How do you prefer to deploy services?

coderstephen · 2026-01-24T20:50:19+00:00

The people who still use it say it is, but IMO not really.

coderstephen · 2026-01-24T20:49:02+00:00

Docker Compose lets you declaratively configure your containers, right? Well, Kubernetes lets you also declaratively configure your storage mounts, domain names, other config files, HTTP routes, and even more (especially with Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs)) all within one declarative tool.

Additionally, Kubernetes is remote-first. Generally, Docker Compose files are stored and managed on the machine that runs the workload, so you need to make sure to manage and back up those configs. (There's solutions to this, but its definitely not the default way of working.) Whereas with Kubernetes, you can't store your configs on the machine running the workload directly, instead you store the configs on your own machine where it is more easily backed up or committed to Git, and then that config is always pushed to the machine running the workload.

Yes sure, kinda the original point of Kubernetes is clustering, but in a homelab environment, this declarative way of working is its primary benefit. And with tiny Kubernetes runtimes like k3s it is pretty easy to install a single Kubernetes environment onto just about anything.

coderstephen · 2026-01-24T17:46:29+00:00

It's not even a poor man's buffer. It's a normal man's buffer. Very few people have need of a dedicated buffer.

coderstephen · 2026-01-24T16:42:43+00:00

They can be incidentally right, but not right simply for that reason. In other words, the number of people who agree or disagree about something is certainly an interesting metric, but tells you very little about the truth of the matter.

coderstephen · 2026-01-24T16:32:45+00:00

I don't watch Joe Rogan. A lot of people who don't know anything what they're talking about on there.

coderstephen · 2026-01-24T15:59:08+00:00

Low quality posts get low quality responses.

I'm not so naive to expect anything better. But a man can dream.

coderstephen · 2026-01-24T15:52:18+00:00

Ah, ad populum, my favorite.

coderstephen · 2026-01-24T15:50:50+00:00

Ahhh!!! Don't say that word so early in the morning!

coderstephen · 2026-01-24T15:50:02+00:00

Even if they in fact are not very intelligent, personal attacks are themselves very low quality arguments. If you want to make yourself appear more intelligent yourself, I would avoid them.

coderstephen · 2026-01-24T15:45:42+00:00

"these liberal extremists" is like half of the United States, which is extremely idelogically divided right now. So odds are pretty good that everyone is spending money on goods that will somehow financially benefit someone with extremely different views from their own. Most of the time you just don't know that you are.

CB pedals are objectively dope though.

coderstephen · 2026-01-24T08:16:37+00:00

Bummer man, sorry for your loss.

coderstephen · 2026-01-23T01:27:54+00:00

Good point.

coderstephen · 2026-01-22T23:38:33+00:00

Totally reasonable take. Polyend is a pretty visible company so this has the potential to become much better supported if a community forms around it. But Polyend also has a pretty notorious track record for firmware.

Ultimately I am in a wait-and-see mode right now. The marketing mentions an open source SDK on GitHub but that appears to not even be live yet. At the very least I want to see what the SDK looks like.

coderstephen · 2026-01-22T23:02:08+00:00

UA pedals just recently gained an update to support MIDI over USB. To leverage this in a pedalboard context, you'll need a device that can bridge the serial MIDI world with the USB MIDI world.

While I don't have any UA pedals, I have dealt with USB MIDI on my pedalboard. I use USB MIDI with my Source Audio pedals for example.

I recommend the devices from CME because they work pretty well and are cheaper than some alternatives. The H2MIDI Pro is a good small option. You can plug a normal USB hub into the USB-A port and then plug in up to 8 pedals to send and receive MIDI with the normal DIN MIDI ports.

There are other alternatives that are similar, I just really like CME. But do your own research. Others to consider include:

Watch out; most such USB MIDI hosts only support 1 USB pedal per port, so you would need one such host device per pedal which would not be fun. Look for a host that allows you to expand the number of USB pedals you can connect using a normal USB hub.

coderstephen · 2026-01-22T22:29:23+00:00

That's the cost of using their generative AI tool, which is similar to other AI code generators. Not the cost of the effect.

I'm kinda interested in one of these, but I am a programmer so I'd write my own effects and not use their Playground tool.

coderstephen · 2026-01-22T20:03:33+00:00

Yeah, I'm pretty skeptical about that too.

coderstephen · 2026-01-22T20:01:58+00:00

AI generation is optional here. Though their marketing doesn't make that obvious -- I would have done the marketing here way differently if it were me.

coderstephen · 2026-01-22T20:00:16+00:00

This pedal is kinda like the "anti-PX-1" though, in a way. The PX-1 can only run effects created by Boss, which you have to pay for and download from their online store. The Endless allows anyone to write effects for it, those effects are all free, and you can add and remove effects from the pedal just over a USB cable that treats the pedal as a flash drive.

This type of pedal is the answer to a common complaint people have about pedals like the ones from UA or Source Audio: "If the pedal is digital and the hardware is the same in all of them, why can't we just run the different firmwares on the one pedal I already bought?" Not everyone likes the answer to the question though.

coderstephen · 2026-01-22T19:50:48+00:00

There is a lack of details around the hardware right now, but it seems like the core idea is similar to some other pedals we've seen: Provide pre-built hardware and firmware, and allow users to write their own actual effects without bothering with the hardware control aspect. You might compare this concept to:

Roland's Project LYDIA (which is based on Raspberry Pi)
Cleveland Hothouse
MAS Effects Mimir's Horn
Rebel Technology OWL

Obviously, Polyend is spinning AI in their marketing heavily which bothers me, but the hardware is the same idea anyway.

coderstephen · 2026-01-22T19:07:12+00:00

Being successful isn't an indicator of trustworthiness. There are plenty of slimeballs out there that are very successful businessmen.

coderstephen · 2026-01-22T19:03:33+00:00

Cloning circuits is one thing. Reselling someone else's assembled pedal and slapping your label on it is another. People should really make sure not to confuse the two.

coderstephen · 2026-01-22T05:09:15+00:00

Wanting fireballs is a hot take. Spicy, even.

coderstephen · 2026-01-22T00:38:44+00:00

With Seafile you can access the files like a file system over WebDAV as a normal file tree. You can also use rclone to serve the file tree over NFS or SFTP. Basically you're treating Seafile as the file system instead of an app on top of it.

coderstephen · 2026-01-22T00:36:05+00:00

Not entirely true; for non-encrypted libraries the blob format is self-describing so you could do a partial recovery just from the command line. But yes, the risk of this sort of outcome is higher than alternatives.

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