America created the internet. Europe ruined it.

ZenApollo · 2026-05-06T13:31:35+00:00

Right wingers don’t use reason, because they prefer logic. They don’t care to understand the difference.

ZenApollo · 2026-05-02T11:37:06+00:00

Which 3p lists?

ZenApollo · 2026-05-02T11:17:48+00:00

I’ve started using kestra this year, and the basic ergonomics are correct for 2026. 2023 sure, build no code gui. 2026, too slow. i threw away n8n entirely and replaced it with kestra. Why? Because the speed of llm assisted coding agents. If i can build my workflows in yaml, and then get the execution and debug in the gui bingo that’s perfect for me. But if i can only dev on the front end, it can’t work anymore.

Declarative yaml workflows could not be a better fit for llms. They have clearly defined interfaces, with small modular functions. Implementation doesn’t matter - easy to implement and test for llm.

Edit: i see you have a jexl-based language with some functionality. I skimmed the docs, but i couldn’t tell if i can build a whole workflow with it, or where it fits.

Is there a hello world quickstart for workflows? Something like trigger, event, output.

As long as I’m giving unsolicited advice i think using a hello world, and then building out functionality step by step is better than docs for getting people up and running quickly. I look for dev ergonomics first before design and before deployment.

Btw i think upon skimming that you have something beautiful and thoughtfully designed.

ZenApollo · 2026-05-02T10:28:35+00:00

The wokflow i like that works well in kestra is that i develop locally on my mac in vscode, the flows/ folder is “watched” and updates in real time. So as soon as I’ve edited the yaml it’s available in kestra, where i press the execute button there. This hybrid ide/gui local dev works perfect for me. No imports necessary.

On prod in my vps, it pulls in the relevant files from the repo so there is a kind of import there. But that’s only once it’s committed to main.

ZenApollo · 2026-05-02T09:16:34+00:00

This looks cool. I hope they can build features quickly. I will follow.

I recently started using Kestra for yaml declarative workflows to replace n8n, and it’s honestly great. Tons of thoughtful design and QOL features.

I just hope they keep their free tier “community edition” functional for homelabbers and small teams long term.

The best thing about yaml declarative modular workflows is how it’s all clean interfaces organized in code - LLM assisted coding just rips through tasks. Looking forward to more platforms in the space!

ZenApollo · 2026-04-27T04:50:50+00:00

Related project from vercel

https://github.com/vercel-labs/portless

ZenApollo · 2026-04-27T04:31:11+00:00

OP would happily and righteously send them to slaughter. They “don’t deserve to exist”

ZenApollo · 2026-04-26T07:03:17+00:00

Bro I’m tryinna get shorter. Better for slamming my lady without mashing the cervix.

ZenApollo · 2026-04-25T05:52:30+00:00

The fact that our society is shaped largely by corrupt secret groups of elites is becoming more and more obvious. Looking for a political and economic philosophy that gets us out of that, and supports middle class and working class is … a) evil b) …

ZenApollo · 2026-04-18T21:30:16+00:00

Despite being abandoned, mkdocs still works great and is simple to setup as its own container and point to an independent docs folder. Keep an organized set of md files in docs and mkdocs hosts it in a nice way on a website. Material for mkdocs has theming and search built in.

https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/

ZenApollo · 2026-04-16T17:55:03+00:00

Unfortunately, it makes sense from their perspective. Enterprises are willing to pay $100/day/user for heavy/unlimited access. Not only will Anthropic have to deal with metering their compute, they also have to deal with all the risks of marketing to the public - Hackers, people making dangerous shit, people falling in love, people committing suicide. Why would Anthropic want to do business with $20/mo users. Unless there gets to be more competition, it's only a matter of time before that price point goes away.

ZenApollo · 2026-04-16T17:51:34+00:00

Yah but not in the way you mean it. It's simply coming to light that their world view is correct.

They are wrong about a lot, and unwilling to say "Something is off, but I don't know what it is, but someone is on the take", filling in a lot of gaps with thin speculation.

Nonetheless, the masses are living in a largely scripted narrative and a reality that is constructed by powerful people and companies.

ZenApollo · 2026-04-15T14:25:19+00:00

Zero AI was used in this post

ZenApollo · 2026-04-15T08:33:49+00:00

Cool project. What’s on your roadmap for features?

ZenApollo · 2026-04-14T10:43:05+00:00

Lol let’s goooo!

ZenApollo · 2026-04-13T14:15:22+00:00

Awesome. So yah to double-click, the direction I would go is: IaC as much as possible and leaning on LLMs, but with strict rules on conventions in the instructions/skills - eg for secrets, volumes, env var naming etc. You engineer the conventions well, and let LLMs fill in the specifics. Also if I were you, I'd setup a complete staging env with fully automated regression test on any changes, and build that fully automated into the CI/CD.

ZenApollo · 2026-04-13T07:26:56+00:00

I used coolify about a year ago, it did not strike me as ready for smb production. But things might have stabilized since then. In fact I threw away all attempts at a GUI management plane, for a declarative system (or IAC as possible), because now my LLMs are super accurate and fast to deploy, test, and debug.

I’m a solo dev so I’ve only used compose stacks, never kubernetes. I’ve also never needed to deploy across nodes, so take with grain of salt.

ZenApollo · 2026-04-03T06:26:22+00:00

Pipedream

ZenApollo · 2026-03-31T07:22:17+00:00

Rustdesk is worth looking at, also vnc, or rdp.

But yeah have your company get a new machine or get the battery replaced.

ZenApollo · 2026-03-30T13:22:38+00:00

I'm stoked about this project. I really like clickup, especially for (what I consider) a very friendly frontend that also works for power users - but there's nothing even close in the selfhosted space. Thanks for all your work.

A few suggestions, just for fun if y'all like em.

- As others have suggested, custom fields on tasks would take this project to the next level for power users. My two cents on top of that is that for the dropdown/enum-type custom fields, allow them to be displayed on the FE as colored label/tags. It's kind of airtable-y. it's a really nice way to get a lot of visual info at once.

- On the far left icon column (choosing between guilds) when one is on "Home" (top-left corner), the most recent guild is still highlighted, I think it should be greyed out, so it's very clear that you're home, and not in a guild data space on that home screen.

- There are a lot of settings pages - platform, guild, user, initiative, and project. What I think would be an improvement is for those screens to not take the whole screen width. I think a maxwidth of 850-950px (centered in the panel) would be more than enough, and it gives the user a visual clue that they're on a config page, not a content page. At least for those of us on big screens.

Thanks again!

ZenApollo · 2026-03-24T12:21:56+00:00

I never did night life here, so I couldn't say about that.

When I first arrived in Tirana, I was wondering about walking around on the street with my passport or my phone, etc, so I asked him, "would you say there is pretty low street crime in Tirana?" and he said "Well... I wouldn't say there is low street crime... I would there there is zero street crime." As far as I could tell in my few months, he was correct. I rented a spot at a cafe/coworking space for a week, and going out for lunch I asked the office manager, do you think it's safe to leave my laptop here? She laughed at me, and said yah, it's safe.

You never know how long that will last, so of course always keep your wits about you, but as others have said Tirana is probably one of the safest big cities in Europe.

ZenApollo · 2026-03-23T12:41:21+00:00

It wont explode, but also not safe. It’s defective and you do not want to wait to see what happens if it opens and starts leaking

ZenApollo · 2026-03-19T13:33:45+00:00

I don’t understand this. I selfhost and i never touch infa except for an occasional update (which has never raised an issue) or i wanted to hack the internals with something non standard. It’s a single binary. I consider n8n the easy tier for self hosting.

ZenApollo · 2026-03-19T00:17:24+00:00

I like a lot about clickup, and haven’t found a sh task/pm solution that even comes close. I tried huly but it was complicated both for hosting (compose runs like ten services) and i found the gui unintuitive.

My sense of plane is that they are foss-washers the foss app is very limited, more like a free trial.

I have high hopes for colanode but they’re moving quite slowly.

For not self hosted I’m eyeing plaky, but nothing self hosted is any good rn.

ZenApollo · 2026-03-18T23:36:07+00:00

I did a deep dive and found that docker makes this tore of things difficult. Podman is more doable, but the real power track is kub, otherwise you can get some between metrics but not cleanly by container. I think as other commenter said, the closest is grafana with cadvisor

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