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I think the most interesting part of the article is the Huggingface incident at the end:

Right now defenders are effectively banned from using Fable or Sol for cybersecurity because of Trump administration directives; that means the best alternative is using models from a country which has been trying to weaken our cyber defenses for years. This is insane!

I understand some guardrails are needed, but it is becoming increasing problematic manage them without a strong public discussion.

Hi, thank you for pointing it out! I seem unable to edit it :(

8Bit Computers Retro computer history from Atari 2600 to NES (1980-1985)

I use python click too, and it helps me to focus on design before implementing.

I mean before asking AI to implement :)

Sometimes I suspect the rust-rewrite is just a way to advertise Claude Code power.

In all my professional carrier so far, a full rewrite without reason is a recipe for disaster, see

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

This Joel Sposky article is always my northstar when I have such "temptations". My 2 cents

I am developing a super light similar thing here

https://github.com/daitangio/take-ai-control

It is docker + vscode friendly. I tested it with major systems (copilot, codex, Claude Code and pi.dev) Comments Wellcome!

I love it so much I have created a thin statless orchestrator layer upon it:

https://github.com/daitangio/misterio

It works very well!

I agree. Go fast with a suboptimal architecture. If success arise, throw away version 1 and rebuild from scratch. Often is more effettive.

I am using SQLite on paperless-ngx (an app to manage pdf [4]). It is quite difficult to beat SQLite if you do not have a very huge parallelism factor in writes.

SQLite is an embedded database: no socket to open, you directly access to it via file system.

If you do not plan to use BigData with high number of writers, you will have an hard time beating SQLite on modern hardware, on average use cases.

I have written a super simple search engine [1] using python asyncio and SQLite is not the bottleneck so far.

If you are hitting the SQLite limit, I have an happy news: PostgreSQL upgrade will be enough for a lot of use cases [2]: you can use it to play with a schemaless mongo-like database, a simple queue system [3] or a search engine with stemming. After a while you can decide if you need a specialized component (i.e. Kafka, Elastic Search, etc) for one of your services.

[1] https://github.com/daitangio/find

[2] https://gioorgi.com/2025/postgres-all/

[3] https://github.com/daitangio/pque

[4] https://docs.paperless-ngx.com

Me too, but I was able to do it around 1995-1996 :) Also remember Windows95 can boot with 4MB of RAM, and was decent with 12MB.

Please give a try to docker mailserver too: https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver

It is quite easy to setup and give you much control, I do it myself:

https://gioorgi.com/2020/mail-server-on-docker

Documentation is very very clear

You are ready for misterio: https://github.com/daitangio/misterio A tiny layer around stareless docker cluster. I created it for my homelab and it gone wild

Self-hosting is becoming a freedom factor in my humble opinion. I have an hard time hosting my email server, it was not so diffcult 10 years ago and was trivial 20 years ago.

The reason is the anti-spam rules and the fact that Google, Microsoft and so on are creating a iron trust to each other, and the little server outside are marked spam by default.

Lets encrypt avoided a similar destiny to https connections, but the risk is always out of the window. I mean, https was becoming "pay-us-to-publish a web server, or our browser will mark you as unsafe and do not display it".

I think it is time also to self-host private free chats and possibly other services lik DDoS services.

True, but this is a new beginning.Give time and credit to build an alternative. I think another repo server will not harm anyone in the long run

I set up my personal mail server https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver and I have wrote about it here https://gioorgi.com/2020/mail-server-on-docker

I am GMail-free from 2020 and I am a lot happier.

I keep my GMail account, but I use just as failsafe or as seconday account. In the meantime, I have very little trouble managing my mail-server.

I keep using isso https://isso-comments.de/ I installed it on my static blog very easily, and I own all the data. Also it is GDPR-compliant (because it provide hints on how to remove data like IPs) and it is very light. For me Disqus and similia are a dead end.

Replit, Lovable Cursor ok... but how much of this company will survive in the next 2 years? I wrote a small post, and I'd like your opinion!

I do not know: the lack of proper docker compose support it is a problem for me. About security: gVistor adoption failure in Google is a proof that containerization cannot be enforced easily and container will always be less secure than a VM.

If you want proper security go to firecracker [^1]. Podman is the "RedHat/IBM docker-way" but I see very little benefit overall; never less if it works for you great and go with it!

[^1]: https://firecracker-microvm.github.io

Right in theory hard to do in practice. Also business needs are awful complex, guys.

Bitnami K8s helm charts was very well done but overall we can live without them.

I would suggest boradcom to offer two tie: one free on they repository and one se t of more specific images.

Burning the docker.io images is a dumb move.

Nice… keep in mind there are already very mature tools like https://tiddlywiki.com/ which supports a plugin architecture.

Yes hugo+template+isso (my Giorgi.com setup) has some hidden dependencies but you can get a fancy site in very little time. A dynamic web site is exciting to design, but require a lot of effort… I suggest to use Python Django: it has a tutorial for a blog!

Java is the new Cobol.

Java had changing its skin: Applets and Security managers, part of the cornerstone of Java 1.102 are gone. So Java are 2-3 different evolving language nowadays.

JVM has so strong optimization layers which make very difficult for other languages to provide similar performance (Erlang is one of them in my humble opinion).

Yeah C/C++ program are faster but error prone (manual memory allocation...) PHP is faster for web developing but refactoring is a nightmare. Python can compete, but I do see few big projects written in it (Zulip,Dropbox,Plone/Zope).

JavaScript is super rapid dev rapid but can become a mess.

Rust is the newcome, I do not know but it seems quite cognitive-complex to code with it (I may be wrong).

I worked with shit-like Java code and i was always able to refactor it in small chunks.

The verbosity of Java is its major strength, but some things added to the language (like default interface implementations, virtual threads) are drawbacks because it create some confusion on basic pattern strategy you can employ with the language.

I wrapped together a simple yet powerful queue system:

https://github.com/daitangio/pque

I evaluated Listen/notify but it seems to loose messages if no one is listening, so its use case seems pretty limited to me (my 2 cents).

Anyway, If you need to scale, I suggest an ad hoc queue server like rabbitmq.

Very well written article! I used xor just as fast clear register :)

i am working on GenAI email-based service in my spare time. It is still in its infancy but let me explore LLama3 feature on Ollama. I plan to open source its core if no similar ideas are out of there.

My Misterio docker based tool is searching new feature request... https://github.com/daitangio/misterio/

Also, I am playing a bit with Zulip Chat, which I find quite well done and easy to self-host, considering its complexity: https://github.com/zulip/docker-zulip

Last but not least, I suggest a new Murderbook novel... https://amzn.to/3TMJdlh because there is not only coding!

Software metric are hard, indeed :) Be prepared in a ai-code world when more code does not mean better code.

Very interesting. I was m always amazed by the code complexity behind C/64. Also, all this logic was squeezed in so few bytes!

Sad to say, but for the meantime Wordpress is a dead end at least for my personal needs.

I wrote about it in my blog [1]. It is an amazing tool with an unstable company behind.

Time will show us if the FAIR Package Manager will be able to improve the overall ecosystem status.

[1] https://gioorgi.com/2024/liberta-come-aria/

Hum for me vanilla is html+css. If you throw in javascript language, I do not see the 'vanilla' anymore :)

I ended up using hugo + isso (for commenting) and it works very well. I moved to this setup after the wordpress drama, and even if I miss something, freedom has no price: https://gioorgi.com/2024/liberta-come-aria/