jaredallard

Source code is here: https://github.com/cswarm/ck8s

Hey HN! I know this has been done in many different ways before, but I wanted to show off this modpack installer/bundler I created that enables you to build/maintain modpacks as well as install them! This is intended to only be used with the vanilla minecraft launcher, since I find most people prefer that one. Check it out and please leave feedback (aside from why another modpack installer... and other variations of that)!

Hey everyone -- figured people might find this interesting. I wrote a basically "minecraft realms" sort of server that starts the server on join, and informs the users when the server has been "hibernated". Eventually it'll stop it when there is no activity for an amount of time as well.

I don't have anything currently, but I'll see what I can do about getting some sort of announcement list and will ping you. Ideas are welcome!

So it will be just like Plex but it will be more focused on larger media servers or people who want to not care about organizing media, need multiple qualities pre transocded, and etc. I wrote a bigger detail to inimino below about why that decision was made, but it's s3 first class and all about ability to server media globally and scale.

Yeah, probably should.

Yeah, after a few DMCA requests they will ban your account. Usenet is supported and torrents, but that is not intended to be used for copyrighted material. AFAIK s3 doesn't do any scanning, nor would they care, since DMCA safe harbor protects them until they get a notice. There are plenty of options if you do decide to be a pirate to stay safe, but again, I do not encourage or think it's a good idea.

Good points, I should be more descriptive. Jellyfin and co are media centers, they provide the ability to stream media from a hard drive with a nice user interface.

This is for someone who wants to run their media server w/ a lot of users, or someone who wants to be able to run a single server and not have to deal with transcoding to different formats. As of right now, it's not "better" than these others since the frontend isn't finished, but when it's done it'll be better in two main ways; able to scale the frontend, able to reduce global latency by using s3 bucket(s), able to have a full e2e approach to media importing (everything is the same format, same subtitles, same layout by default) usually that has to be done manually by whomever operates a server. It's using k8s so that individual microservices can be scaled using the autoscaler microservice. This allows users to use premptible/spot machine types in their workloads and only pay when they are using them, which makes converting cheap.

High load is users watching a lot of media, to get S3 to work w/ any alternatives you have to run gcsfuse which is expensive to use and a bottleneck when even two people watch different shows. Normly you'd run two or more instances then to load balance, well, with all of these they use sqlite so there is no load balancing capabilities.

Runtime costs are important to anyone who has tried to run a single Plex server in the cloud and had to pay a lot of money to be able to have fast, real-time, on demand transcoding so a user could watch a movie/tv show. Ideally you want to pre encoded all of those, that was the original goal of this project, support that. Now it's turned into a full e2e approach to remove dependency on those media centers that aren't cloud first.

I hope that explains it better, it's a little niche, but for anyone handling a lot of users I think it's useful, either way for me it's useful.

Hi everyone, I'm the lead maintainer and original creator of this project. I'm interested in hearing feedback on my project, which is a microservice oriented alternative to Emby/Jellyfin/Plex/etc that focuses on being scaleable and being cheap to host in the cloud. It solves the ideal use case of being a high load media provider, focusing on runtime costs (encode once, not every time) and being able to handle, of course, high load. Running a media server can be a massive pain, and being able to abstract a lot of that away (autodetecting media names and episode numbers) has saved me a lot of time for my personal collection. Interested to hear anyones thoughts!

probably not a great problem space to enter thanks to the likes of snap and others, but interested to here other peoples thoughts!

In case anyone was wondering, I ended up getting the job :)

I actually live in Seattle right now, and throughout Washington my whole life, which is why I got into programing (thanks Redmond!)

Thank you, I really wanted to hear from people involved in hiring and viewing resumes as that's where I'm most worried it'll fall apart in the future. My plan all along has been to make sure I finish education alongside my work, GED to then college classes if possible. Thanks!!

Clarifying that I didn't get credit because it wasn't adaptable with public school because it had a unschooling approach.

Unfortunately it'd take 1.5 years to finish, or I would ask such a thing. I dropped out because I went to full high school but didn't get credit for two years of it and was not going to make it up. I was a bit reckless.