agentofuser

SEEKING WORK | UTC-4 | REMOTE | React, TypeScript, Gatsby, Next.js, IPFS

## Contact:

Email: hn@agentofuser.com

Website: https://agentofuser.com

## Background:

- Brazilian "Ivy League" Computer Engineering education (University of Campinas)

- 10+ years of software engineering experience

## Seeking:

- Preference for work with static site generators, landing pages, markdown/MDX blogs and documentation websites for developer-focused businesses and startups

## Show HN:

I'm the author of IPFS Deploy[0], a zero-config CLI with great developer experience for deploying static websites to IPFS.

- Its Show HN[1] was on the front page for 10+ hours

- It is recommended by Cloudflare's official docs for their IPFS Gateway

- It got adopted by Protocol Labs (authors of IPFS) who have taken up its maintenance

[0]: https://agentofuser.com/ipfs-deploy/

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19801546

I'm hoping at some point a brave team of enthusiasts decides to try making a business out of modernizing emacs (code and process), like the onivim2 people are doing for vim.

What do you think of forks like Remacs / emacs-ng?

SEEKING WORK | Brazil @ UTC-4 | Remote only | Gatsby, React, TypeScript, IPFS, Rust

Background:

- Brazilian "Ivy League" computer science education (Unicamp)

- 10+ years of software engineering experience

- Startup experience as founder funded by Start-Up Chile program

Seeking:

- 10-15h/week, ongoing maintenance or short-term work preferred

- Static site generators, pandoc, and obscure markdown flavor wrangling are a current specialty

- Also like to do technical (copy|)writing and online devrel-type work

Main claim to fame is being the author of IPFS Deploy, a zero-config CLI with great DX for deploying static websites to IPFS.

- Its Show HN was on the front page for 10+ hours

- It is recommended by Cloudflare's official docs for their IPFS Gateway

- It got adopted by Protocol Labs (authors of IPFS) who have taken up its maintenance

Email: hn@agentofuser.com

CV & links: https://agentofuser.com

Some examples here:

https://twitter.com/afsofia_/status/1105913438650486784

It's unbelievable how entitled people can be towards things that are published for free by authors who owe them nothing.

Mirth hasn't been released. I found it and decided to share it.

Neat! Anyone with more understanding can point out differences with statebox[1]? Both seem to be:

- visual and textual

- purely functional

- dataflow-like

I get the feeling that statebox might not be turing complete (guaranteed termination) and have a stronger focus on formal verification. Also, it doesn't seem to have a visual editor yet.

[1]: https://statebox.org/what-is/

I really want to use Firefox because of Quantum and other Rust goodness, but until they catch up on usability I'm happy to stay with Brave. Tab-to-search is sorely missing in Firefox, and the tab creation and switching experience on Android is awful.

Curious about the suggestion to try plain TeX. Could you expand on what are the advantages? Do you mean it as a learning stepping stone or for actual usage?

Hearing starts at the 14' mark.

If I'm a pedestrian getting my body filmed, 3D-scanned, with potential facial recognition and internal-organs-penetrating sensors added on top, _I'm_ the one who should own that data (and the right to not consent to its collection in the first place). Why are people weirded out by some Google Glass-wearing rando filming them on the sidewalk but ok for everyone behind a wheel to be suddenly promoted to a CCTV omnisensing recorder?

Most users are concerned, they just feel powerless to do anything about it.

Helping decentralize package managers is Protocol Labs' top priority for IPFS in 2019[1].

Seems very prescient now. Hopefully this gets adopted soon enough, while it's still easy to batch-export stuff out of registries. I really don't want MS owning the most popular editor, git host, "linux desktop", and universal package manager in the world. Edit: oh, and programming language (typescript is eating javascript.)

[1]: https://github.com/ipfs/package-managers

It will be interesting to see what happens after Starlink and competitors make radio internet ubiquitous. What are they going to do, shoot down satellites?

Glad you're interested :) I've opened an issue so we can continue on github: https://github.com/agentofuser/ipfs-deploy/issues/13

Wow, that was really fast, congrats! I'd love to have Eternum support on ipfs-deploy, btw. Please let me know if you'd like to submit a PR and need help.

I should add, since you didn't specifically mention web stuff, that it _can_ be used as a CDN for stuff that is less latency-sensitive, like software package managers. That is in fact, the main focus of 2019 for Protocol Labs, the company behind IPFS.

Good idea! I've been following Web Packaging from a distance, so would need to do some research, but from the looks of it, ipfs-deploy could automate packaging up a directory into an SXG before uploading it to pinners. Gotta figure out how to the signing part though. I'll look into it!

Yes, definitely. I mean, you certainly get better bandwidth and latency depending on popularity and geographic diversity of seeders, and there are even youtube-alternative websites that host videos on IPFS. But for something like browsing from one page to the next, where the payload is small and you want <200ms latency, I think just the DHT lookup might already put you above that budget. I'm guessing though, haven't made any measurements.

If you pin to IPFS and then use a public http gateway like https://cloudflare-ipfs.com, which caches and distributes via their CDN, you'll have a good CDN alternative.

If you just use IPFS directly with a non-CDN'd, non-cached http gateway, the latency will probably be prohibitive for regular web stuff.

Yep. That is the price practiced by Pinata[1] after 1GB, and by Eternum[2] at the outset (no free tier).

[1]: https://pinata.cloud/ [2]: https://www.eternum.io/

Thank you! It makes me very happy to hear that. Feel free to ping me if you run into any trouble (even if it's just a non-showstopper like some unnecessary friction or papercut.) Also keen on hearing what services I should add next. I don't use AWS Route 53 but I think it would be a good option to support for instance.

Yeah both Infura and Pinata are free for up to 1Gb or something like that, which is fine for most static websites and blogs. But those are startups, so I agree that for long-term permanence it's better to do some self-hosting down the line.

Hi! Author here. This is my first npm package, so I'd love to hear feedback on how I can improve it, what tools I can use for that, etc. Thank you for checking it out :)

This is a wonderful little tool, thank you for publishing it! It was super easy to install and run.