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I'm a dual Australian / Canadian citizen. I'm disappointed Australia hasn't been more active in their support for Canada. Commonwealth countries should be sticking together.
Re:Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs on Monday June 29, 2026 @12:06PM (#48721054)
if you like bash web apps, you'll love https://github.com/cablehead/http-sh
Re:A Faster Alternative to Jq on Monday March 30, 2026 @11:04AM (#47575259)
Something I find myself saying a lot, Nushell is a better `jq` than `jq`
The original sin wasn't reactivity. It was putting state in the wrong place. Making the client state heavy. It's been downhill since then. Now you need to duplicate state handling between your frontend language and your backend language. Which leads to "isomorphic" backends seeming like a good idea.
Re:Releasing Fjall 3.0 on Friday January 02, 2026 @12:21PM (#46467039)
I'm using fjall v2 in the Rust event streaming store, cross.stream (`xs`) https://github.com/cablehead/xs

`xs` is for personal scale so fjall is fairly overkill performance-wise. marvin_j97's benchmark work and deep dives into different database systems is incredible though. Looking forward to updating to v3.

Re:Mock – An API creation and testing utility: Examples on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @10:39AM (#45824040)
If you like lo-fi ways to attach cli commands to http end-points, you may also like:

- https://github.com/cablehead/http-nu or for POSIX - https://github.com/cablehead/http-sh

Re:Blinksy on Friday October 10, 2025 @01:09PM (#45541242)
astroturf campaign?
Re:I Switched from Htmx to Datastar on Friday October 10, 2025 @11:55AM (#45540378)
My understanding is Turbo is more aligned with htmx. Common practice in Turbo are generally patterns of last resort in Datastar.

e.g. Datastar prescribes a single long lived SSE endpoint that owns the state for the currently connected user's view of the world / app, while common practice in Turbo is to have many small endpoints that return a fragment of html when requested by the client.

Re:I Switched from Htmx to Datastar on Friday October 10, 2025 @10:52AM (#45539754)
The preferred pattern addresses your concern about scattered logic: a single long-lived SSE endpoint that "owns" the user's view of the app. That endpoint updates their field of view as appropriate - very much inspired by game dev's immediate mode rendering.

I've a tutorial that demonstrates this with Nushell as the backend: https://datastar-todomvc.cross.stream

An interesting characteristic of Datastar: it's very opinionated about the shape of your backend but extremely unopinionated about how you implement that shape.

Re:Show HN: ut – Rust based CLI utilities for devs and IT on Monday October 06, 2025 @08:38AM (#45490707)
I'm curious, what do you think is missing from Caddy that has you looking for something new?
Re:Show HN: ut – Rust based CLI utilities for devs and IT on Sunday October 05, 2025 @09:44PM (#45486882)
I maintain a Rust-based CLI HTTP server that embeds Nushell. It’s a handy little Swiss-army knife that’s replaced Nginx and Caddy for my personal projects.

You can serve a folder of static assets like this:

http-nu :3021 '{|req| .static "www" $req.path}'

https://github.com/cablehead/http-nu

Re:Dumb Pipe on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @10:09AM (#44723591)
The approach you describe requires host to have an open ssh port you can access. quic + nat hole punching works around this.
Re:I'm Unsatisfied with Easing Functions on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @01:30PM (#44584831)
The friction Dave describes where changing one param effects all the other params in an animation brought to mind this section of an old Bret Victor talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-OyoVcbwWE&t=716s
A basic use case, to tie it back to the topic :)

When I'm working on a remote machine, it's nice to be able to easily pass things back and forth between it and my local laptop. I start a stream on the remote server and use `dumbpipe` to make the stream available on my local laptop.

```

# remote

xs serve ./store --expose :3001 ; dumbpipe listen-tcp --host 127.0.0.1:3001

# local

dumbpipe connect-tcp --addr 127.0.0.1:3001 <ticket>

$env.XS_ADDR ":3001" ; .cat

```

I can then do things like:

```

# local

cat local.file | .append local.file

# remote

.head local.file | .cas

```

Or register a local handler for the topic "pasteboard" that puts the contents on my local clipboard. Then, from the remote machine, I can run: `"foo" | .append pasteboard`

Iroh is intriguing. Dumbpipe is magical, and its implementation is easy to understand. I use dumbpipe daily to expose cross-stream (https://github.com/cablehead/xs) stores I run on different servers to my local laptop's `xs` client.
Re:Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf? on Monday May 12, 2025 @08:39AM (#43962272)
I'm finding I increasingly produce entire changesets without opening an editor: just `claude code`, or my own cobbled-together version of `claude code`, and `git diff` to preview what's happening. For me, the future of these tools isn't "inside" a text editor. If you want to poke around, my “cobbled‑together Claude Code” lives here: https://github.com/cablehead/gpt2099.nu
Re: on Thursday November 07, 2024 @02:21PM (#42079914)
Noting Codebuff is manicode renamed.

It's become my go-to tool for handling fiddly refactors. Here’s an example session from a Rust project where I used it to break a single file into a module directory.

https://gist.github.com/cablehead/f235d61d3b646f2ec1794f656e...

Notice how it can run tests, see the compile error, and then iterate until the task is done? Really impressive.

For reference, this task used ~100 credits

Re:Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework? on Thursday January 11, 2024 @12:10PM (#38955147)
> As they should! Building with htmx works a lot better if you play to its strengths. You can send JSON-formatted form bodies, if you really insist. But you shouldn’t!

This excellent essay overlooked a '*':

* unless you are using bash + jq for your backend, in which case, JSON-formatted form bodies are quite reasonable.

Re:I quit my job to work full time on my open source project on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @12:52PM (#38941166)
This is fantastic. I'd love to live in a world populated by tens of thousands of incredible, practical projects like Atuin, whose maintainers earn a good living. Best of luck, Ellie!
Re:Show HN: A Dalle-3 and GPT4-Vision feedback loop on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @11:08AM (#38461184)
Yeah, I'm finding it difficult to create a prompt which doesn't result in Error: 400 Your request was rejected as a result of our safety system. Your prompt may contain text that is not allowed by our safety system.

Even when I don't think I'm attempting particular weird instructions!

Re:Hyper v1: protective and efficient HTTP for all on Friday November 17, 2023 @01:35PM (#38307880)
For anyone else immediately caught out by the separation of http1 and http2 builders in Hyper v1: auto negotiation is still available via hyper-utils:

https://github.com/hyperium/hyper-util/blob/v0.1.0/src/serve...

Re:Hyper v1: protective and efficient HTTP for all on Friday November 17, 2023 @01:27PM (#38307750)
This is great. Thank you for all your hard work Sean!
Re:The little-told story about the BART seat-slashing gang on Thursday October 12, 2023 @08:50AM (#37856458)
I'm not sure if it's still the case since we moved away a few years ago, but the 24th St BART escalator used to be in a constant repair loop. It would get fixed for a short period, operate for about a month, and then go back to being out of service. Made me question if a similar scheme was in operation.

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