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toast
Rust2019–2023
stepchowfun / toast

toast

Containerize your development and continuous integration environments. 🥂

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17Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
1.6KGitHub stars
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Containerize your development and continuous integration environments. 🥂

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A small plug: Toast (https://github.com/stepchowfun/toast) has already introduced a patch for this vulnerability (CVE-2020-15228), so arbitrary user code running inside Toast…

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HN mentions by year17 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-05-22 20:00:15 UTC to 2023-06-21 00:15:18 UTC.

024682019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 3 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 2 submissions, 6 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC330
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC826
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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- A build system / package manager like Nix [1] but with a better user experience / more straightforward command-line tooling. - A dependently typed programming language like Coq [2] (or Agda, Idris, Lean, etc.) that is sufficiently approachable to gain enough mindshare that companies start adopting it for mission-critical work. - A version control system which scales to petabytes or more. Something that I could put large video files in without thinking twice about it. Something a large company could use for their monorepo—or even their data warehouse. - A note-taking tool that allows me to organize notes in a graph with links between them (like a wiki), not as files and folders in a tree, which enforces the invariant that every note is transitively reachable from some "root" (by following links) so I never lose a note. - Something like T
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oast [3] but which is also designed for running services in production, not just local development and continuous integration. A unified way to run code in dev, test, and prod environments. A new k8s. [1] https://nixos.org/ [2] https://coq.inria.fr/ [3] https://github.com/stepchowfun/toast (shameless plug)
In Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?
If you're looking for a way to reproduce your CI locally that isn't tied to a particular CI system (but which has a nice integration with GitHub Actions), there's also Toast: https://github.com/stepchowfun/toast Toast lets you use whatever base image you want (even when running with GitHub Actions), and it has some extra features for local development (e.g., caching, bind mounts, tasks with dependencies between them, etc.).
In GitHub Actions by Example
Small plug: consider using Toast [1] to define your CI jobs. It's essentially Make + Docker. You define whatever targets you want (build, test, lint, etc.) and the dependencies between them in a YAML file, and Toast runs them in Docker containers. You can run your jobs on any machine that has Docker—including CI systems like Travis and GitHub Actions. You aren't locked into any CI system, and you can also run your jobs locally. [1] https://github.com/stepchowfun/toast
In Travis CI's new pricing plan threw a wrench in my open source works
curryhoward·Nov 3, 2020Recommendation phrase
A small plug: Toast (https://github.com/stepchowfun/toast) has already introduced a patch for this vulnerability (CVE-2020-15228), so arbitrary user code running inside Toast will not be able to trigger this vulnerability when run via a GitHub Action. I highly recommend using Toast for your CI jobs (with or without GitHub Actions), not just for this security fix but also because it also allows you to run your CI jobs locally. It just runs everything inside Docker containers, so it works the same in CI, on your laptop, on your coworker's machine, etc.
In GitHub: Widespread Injection Vulnerabilities in Actions

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