Show HN: System for Private Data Management

Re:Show HN: System for Private Data Management by chrisweekly on Saturday December 26, 2020 @10:06AM (#25543857)

Cool idea! Thanks for sharing. Wish it weren't in PHP. Not looking a gift horse in the mouth, nor looking to start yet another PHP-bashing thread, nor criticizing your use of whatever lang or fw suits your personal needs -- I get it, this was a personal project and I appreciate your sharing it. But I have a personal aversion to PHP and for that reason I won't be adopting this for my own purposes. But if I ever build a similar system, I'm glad to have yours to reference for inspiration. Slainte!

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Re:Show HN: System for Private Data Management by djohnston on Saturday December 26, 2020 @10:18AM (#25543925)

OOC if you don't intend on actually contributing to the project why would such an implementation detail impact your decision to use it?

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Re:Show HN: System for Private Data Management by chrisweekly on Saturday December 26, 2020 @11:15AM (#25544283)

It's not just an implementation detail! The whole idea is to locally run / manage / extend a system for personal data. I don't want to put PHP at the heart of my private infrastructure. Any such system needs to resonate with the tools and technologies I use and/or want to embrace.

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Re:Show HN: System for Private Data Management by BorisMelnik on Saturday December 26, 2020 @03:11PM (#25546098)

Isn't this more of a proof of concept. I'm pretty sure if it were adopted it would be scrapped and started from scratch anyway.

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Re:Show HN: System for Private Data Management by kordlessagain on Saturday December 26, 2020 @04:25PM (#25546565)

$ find ./ |grep .php |wc

433 (number of files in project with .php extension)

> Isn't this more of a proof of concept.

Was that a question, or a statement of fact?

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Re:Show HN: System for Private Data Management by deanclatworthy on Saturday December 26, 2020 @11:50AM (#25544560)

Or use docker, and then it’s independent of your host environment. This should be a safe environment for people to showcase their work, and your comment was not constructive.

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Re:Show HN: System for Private Data Management by haswell on Saturday December 26, 2020 @12:23PM (#25544808)

It’s completely fair to share one’s reasons behind why a project isn’t for them. Docker doesn’t change any of the fundamental concerns with a PHP based project. It might reduce the amount of direct exposure required, but for a piece of software that is meant to become the virtual center of your life, it’s still completely fair to be unconvinced.

I’d argue that Docker just shifts the problem slightly, while introducing a new set of challenges. It’s unclear if the net benefit is even a positive number.

Even if one doesn’t intend to contribute to the core project, it’s going to be necessary to get a bit intimate with the stack over time: upgrades, the inevitable bug that requires some troubleshooting, etc.

I found the parent comment both reasonable and constructive.

You may not have the same concerns, and that’s perfectly ok.

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Re:Show HN: System for Private Data Management by dariuszW on Saturday December 26, 2020 @01:12PM (#25545182)

Yeah i know You mean, in my case this is fine as this is the stack that I work with.

That's normal, i know some ppl that use Node as Core, some Java as core, each one takes his own stack i guess.

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Re:Show HN: System for Private Data Management by angrais on Saturday December 26, 2020 @03:09PM (#25546085)

How does Docker shift the problem and what new challenges does it introduce?

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Re:Show HN: System for Private Data Management by kreetx on Saturday December 26, 2020 @12:30PM (#25544857)

The parent simply doesn't need the thing itself if the "written in X" matters.

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Re:Show HN: System for Private Data Management by racecar789 on Saturday December 26, 2020 @12:38PM (#25544918)

The commenter has a good heart. Plenty of encouraging sentences. However, the overall comment does come across as an underhanded criticism.

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