abdrehman

Re:Ask HN: What does it take to dodge the cloud? on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @03:00AM (#46202434)

If you have bench marked your applications and setup the off site backup properly. I think its pretty much doable.

Can you please give some more context? Like whats the tech-stack of your Applications? Is it Monolith or Microservice? ETC...

Re:Show HN: A concept for a productivity OS using LXC for client isola... on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @09:20AM (#45026152)

Hi HN,

I just published a blog post about an idea I've been developing to solve a workflow problem I face as a developer juggling multiple clients.

The short version is that using full VMs for each client is resource-heavy and clunky (no notifications, hardware issues), but it provides great isolation.

My post outlines a concept for a "productivity-focused" OS inspired by Qubes, but built on lightweight LXC system containers. The goal is to get the strong isolation benefits without the performance overhead, using a custom desktop environment to handle things like unified notifications and managed hardware access.

I'd love to get this community's feedback. I'm particularly interested in your thoughts on these questions:

  1. Does this problem resonate with other freelancers, consultants, or multi-project developers?

  2. Is using LXC the right approach, or is there a better technology for this?

  3. What's a must-have feature for you if a system like this existed?

Thanks for taking a look!

Show HN: A concept for a productivity OS using LXC for client isolation

Posted by abdrehman on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @09:19AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://abdrehman.com/an-os-for-productivity-using-containerization-to-isolate-client-work/index.html

( Read More... | 2 comments | on HN )

Re:Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew m... on Sunday December 03, 2023 @04:55PM (#38511144)

Apache NIFI.

It should be used more for building Data Pipelines specifically.

Re:How to Run Linux on an ESP32 on Sunday October 08, 2023 @10:07AM (#37810561)

Interesting, will check it out.

Re:Show HN: Unlimited free e-signing service achieves SoC 2 Type II co... on Friday October 06, 2023 @11:32AM (#37792134)

Few days ago I was litterally searching same thing and I was thiking same thing how come there is no solution out there with a reasonable free tier.

I just signed up and I am gonna use it going forward almost everywhere.

I would suggest you should create something pay wahterver you can tier. This can help you get some more funds.

Re:Ask HN: What low code platforms are worth using? on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @10:27AM (#37584584)

Apache NIFI (https://nifi.apache.org/).

It uses the concept of Flow-based programming. Also its so underacknolged but this tool is very flexible. I have used as an Event Bus all the 3rd-Party Integrations.

Re:Ask HN: What low code platforms are worth using? on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @10:20AM (#37584485)

I was about to reply same before solving 99% of world problem. Please look into why your site is taking this much time to load...

Re:Show HN: Multi-Display Screen Sharing with CoScreen by Datadog on Friday March 31, 2023 @06:03PM (#35394287)

+1 for linux

Re:Ask HN: What is the best way to Layoff in a small team? on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @12:30AM (#34704497)

Commenting so I can come back and see HN opinion

Re:Ask HN: How do you balance support and sprint tickets? on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @10:01AM (#34504382)

Nice strategy. I used to be in a large DevOps team and similar startegy was the eventually adopted.

Re:Tell HN: Sometimes you don't realise how bad something is until you... on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:40AM (#34500213)

Been going through something similar. I am commenting to come back to post.

Thanks for posting.

Re:Pakistan power cut: Major cities without electricity after grid bre... on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:05AM (#34499989)

I get really sad when I see my country going down. But at the same time there isn't much that I can do.

Re:Replace CV with Spillcard on Monday November 21, 2022 @03:48AM (#33690334)

Interesting, will check it out

Re:Ask HN: What services/apps are you self-hosting? on Friday November 18, 2022 @12:27PM (#33658182)

I am only self-hosting my VPN. I prefer managed services more because I want my things to work. Like I had given tought to self host Bitwarden but the thing is Password Manager is a backbone and I can aford to loose it.

I am DevOps since 2+ yrs and I have been working in IT for 4+ yrs. I have seen multiple disastors so I am a huge advocate of managed services.

Re:Ask HN: What is your Dev OS in 2022? on Monday November 14, 2022 @02:27AM (#33591114)

KDE Neon. I love KDE Activities I setup a sperate activity for my main job, freelance work and Personal Usage(Non work related). I have seprate Desktop Folder for every activity and Wallpaper. Each Desktop have shortcuts to applications I use for that envirnment.

Also I love Debian 11. Thinking to install KDE with it but I dont have time...