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Very cool! This is a great example of how ephemeral environments can help for a lot more than just fast inner loops or manual verification.

XMPP was supposed to be this. There was a boom in the early to mid-2010s (I worked at HipChat back then, and it was built on top of XMPP). IMO, it works well; it scales, but none of the commercial solutions picked up for whatever reason. In the end, as you say, proprietary protocols like WhatsApp or Slack won the market.

I've heard great things about Matrix. Peeble's founder, Eric, was building Beeper, a chat app with a similar purpose to what you describe (it recently got acquired by Wordpress). I believe that the core was built on top of Matrix, so you might be up to something there.

I second this, the SF Public Libraries are a great place to work. I used to work out of the Potrero Hill branch a lot.

The main library (the one by the Civic Center) closes way later than the rest. Good spot if you're working alone.

I love reading these "reports from the field"; I always pick up a thing or two. Thanks for sharing @ianvonseggern!

Every time I read about Nomad, I wonder the same. I swear I'm not trolling here, I honestly don't get how running Nomad is simpler than Kubernetes. Especially considering that there are substantially more resources and help on Kubernetes than Nomad.

I agree with @metaltyphoon on this. Even for small teams, a managed version of Kubernetes takes away most of the pain. I've used both ECS+Fargate and Kubernetes, but these days, I prefer Kubernetes mainly because the ecosystem is way bigger, both vendor and open source. Most of the problems we run into are always one search or open source project away.

I really like the "remote"/ "on-site" / "hybrid" filter. Good job!

The most significant value I get from Costco is that the quality is consistently high and the options are well curated. I like not having to go through 100s of brands of basic staples like yogurt, toilet paper, milk, etc...

I agree is early, but the same thought around WASM crossed my mind. Interesting approach though

@blakesterz what kind of pain are you feeling when developing with containers on a Mac vs using your Linux box? I know perf is worse, but are you hitting other things?