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As a small aside, using the name "Stylus" for something that deals with CSS is perhaps not the best pick, given that it's also a name of a very widely known CSS preprocessor language [1].

[1] https://stylus-lang.com/

And also by non-malware Stylish fork, a thing to modify CSS in the browser: https://github.com/openstyles/stylus/

Ah, the golden rule of Show HN -- any time something is posted, someone in the peanut gallery has a gripe about its name.

I mean, would Lihoinfman be a bad name? Just concatenating the first part of each word. It helps you remember what the project is and gives a unique string.

Or do it GNU style, QHIM -> QHIM home infra manager.

But no, lets name it after a common object.

> I mean, would Lihoinfman be a bad name?

Yes, unless you say it like Professor Frink.

It's almost as if naming things can be difficult.

Think, the number of words used for new project naming actually limited to "1000 words".

Really curios why nowadays devs can't find unique names for new things and try reuse widely used "1000 words".

I've been looking for a way to automate monitoring of my home network by enhancing the network diagrams I've been keeping in diagrams.net w/CSS indicating the current status.

This project evolved from this experiment. The server runs a set of monitoring scripts at regular intervals and generates a CSS file that can be applied to your diagram (or optionally re-applied at periodic intervals).

It's very lightweight, written in Rust and barely uses any resources on my Pi 1B. It's also very configurable and I plan on adding a few more features to reduce the amount of configuration for traditional home networks.

> Note that this project was originally written using deno, but was rewritten in Rust to support Raspberry Pis.

A lot to unpack here.

I originally wrote it in a few hours to experiment with deno. It worked perfectly on my mac, but there isn't an arm port and I really wanted to run it on my Pi 1B which was arm6, 32-bit. I fell back to Rust/async and it took another couple of hours, but I was able to build a multi-arch docker container from that.

This reminds me a bit of big brother.

For sure! It's kind of inspired by the old style/industrial monitoring dashboards.

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