brianjlogan
Speed to load, the specific use case I want which is just to load up near me and see a performant map I can browse.
The other links were either projects, games, or apps that did the same with older map projections that performed poorly for me.
KubeCon over the last couple of years was showing the market was a glut with Observability vendors which is just time series and log management. (traces are logs with a span id).
I'd very much recommend a more modern log stack than a traditional syslog server.
There are many articles covering the limitations of Syslog. Better to replace that component by utilities like OpenTelemetry and JSON structured logging.
You can run a single binary version of Loki https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/get-started/deployment-...
Or use something like the Otel collector to send your logs to a remote host.
I have done my fair share of rsyslog and syslog-ng.
I would not say a "Syslog" server belongs in a modern stack.
It would be an untenable liability to be having around them especially the public. Some of the chassis were there for years.
I'm nowhere near an expert but I can tell you why I decided to try starting a cooperative.
Unfortunately it's an LLC and I don't have cooperative bylaws yet because so far YAGNI holds because you've got to have load bearing revenue otherwise nobody is interested. Additionally Florida doesn't have a cooperative structure that's typical for the consulting service model as far as I am aware.
I tried reaching out to some national cooperative support orgs in DC but after a zoom intro call they generally just ignored me.
My approach was to stay small and not try to convince a bunch of investors but rather try guerilla marketing as a solo founder.
I've done a fair amount of cold calling, some personal networking. I've picked up a handful of clients but it's still growing slowly.
I get resumes constantly from talented folks interested in the model but I can't find enough clients to make that contracting model work.
It seems like the SMB market just doesn't have an appetite for these services. I'm currently trying to learn more about the enterprise marketing and sales process.(Most of my experience is at this scale, my erroneous assumption was that I could get some white papers in SMB for selling into the enterprise).
I'm also trying to develop a SaaS Product to solve a specific business need to hopefully drive enough revenue to be enticing for new members.
https://kinkoda.com The website is a little out of date I've stopped pursuing general IT Consulting services to focus on just developing software projects.
I know it's seems very naive and "vision over reality" to do a cooperative making the venture even more difficult. I think it's important that somebody figures out how to make it competitive.
I'd like to posit a couple of ideas on why they could be an effective market competitor.
There are existing small consultancies and companies with very talented individuals doing work in the economy and collecting on the demand for those services. There's lots to say about AI but let's pretend for the sake of a conversation that this is still tenable.
A cooperative offers the idea of more distributed responsibility, better work life balance, more of an incentive for collaboration and communication, and the opportunity to have a say in the leadership decisions necessary for long term success.
You have so many companies start out with VC (I'm aware we're on HN here), race to market, usually IPO after some success, and then the PE team marches in and cut to make things actually business viable to extract value.
You of course still have to raise capital but my intent was to be able to offer corporate bonds to do so without diluting member ownership.
Of course customers don't care about ethics they care about quality and price signaling, but I think coops have a competitive edge that members will be more committed to working on overhead costs and work quality if they have a share of the profits in the long run.
I know many customers, including here on HN that are exhausted with the rug pulling that occurs with software companies racing to their market cap.
I know many people in the market who refuse to commit more than the bare minimum to their job output because there's zero incentive for them to do so.
Additionally we see many examples where time to market isn't as important as "getting it right" with the product. Companies going private to make important sacrifices for the sake of vision, and small orgs with strong leaders producing awesome results because of the excellent culture and leadership values.
I'm not pitching anything to anyone on here just excited to talk about something I'm very passionate about.
Additionally I think the link here is something I've considered as well.
It's actually not impossible to create what is being proposed since it has been done elsewhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
However it required a lot of collaboration, creating cooperative banks, and other supportive structures.
I've been wondering if something on the distributed web and potentially a framework for agents to help facilitate the coordination and business between orgs interested in this micro economy.
My thoughts were something on AtProto or similar to automate some of the discovery and lead communication process.
I'm mostly working on and thinking about these things in isolation so I'd love to connect with folks working on it as well.
Since we're talk Coops. If you're a coop I know of a team creating a Patreon competitor for individuals and coops. https://comradery.co/
I'd imagine every great(in scale/importance) uprising/political tumult had some aspect of "but they're ruining everything!"
Everything for intellectuals and people with ties to the system that was functioning for that minority.
Coal miners don't care that international students aren't coming to the US anymore. That's not an important factor for them.
Edit: My point here is that you don't need hindsight to see how this aligns with historic precedent.
I shared earlier in the thread about the learning app I'm working on. I already have a learning path created in it for Formal Methods. I will be taking each of your points and tracking my progress to completing them.
Just wanted you to know your effort won't be unappreciated.
As someone lacking your academic background in it could you give me some advice on a good starting point, or perhaps papers/materials that are absolutely unskippable/foundational to understanding it, maybe a good learning exercise for utilizing FM?
(Even if you're hand writing people are going to assume or suspect it's LLM gen.)
https://github.com/vangourd/g8r
The pub/sub model was so much FASTER than the Ansible push methodology.
I'll check your repo out for sure
https://github.com/calfonso/rusternetes
I picked Rust as my language before the AI hype in popularity so I'm biased on k8s tooling in my focus language.
Cool project!
Casual browsing of a .env is probably my top pet peeve of coding agents.
Everytime a secret gets slurped into an API I have to go roll secrets.
Does this tool solve that use case?
I'll check it out. Thanks for sharing.
I think you're smart to spin it out to its own thing because I tend to use them differently batching my chores into a time gate and then using my "chore list" to know what needs to be done. And also the notifications for chores tend to distract from "Important one time task you don't want to forget".
I'd consider paying for this if the app was well done and reasonably priced.
Coop I'm trying to bootstrap. Interested in building tooling and experimenting to make Sociocracy viable. No VC, No external investment, other than mulling Coop bonds for capital raising capability. https://kinkoda.com
Feel free to contact me via the web forms if you have experience launching apps or platforms like this or you're just interested in discussing the product.
I'm a Dad homeschooling a son and have a dog in the race of making parental guided education easier.
I have an Alpha user who's a PhD and makes courses but I still want diverse feedback.