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I'm excited by Cap'n Proto's participation in the OCAPN standardization effort. Can you speak to if that's going to be part of the Cap'n Proto 2.0 work?

https://github.com/ocapn/ocapn

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Sadly, the person leading that participation, Ian "zenhack" Denhardt, recently and unexpectedly passed away.

For my part, I'm a fan of OCapN, but I am not sure how much time I can personally commit to it, with everything on my plate.

I wish I had better news here. This was a tragic loss for all of us.

That's tragic. Was he also not helping maintain sandstorm? Would appreciate a blog post or a note about him there

Yes, he was the most active developer over the last few years, although it wasn't a huge amount of activity. And that activity had dropped off this year as Ian shifted his focus to Tempest, a mostly-from-scratch rewrite. https://github.com/zenhack/tempest

For my part I stopped pushing monthly Sandstorm updates this year as there hasn't really been anything to push. Unfortunately Sandstorm's biggest dependencies can't even be updated anymore because of breaking changes that would take significant effort to work around.

I agree a blog post is probably in order.

I have thought a bit on this but I have also been pretty much just been recovering lately. We will probably need to assemble a blog post at some point soonish, but we need to talk to a few people first.

Who are you in this? Your profile just shows a username.

I'm part of Sandstorm's community team and the maintainer of some apps and tools relating to the project.

Can confirm, ocdtrekkie is one of Sandstorm's most active maintainers over the last few years.

Looking at https://sandstorm.io/news/2014-08-19-why-not-run-docker-apps from 9 years ago, it seems you think that Docker was/is poorly suited for individual user administration. Since the Internet has started enshittifying in the last few years I've been turning to self-hosting apps, but this requires researching distro-specific instructions for each new app I install, and I got burned when Arch updated their Postgres package which broke compatibility with the old database formats until I ran a manual upgrade script which required troubleshooting several errors along the way. (In hindsight, I should've picked a fixed-release distro like Debian or something.)

Would you say that there have been user-friendly Docker/etc. wrappers for self-hosting LAN services? Someone has recommended casaOS (or the proprietary Umbrel), though I haven't tried either yet.

The guy making Tempest? That is tragic and deserves an HN front page. Is there an obituary or good link you can submit and we can upvote? Or would Ian have preferred not to have such?

Indeed, Ian was the driving force behind Tempest. I am not aware of any obituary.

I would have sworn that HN is where I saw https://staticfree.info/ian/ but at the time I didn't realize why it was timely.

The best link I know is Christine Lemmer-Webber's post:https://octodon.social/@cwebber/110712988569475393

Kenton, I'm @lthibault on GitHub. I was working closely with Ian on the Go capnp implementation, and I would be happy to take over this initiative. Can you point me in the right direction?

Also, are you on Matrix or Telegram or something of the sort? I was hoping I could ping you with the occasional question as I continue work on go-capnp.

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