13 comments

  • tajd a day ago ago

    I have never heard of tangle before - are many people using it? What are peoples opinions of it?

    • MerrimanInd a day ago ago

      I'm playing around with it. I self-hosted the Tranquil PDS (personal data server, part of AT Proto), a knot (git repositories), and a spindle (CI runner) on my home server. It was all relatively easy to set up but even in the week that I was bringing it up I found bugs and then saw those bugs get fixed so they're earning the "alpha" badge on their website. I'm not using it for anything load bearing yet but I like the idea at a high-level, though it remains to be seen how well code hosting fits into the AT Proto model.

      https://tangled.org/tranquil.farm/tranquil-pds

      https://docs.tangled.org/knot-self-hosting-guide

      https://docs.tangled.org/spindles#self-hosting-guide

      edit: TIL HN doesn't support markdown, why does this surprise me every time.

    • nerdypepper a day ago ago

      you can visit https://tangled.org/timeline to view activity without logging in

      • e12e a day ago ago

        Aww, I thought this might be a literate programming wrapper around grotesque yaml action programming...

    • crimsoneer a day ago ago

      It's quite a cool technical concept, and I really like their design sensibility, but don't know anybody using it "in prod".

      • satvikpendem a day ago ago

        It's also VC backed so you know it'll turn bad sometime in the future.

        • LelouBil a day ago ago

          It's also fully open source and you can self-host your data while interacting with everyone else like it's GitHub

          • satvikpendem 16 hours ago ago

            Until they rugpull, like many VC backed OSS projects over the years, I imagine.

    • sausagefest a day ago ago

      It’s an attempt to shove AT Proto - which no one wants - into everything

  • themgt a day ago ago

    Pro-tip if you're a Tangled newbie: migrating knots and spindle on your Tangled PDS before building Bobbin?

    Remember that Bobbin "is only a glorified edge index, in the graph theory sense. Additionally it has a record cache, re-filled on demand. All other data that Bobbin serves comes live from PDSes & knots."

    You want to first nixery bao proxy spindle with AppRole credentials, then xrpc your punchcard via ATProto. The docs explain all of this clearly, so be sure to read them thoroughly.

    https://docs.tangled.org/bobbin#building-bobbin

    • nerdypepper a day ago ago

      the blogpost about bobbin is an engineering deep dive. you don't need to know any of this to use tangled.

    • officialchicken a day ago ago

      Knots? Spindle? Bobbin?

      And they say skeuomorphism is dead.

  • pksunkara a day ago ago

    FWIW, I really like what Tangled is doing and I agree that we need a federation of forges. Which is why, I am planning to use ATproto too for public repositories in the code forge I am building, https://juju.bi