STstepchowfun·Jul 25, 2022
And Toast: https://github.com/stepchowfun/toast
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stepchowfun / toast
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Containerize your development and continuous integration environments. 🥂
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What it is
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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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 2 | 6 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
8 sources- 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)
How would Dagger compare to Toast? https://github.com/stepchowfun/toast
In Dagger: a new way to build CI/CD pipelinesI realize you are probably very busy, so feel free to say no...but could you glance at this Github listing and tell me if it is what I'm looking for...it seems correct, but I may be misunderstanding...
https://github.com/stepchowfun/toast
Thanks so much in advance...
In One machine can go pretty far if you build things properlyToast: Containerize your development and CI environments
8 points · Open discussionIf 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 ExampleToast: A high-level containerized build system
2 points · Open discussionOP is using Docker + Make in a similar way to how I was a few years ago, before I started using Toast (https://github.com/stepchowfun/toast). Toast lets you define tasks like you would with Make (without all the hairy gotchas of Makefiles), but it runs them inside Docker containers for better portability/reproducibility.
In Dockerizing a Programming Language