Hi! Thanks for offering an AMA here. I don't have a specific question, but I am interested in hearing about the general story of what it was like developing Docker, what the experience was like trying to build a business around it, and what you're up to these days in post-Docker life. Thanks in advance!

It's difficult to tell the whole story in a HN comment, but if you're interested, I did share my experience in a few podcasts over the years. Here are a few that I could find on youtuve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVED44sb7zg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSlHvz57RKs

I also recently discovered a trove of my old presentations, retracing my early obsession with the same problem, and my repeated failed attempts to get people to care. I shared some of them in a talk a few weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huRfsLMK5sA

Interested Canadian here! Don't see your email on your profile, mind sharing a link as a reply here? Thanks!

+1 to that. As a user, I am tired of having to sign up for an account on a SaaS website or installing an app from Github, only to realize the UI isn't a good fit for me. This will usually result in me bouncing from the app website instead of trying it out.

Suggestion: have a non-login demo available on your website, and high-res screenshots/animed gif of the app in action on your Github repo.

Thanks to your feedback, I've added a non-login demo! https://hyperclast.com/demo/

Thanks for being receptive to the feedback :-) I actually checked out your demo now because it didn't require a login, and was impressed by what I saw. Nice work here!

> Do CachyOS optimizations actually make any difference whatsoever? I know they enable certain optimization flags whenever building software, but that doesn't directly equate to performance improvements unless you're actually benchmarking and testing it.

I switched from Windows 11 to Kubuntu a year ago, and then gave CachyOS a shot after hearing praise for it. I'm on a laptop with an AMD iGPU, and CachyOS's `znver4` optimized repos gave a significant bump on my Geekbench results:

(Note: these results are from almost a year ago though)

Lenovo Thinkpad P14s Gen4 AMD

- Windows 11: 2366 Single-Core Score, 10717 Multi-Core Score

- Kubuntu: 2496 Single-Core Score, 9878 Multi-Core Score

- CachyOS: 2569 Single-Core Score, 11563 Multi-Core Score

Repeat tests were essentially the same (Win11 23xx/107xx, Kubuntu 24xx/98xx, Cachy 25xx/115xx)

That's actually pretty great!

Have you observed any changes in your day-to-day usage, such as faster compilation times? If it's actually decently faster I might try it instead of playing with Gentoo to get better-optimized compilation flags.

I haven't benchmarked anything other than the initial tests with Geekbench. That said, it subjectively felt "snappier"/faster in terms of UI speed with KDE Plasma than Kubuntu. I've been a happy CachyOS user since.

> This all started by trying to build an alt-protocol like Gemini or Gopher as a minimal writing and publishing experience.

I took the briefest of looks at the Gopher/Gemini/alt-publishing scene and found it interesting (though I went no further than surface level research). I'd be interested in hearing more about where this experimentation took you!

I love this idea. There are so many use-cases where friends or clients need a simple interface for building a quick wiki-style documentation site. I've often suggested static site generators desktop apps like Publii to them before, but even that can be a bit on the heavy-side in terms of their requirements.

First feature request: auto light/dark theme adjustment.

First bug report: when I tried adding authentication to a test site, I received this error:

  Failed to enable protection: Failed to execute 'atob' on 'Window': The string to be decoded is not correctly encoded.

Keep up the good work!

Thanks for the bug report! Will take a look at that.

Nice! Dr. Horrible would be proud of this geeky tribute:

  > tracepath -m60 bad.horse
  [...]
  16:  bad.horse                                            81.233ms asymm 10
  19:  he.rides.across.the.nation                           85.365ms asymm 11
  20:  he.got.the.application                               96.067ms asymm 13
  23:  it.needs.evaluation                                 112.377ms asymm 15
  24:  a.heinous.crime                                     114.826ms asymm 17
  25:  a.show.of.force                                     120.842ms asymm 18
  26:  bad.horse                                           133.089ms asymm 20

I have to agree... the linked Github files look like pretty generic config structures you'd find in projects, regardless of the tool or specification.

For the last month or so, the AUR package repositories for Arch Linux have been the target of DDoS attacks. Today, the repos are down again.

More info: https://archlinux.org/news/recent-services-outages/

Grav isn't a static site generator though like this project is, and requires PHP I believe?

This project is marketing itself as a CMS which it is not.

I would even say vanilla Wordpress without plugins isn’t a CMS, even though it does come close. It’s more like a blog management system with some extra bells and whistles.

I'm confused why you wouldn't consider this (or vanilla Wordpress) a CMS? Are not both of these products, um, content management systems?

In which way does a generator manage content? The user manages content on the file system / git. A static site does not manage anything.

Wordpress is really more of a blog management system with page editing features. It doesn’t work well with different types of content, it’s geared for articles and ”pages”. How would you use it to build a site where a lot of content comes from some other background system, say NewsML feeds for example? It is possible, but you can only import the content as posts, and you only have one schema for what a post contains.

I think you should re-read the OP's original link again. Aether is not just an SSG, and its admin interface provides a CMS interface.

And I'm afraid your definition of a CMS is your own, and not the consensus. A CMS doesn't need to consume external sources, it can be self contained content.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system

”The integrated static site generator isn't bolted on, it's fundamental to the design.”

A Markdown editor in an admin UI does not promote the system to a CMS, although I could be skewed towards enterprise systems here…

I was singling out the idea that a YAML front matter with Markdown is not specially innovative or attractive as a feature.

In fact, YAML is pretty hard to use to be advertised as user-friendly[0] front matter that can be edited by hand.

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[0]: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/yaml-tips