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onatmon Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure

I haven’t put too much thought into this yet. A "branch" depth threshold is the first thing that comes to mind, with RBD flattening as an option once that threshold is reached.

onatmon Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure

The performance definitely sucks but it's not a really serious project. I wouldn't use something like Homescale for using facing products.

onatmon Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure

It was a good read. I also worked on a similar product that used zfs instead of Ceph.

Also, as you said, Homescale is a lot closer to Xata. It all started as a joke and the name stuck.

onatmon Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure

I am not sure where you think I claimed it'll be "easy and quick". Do you really think building a system on top of k8s internals and Ceph is something that everybody can pull off?.

onatmon Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure

It's far from complete. This is just the infrastructure bit that I need to build the actual service. I am going to build an operator, a coordinator, an API and a CLI. I am going to continue writing posts while building them.

onatmon Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure

I hope they'll enjoy reading it.

onatmon Phonicorn: A self-hosted phonics flashcard app for kids practice word sounds

Hey HN, I vibe-coded a small self-hosted phonics flashcard app for my daughter this afternoon. She has an "exam" next week based on the words in the data folder. If your kids struggle with phonics, you can use this too: generate word lists with any LLM, drop them into the data folder, and follow the README.

onatmon Why I Built My Own Kubernetes Cluster on Hetzner Cloud

I updated the title.

onatmon Show HN: I created a cross-platform GUI for the JJ VCS (Git compatible)

This looks great though I like TUIs more. I’ve been using https://github.com/idursun/jjui for the last few months, I highly recommend it if you are a TUI person like me.

onatmon Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://onatm.dev

It's been a while since the last entry but I got some interesting low level stuff there

- https://onatm.dev/2019/04/05/anatomy-of-a-hack-assembly-prog... - https://onatm.dev/2019/04/07/anatomy-of-a-hack-assembly-prog...

and this one is my fav piece: https://onatm.dev/2020/08/10/let-s-implement-a-bloom-filter/

onatmon Strictly No AIs – License Against the Machine

  If someone has a pacemaker or similar artificial medical device, are they still an organic human?

Yes, they are.

  If I call my algorithm an optimization technique, does your license still put permissions on my use?

I think we need a new version to prevent this type of usage.

  Would it be better named "Rage Against the Man"?

What about "Butlerian Jihad License"?

onatmon Let’s implement a Bloom Filter

Those are not hand drawn diagrams. I used https://excalidraw.com

onatmon Let’s implement a Bloom Filter

I believe I jumped into conclusion without properly reading the article I linked and the first reference you gave. I will update my post not to give any false information. Thank you!

onatmon “I lost my inheritance with one wrong digit on my sort code”

As someone who moved from Turkey to the UK 3 years ago, I could say that the British Bank system is closer to non-existent. You can't make such silly mistakes in the Turkish banking system because the system rejects the transfer if the recipient's name is wrong/mistyped.

onatmon Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time

Thank you for your reply!

onatmon Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time

Great work! I wondered what resource you have used when you started learning electronics. I'd be really appreciated if you share them

onatmon Google Maps' Moat

Great article but it may cause epilepsy. I felt really dizzy while reading it.

onatmon NetJs: A .NET to TypeScript and JavaScript compiler

why don't you just compile to js?

http://i.imgur.com/0DgQh4e.jpg

onatmon How we failed our YC interview

today, same failure happened to my team. we created a solution about cloud gis which takes geomatics engineering concerns into account. some of the investors asked us "what is the difference between google earth and our project". before the presentation, we were joking about what if they ask us about google earth. it wasn't funny.