a sqlite database that can be version-controlled by git alongside source code
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#203free, open source -> https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm
I worked with firecracker a lot back in the day and realized it was a pain to use. And containers had a lot of gotchas too.
Since sandboxing is all the rage now - I think it'd be a better infra primitive than firecracker that works locally/remote and etc.
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#204Allows you to compile most C or Rust programs to run in it without modification. Also can run Claude Code, Codex, Pi, and OpenCode unmodified.
Working on polishing, security, and documentation so I can share an in-depth deep dive on HN.
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#206https://dhuan.github.io/mock/latest/examples.html
^Command line utility that lets you build APIs with just one command.
^JSON/YAML manipulation with AWK style approach.
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#209Petrify is a machine learning model compiler for the the JVM. It reads your model from an ONNX or other model format, walks the Trees or Linear models, and encodes the model in equivalent JVM bytecode as a stateless class you can invoke.
This differs from every other ONNX Runtime that I know of, which are essentially interpreters. The ONNX Runtimes are also huge (90+mb!?!), JNI, and drag gargantuan dependencies!
This just compiles your models to native bytecode. Much simpler and you end up with 0 dependencies! (you need one interface technically, but I digress).