This is a super cool intersection of real world problems and software. How hard has it been to get customers? I assume trust is a big hurdle here. How are you approaching this problem?
Thank you! You've definitely identified the trickiest part, especially when you come in with a track record of, well...0 deliveries (I was in working in tech teams before this). Luckily, there are quite a few freight brokers in the NYC metro area, and they are willing to give you a trial period. Another way to approach is to work with smaller companies and offer discounts during the startup phase. (We're starting deliveries in August)
I’m surprised it had a server minimum. Seems like it should architecturally scale from 1 to whatever. But I guess it isn’t as simple as the front page makes it seem. I assumed it works like a simple distributed compute and storage system
It's not real enforced minimum, only "minimum against server failure". You can run it on one server, but you won't get distributed failover storage (something like RAID).
That was just the KV part, but it’s all built on top of Riak core and compute which does end up looking for like k8s. But yeah the reason I asked is because I stumbled upon it and wanted to know if it’s basically dead
Really enjoy using pdm. Might make the move when there’s more maturity on uv, but for now it does the job and I just switched from pipenv to pdm. Too many changes too often.
When I would be excited for is an actual LSP alternative to pylance. Pylance is basically a proprietary monopoly. Kind of crazy for Python to not have its own high performance LSP.
You could try something like sampleprograms.io
Generally looking up new programming languages gets you a whole lot of nothing, so it’s best to just try to jump into looking for samples instead.
I feel like you’re getting a lot of pushback on this and I’m going to go out and say this is cool and I’m glad people continue to try to innovate on the webdev experience.
The way I see it is building apps somewhat similarly to SwiftUI is actually a pretty good idea. If you have established rules for how each container expands or fills its content you can build a great web app development experience without getting down into css and html explicitly. Just Vbox container Hbox container text container etc. I can certainly see a niche for this as it is a different style of UI development.
I’ve never been great as a UI designer so doing it in the traditional web stack has always been even harder but I’ve found that with SwiftUI I can usually get 90% of a good look very quickly.
I spend 95% of my work time doing backend python microservices for internal tools, 5% on terraform for the infrastructure, and 0.0001% of my time building frontends for these tools (I just use plain html and JS, and only add a frontend when absolutely necessary). I've build a react app for fun in the past just to learn how that works but if I had to do it again for work I would basically have to go through the entire learning process again.
So, something like this where I'm writing pure python for my web components could really save me a lot of that churn time, not to mention that many of my coworkers have absolutely no JS experience. I have an upcoming task to build a new frontend and am going to add in a couple days to try this out to see if it meets our needs.
I’m also super interested in this kind of question. The late Soviet Union and their cybernetics research were really into simulating this kind of stuff to improve the planned economy. But I’m curious if something like this can be done on a more local scale, to improve things like a single company output.
If its not a secret, do you mind sharing what the use case is? I'm curious because my thoughts originally were that this would be useful when running something that takes more than the trivial few minutes to finish.
So I'm actually doing web browser automation via llm agents. So prompting to browser automation like "go to this webpage and do this". I have an algorithm for classifying html and then i'm generating "behaviors" to interact with it for each bot. The behaviors the llm generates are actually in a superset language that i parse the ASTs with lark. In the lark parsing the behaviors (like web scraping or element interactions) need to be stopped if the user says to do something else or stop or restart them...and man it's been a pain getting them to stop and clean up in a memory efficient way. Right now starting asyncio coroutines and canceling them are the best way ive found since a lot of this is async (using playwright)
Wow that’s an actual use case! Pretty cool stuff. Unfortunately I think getting this code to run with asyncio would be a lot more work since there’s a lot more to consider. I guess it also depends on how stateful the coroutines are. The less state the easier it should be to use my jump method to do what you want.
haha yea i've been really enjoying this project. In terms of statefulness. It is quite a stateful coroutine. I will play around with it and see if i can get it working. Would be nice to use a more goto like method than raising exceptions. Thanks for your work
