Gleam Is Now on Tangled

by nerdypepper • 4 days ago

248 146 4 days ago

if anyone has more info on tangled would love to hear. been looking for a decentralized git provider for a while. started self hosting but was missing the social element

p-e-w2• 4 days ago

I’d be interested too. Besides the fact that the company appears to be registered in Finland, I haven’t been able to find any information on who’s behind this, how they are funded, etc.

verdverm2• 4 days ago

https://blog.tangled.org/seed/

Similar groups to Bluesky (bain capital crypto) and some notable CEOs

GitHub's moat is not code hosting, they will need to build out the equivalent of Actions and figure out what private repos look like. Unclear how they intend to IAP with corporate identity systems, I have a hard time seeing ATProto break into that category.

vixalien• 4 days ago

I think it's currently non-selfhostable. You can host your own git server (knot) and CI runner (spindle) but not really the UI/API itself, but they're working on changing it. Currently it's a bit centralised

nerdypepper6• 4 days ago

you can selfhost the appview: https://blog.tangled.org/bobbin, which makes all of tangled fully selfhostable now.

arikrahman5• 4 days ago

It is self-hostable, but Tangled could disclose that great fact a bit more upfront.

psionides• 4 days ago

Rudy from Blacksky set up their own copy of Tangled without Tangled guys even knowing about it, so it would look to me like it is self-hostable: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7r6qv3rw/po...

Arubis3• 4 days ago

[Radicle](https://radicle.dev/) gets a wee bit closer. It’s selfhostable and federated. You’ll have a hard time finding something with the same social gravity well as GitHub; it remains to be seen whether that’s a separable element or if it needs to ship as part of the forge itself.

jeremyjh4• 4 days ago

This looks like a much more sensible design for code repos: all the artifacts live in the repo.

theptip2• 4 days ago

I’ve been testing Radicle and it’s more focused on the distributed protocol for federating git repos, I.e. the data plane. The social / coordination control-plane angle is really thin, following users and repos goes by opaque IDs, etc.

It could be a better solution for agents that don’t bounce off such mundane complexity. It could be better for private repo federation (eg private collective or agent swarm.)

I’m interested in Tangled for the OSS/community aspect, it seems to have an advantage there with the richer identity layer for humans.

Certhas• 4 days ago

Can I interact with and discover any federated instance without having to know it exists?

My experience with Bluesky Vs Mastodon really showed that the friction of federation in the latter can really kill the experience for me. I think we need something like Signal is to WhatsApp but for GitHub and my impression is that the ATProto world is the only one with the potential to deliver this.

arikrahman5• 4 days ago

How does tangled compare with codeberg? Seem like a cool project, wonder how the migration story is.

bpev• 4 days ago

I use both. Tangled is missing some important features (private repos, protected branches). The ui feels more comfy to me, though. And Codeberg is quite slow for me.

Idk if I can give you toooo much about migration, since I haven't used any CICD kind of stuff; just having repos to push to is super simple if you use their hosted knots. Also not too complicated to host a knot yourself; I'm hosting my own knot, and I like that I own at least one of the servers that I'm pushing code to.

arikrahman5• 4 days ago

I just switched to Tangled. It was actually very similar experience. I will be using Tangled henceforth!

nicce2• 4 days ago

Tangled is also VC funded, something to consider.

preisschild• 4 days ago

What makes Tangled different from other forges like Forgejo/Codeberg is that its built around the ATProto federation protocol

opem5• 4 days ago

Except it isn't just working as a federation protocol here, it is also acting as an identity provider and a data store for you social interaction on a repo.

Planktonne2• 4 days ago

This post needs a bunch more context; right now it's only immediately accessible to people who don't need the announcement [1].

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/curtains-for-zoosha

Arubis3• 4 days ago

The irony of that linked page dragging a reposted mid tweet into multiple scrollable pages of “content” and in doing so reading exactly like a celeb news article

Planktonne2• 4 days ago

I think it would only be irony if it was guilty of the same issue it's complaining about in celeb news: not sufficiently explaining the context. If anything, it's too exhaustive.

nvme0n1p1• 4 days ago

Yeah, it turns out human culture has a lot of depth and complexity, even so-called "mid" culture. If you think you can write a better explainer, I'd love to read it.

ryukoposting• 4 days ago

Headline reminds me of Poob.

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/3056633-poob-has-it-for-you

wffurr• 4 days ago

The fact that I know what both Gleam and Tangled are in this context means I spend too much time on HN and not enough time doing useful things.

viccis2• 4 days ago

Makes me nostalgic for the old days (2000s and early 2010s) when everything was WordWord. Facebook, Instagram, Myspace, Dropbox, etc. Now it's just normal words without vowels. The Grindrification of naming.

classified• 4 days ago

So is it true that JESTERMAXXING at the club is the new meta?

bmitc2• 4 days ago

I have zero idea what your link has to do with the original post, which seems to just be the Gleam language on some new version control host?

opem5• 4 days ago

Exactly, even if one doesn't know about either of these things (gleam & tangled), all it would take is one or two searches or even better they just visit the homepage. I suppose people have become so used to reading llm generated bluff that simple things don't appeal/make sense to them anymore.

mvdtnz• 4 days ago

seems to just be the Gleam language

Ok so that "gleam" is a language (presumably programming language) is some of the missing context.

on some new version control host

Is that what Tangled is? I guess I'll take your word for it.

opem5• 4 days ago

Yeah it should definitely start with a bit of explanation, perhaps, it should start with what this site (hn, aka, hackernews) is even about!

sippeangelo• 4 days ago

It gives "Bleeb is now Scrumple! Snap me on Simpr! We're excited to share that Gringl will merge with Jigglify!"

culi• 4 days ago

Gleam is a popular language amongst people who like Erlang or Elixir. They are both built for the BEAM virtual machine.

Tangled is a decentralized GitHub alternative built on ATProto (the same protocol as Bluesky)

subarctic• 4 days ago

Did they move away from github?

Zambyte2• 4 days ago

This isn't true. I knew what gleam was (though do not use it) and what tangled was already (and I do use it), and this announcement is new information to me.

andycowley• 4 days ago

Came here for this comment

jordand• 4 days ago

I'm willing to give Tangled a go too with a project, but feature set to bridge the gap still has a long way to go (no idea how long it'll take). Github outages (especially when just viewing repos!) are getting way too disrupting.

julianlam• 4 days ago

Why Tangled instead of something more established like Codeberg, or if f/loss, Forgejo or Gitea?

Just because ATProto vibes?

nerdypepper6• 4 days ago

disclaimer: i maintain tangled, some reasons to try might be:

- tangled federates: https://blog.tangled.org/federation

- native stacked PRs: https://blog.tangled.org/stacking

- tangled implements mitchell's vouch system: https://blog.tangled.org/vouching

arikrahman5• 4 days ago

Yes, separation between git storage and identity. Very simple to use your own Knot instead of the default knot1, just enter your own website link to it. Not as beholden to Github downtimes that are out of your hands.

I was using Codeberg this morning, now I'm on Tangled. All I had to do was switch remote origin.

jeremyjh4• 4 days ago

It also has a pretty fundamental design flaw: issue /PR comments belong to the server where the commenter is hosted, not to the repo. I’m sure they will find a workaround but finding that reduced confidence they actually understand the problem they are solving.

chaosharmonic• 4 days ago

something more established like Codeberg, or if f/loss, Forgejo or Gitea?

Codeberg's git hosting is a Forgejo instance, actually.

lpil4• 4 days ago

Yes, frustration with GitHub outages certainly made me start to look elsewhere.

gchamonlive2• 4 days ago

Wish a git forge would support both Actions and Gitlab CI pipelines. Reuse community workflows for simple actions, default to Gitlab CI for anything custom.

nerdypepper6• 4 days ago

the way the CI runners on tangled work, you could just plug in your own bespoke runner as long as it fits the interface. we implement two such "engines": nixery and microvm. you can plug an engine like tack[0], which can act like a bridge interface to other CI systems. there is also loom[1], which is a kubernetes based engine.

[0] https://tangled.org/mitchellh.com/tack

[1]: tangled.org/evan.jarrett.net/loom

gchamonlive2• 4 days ago

The problem is that interface isn't enough when in Gitlab the CI natively integrates with other systems, like test reports displaying results in merge requests. This would certainly enable hybrid pipelines through.

pbjerkeseth2• 4 days ago

First hearing of tangled, tried signing up and this first time user experience needs to be tightened up. Currently unwilling to sign in because of the friction I ran into using a password manager. From what it looks like they:

- ask you for an email

- send you an email

- ask you for a username

- except you cant actually log in with this username directly

- im being forced to learn some new social url protocol

- why does the auth flow pass me through a new ui/url that seems owned by the project but visually disconnected (eg, different branding/colors for the form)

- my password manager couldnt bridge the gap

I'm notoriously fickle about dealing with signup/login friction, but the project sounds cool so hopefully my feedback is more actionable than curmudgeony.

whywhywhywhy• 4 days ago

Better than my experience with it, just says:

Failed to complete sign up. Try again later.

bpavuk• 4 days ago

ha, I could not sign in and I already have an Atmosphere account!

xedrac2• 4 days ago

That was my experience too.

gpm3• 4 days ago

Fwiw the sign up/in process for me was "click login, type in my existing blue sky handle, type in my password (into a bsky domain name login prompt), click authorize".

I expect that's the... more optimized flow at this point in this forge's life.

- why does the auth flow pass me through a new ui/url that seems owned by the project but visually disconnected (eg, different branding/colors for the form)

Probably because of the above, identity isn't tightly associated with the app you're using here so they've stood up their own infra for it but probably not spent too much time on making it good.

- except you cant actually log in with this username directly

Really? That's strange... I haven't made a native account... what do you need to login with then?

pbjerkeseth2• 4 days ago

a "username.tngl.sh" schema, which is that I meant by the unfamiliar protocol in the next bullet

esafak• 4 days ago

If you too are wondering their CI story, it is based on NixOS:

https://blog.tangled.org/ci/

https://blog.tangled.org/spindle-microvm/

Curiously the link to the spec is broken: https://tangled.sh/@tangled.sh/core/blob/master/docs/spindle...

LukaD2• 4 days ago

I just tried out tangled for the first time and unfortunately it seems buggy beyond being actually usable. I created a repo but can't look at it because I get a 404 for it. The login was quite painful as well as I needed several attempts to enter my atproto handle (copy-pasted every time, so no typo). But I'm glad more people are working on git hosting options.

embedding-shape• 4 days ago

I created a repo but can't look at it because I get a 404 for it.

I remember back in early GitHub days this used to happen too, as the repository was asynchronously created but the redirect was immediate, then after a few seconds you refreshed the page and it was there. At one point they added the interstitial that I think is still there, that basically does the "waiting then redirect" for you.

LukaD2• 4 days ago

Oh yes, seems like that's it. I can now view the repo. A bit annoying when creating a repo redirects you to a URL that will give you a 404 initially (and at least for minute or so, that's how long I tried).

sc68cal• 4 days ago

I tried Tangled and tried to run my own Knot, the problem I had was I'd create a repository, have it get created correctly on my Knot, but then would never see any updates to the repo on Tangled itself.

The main issue is that even though I had the knot with IPv6 connectivity, it only really reliably worked once I enabled lots of IPv4 NAT'ing and also created a dummy A record for the Knot.

This is a known issue - https://tangled.org/tangled.org/core/issues/494

HeavyStorm• 4 days ago

What's tangled? Which Gleam?

sbuttgereit• 4 days ago

I guess this is one of those cases where, "if you know, you know."

I'm not sure of the link on the post though... I didn't see anything at all that jumped out as pertinent to this "Tangled" thing. I get that many posts on HN just aren't meant for me... but this seems to take that to an extreme.

Edit: yes I see the URL is Tangled... But that is a very subtle cue that I didn't notice until the third time I clicked through to see if the landing page really said nothing about Tangled.

YorickPeterse• 4 days ago

What's a search engine?

schnebbau• 4 days ago

Smashly and GoFlam have merged.

Grimbl and Sporkify are joining forces.

GetSocks is now on Zoobazoop.

lolptdr• 4 days ago

Curtains for Zoosha? K-smog and Batboy caught flipping a grunt

opem5• 4 days ago

Don't open the story, don't follow the links, and last but not the least don't read the texts!

phplovesong• 4 days ago

Github is fine. I know it has issues, but for the day to day random OS gig it has never failed me.

jdiff3• 4 days ago

Project's still on Github, it hasn't migrated or anything.

lavela3• 4 days ago

I'd love to hear why they chose a VC funded forge over e.g. Codeberg.

Doesn't really fit the 'friendly language' claim IMO

jdiff3• 4 days ago

They're still on GitHub. This isn't any sort of official transition. It's just now also on this other ATProto-based forge.

lavela3• 4 days ago

So I assume you know that tangled being ATProto-based was the reason for going there?

And please explain how it's not a choice when they are still on GitHub.

shimman• 4 days ago

We all know why... as a condition of some monetary support. It does give a sour taste, really shows what core values are: money > community. I'll just focus on using elixir for a project instead.

lavela3• 4 days ago

No I don't know this. Do you have any source for that?

lpil4• 4 days ago

I wish! Alas, the Gleam project continues to be under-funded and we have not got a single penny from any venture capital company.

If anyone would like to give me a large amount of money in exchange for my publishing a mirror on your git forge, please get in touch ;)

lpil4• 4 days ago

While the way that Tangled is funded is not my preference, I see great potential in atproto for improving the internet. This and and a lot of interest in the Gleam community for the protocol made me decide it was a good place to host a mirror of the Gleam repository.

nasso_dev4• 4 days ago

"being on tangled" really just means "publishing sh.tangled.* atproto records"

the beauty of atproto means that you are in no way tied to the VC funded company behind the web app available at tangled.org. you merely publish your git repository using a protocol that this app will pick up and present with a nice UI

any other app that speaks atproto and looks at those same sh.tangled.* records will be able to access everything in the same way

and even the git repository itself doesn't need to be hosted by tangled the company, you can host your repository yourself. all you need is a server that can speak git, ssh, http and websocket

isodev5• 4 days ago

the beauty of atproto means that you are in no way tied to the VC funded company behind the web app

This is false: you’re tied to both tangled (unless you want to self host a forge, which if you did you wouldn’t have picked tabgled) and Bluesky for your login to keep working (unless you want to self host a complex constellation of social media components).

sergiotapia• 4 days ago

"federation" has a certain stink to it, I regret creating an account just now. I didn't realize it was that type of website.

starkruzr• 4 days ago

girl what

manincharge• 4 days ago

The linked page creates more questions than it answers. Do we need to disentangle this?

vvern• 4 days ago

How are folks doing CI on tangled?

bewuethr• 4 days ago

With "spindles", apparently: https://blog.tangled.org/spindle-microvm/

ashu14613• 4 days ago

Lot of new buzzwords learned today.

ianhanschen• 4 days ago

bubble-ass headline

kimbernator• 4 days ago

As someone who has no idea what either of these things are, this reads like a satirical headline. I get an email like this about my company's myriad platforms nearly daily

blackqueeriroh6• 4 days ago

Congratulations! You’re an adult on a website. If you do t know what something means, you have the ability to click the link and learn, which would’ve taken you far less time than this pointless snarky comment that’s been made so many times already.

At least try being original.

isodev5• 4 days ago

Picture this: someone “moderates” your bluesky account for some unrelated reason and you’re no longer able to manage your own source codes…

stavros• 4 days ago

Isn't that the same as Github "moderating" my Github account for some unrelated reason? Also, since Bluesky is decentralised, can't I just host my own data?

isodev5• 4 days ago

GitHub - sensible folks have more than one account with access to critical bits. The really important things are probably mirrored.

Bluesky’s decentralisation is a “yes but it’s complicated and you can’t _just_ do anything”. I like that they’re experimenting with “apps” but source control feels a bit too far.

videah• 4 days ago

If this is a concern you can just migrate to a different PDS

isodev5• 4 days ago

Apparently, that’s not enough. You will also need your own “app view” which means you will be self hosting an over engineered forge with social features you can’t use… so why go that road to begin with is beyond me tbh.

nasso_dev4• 4 days ago

this is like complaining that you can't login anywhere because google banned your gmail account...

isodev5• 4 days ago

And we don’t complain about that because nobody uses “sign in with google” for mission critical stuff. It’s absolutely a choice to tie all your things to a single corp.

lpil4• 4 days ago

This regularly happens with Microsoft's GitHub. You can also opt to not use Bluesky for authentication.

blackqueeriroh6• 4 days ago

Depends on the type of moderation. Most moderation, which happens via labels on Bluesky, doesn’t prevent you from logging into your account. That would require a full suspension or ban, which is much rarer. And, as others have noted, you could just move to a different PDS. You don’t even have to self-host!

nerdypepper6• 4 days ago

this is simply false: bluesky moderating your account will have no effect on what happens with it on tangled. on the off-chance that your account is hosted by bluesky's PDS AND your account gets deleted for violating their terms, yes, you will lose complete access to that account. you can avoid this by either following their TOS or hosting your own PDS or joining the tangled PDS instead.

neko-moe• 4 days ago

or keeping your own plc rotation key and a backup of your user repo, then you can migrate even after bluesky issues a takedown on your user.

hnarn• 4 days ago

I have no idea what Gleam or Tangled is, so for me this headline might as well be an article from The Onion satirizing HN. I also refuse to believe any of these two things are large enough, like say Postgres, that one can claim everyone should know it. Surely writing an informative headline for ”hackers in general” can’t be that difficult.

paulddraper• 4 days ago

If you click on the title, it will tell you more.

Gleam has had many dozens of front page posts here.

Tangled is a niche GitHub alternative, but has also had previous history.

HtmlProgrammer• 4 days ago

Flink has acquired Cajoo

speerer• 4 days ago

For some context (which people seem to be wanting): Gleam is an interestinf language that is very tight and small. I met the folks from Gleam at the recent Ubuntu Summit and was struck by the talk they gave which made the point (about the design philosophy of staying small and careful creation) excellently. It's very watchable, and Giacomo later explained (when I asked) that he'd hand-animated every transition. Which re-struck me as a doubly good way to reinforce the point of the talk, which was itself small and carefully created.

https://youtu.be/E6_JqYMeNqs

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/gleam-and-the-value-of-small/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleam_(programming_language)

nullorempty• 4 days ago

Tangled-ha... Now I know what the next one will be called.

senderista• 4 days ago

call me back when it's on Poob

gregjw• 4 days ago

First hearing about Tangled, interesting.

xedrac2• 4 days ago

Gleam looks interesting, but I can't say I'm too impressed with Tangled... it won't even let me sign up.

monster_truck• 4 days ago

I have nothing to contribute other than pointing out that the kool aid drinkers in this thread all sound fucking insane.

What the fuck is this? It's a git repo. The interface pisses me off

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