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…it was about +2114 / -1519 lines of code from 45 files yesterday. I felt productive yesterday. https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio/commit/0c730389c9e4e69...

comment by austin-cheney · 2026-09-26 · in One Month Without AI

…WebSockets : Sounds like the same tag line I have been using in my project for the past 2 years. https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio My approach is pretty simple. Since the connection phase of WebSockets is RFC2616 compatible, per…

comment by austin-cheney · 2026-08-12 · in HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript

…per second. It’s just TypeScript and Node.js with very few dependencies. It comes with a perf tool. https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio

comment by austin-cheney · 2026-08-10 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio * Dashboard for docker and web servers * The web servers serve WebSockets and http from the same ports * The web servers provide simple proxies and can even proxy TLS connections over non-TLS…

comment by austin-cheney · 2026-07-28 · in Ask HN: What apps are you building?

…simple ultra fast proxies, especially around web sockets, and also did not provide a dashboard. https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio Because I am writing more and more of what I need I can integrate features in ways others cannot. I am…

comment by austin-cheney · 2026-07-24 · in Ask HN: Share Your Eccentric Hobby

If you are a TypeScript/Node.js developer you can take a look at: http://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio It is a dashboard for docker, web servers, os data, and more. It exposes most of Node's APIs to a browser front-end in a very low level…

comment by austin-cheney · 2026-06-12 · in Ask HN: Want to build something open source on nights and weekends together?

Here is how I do it in JavaScript: https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio What you need is: * low overhead full-duplex transmission, which for the web is WebSockets * service data, which is network messaging in a predefined format for an…

comment by austin-cheney · 2026-05-24 · in Ask HN: How to learn how to develop real time applications?

…docker container management and web server management with built in streaming and proxy support. https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio

comment by austin-cheney · 2026-05-14 · in Ask HN: What are you working on (non-AI)?

…node app written in TypeScript. The OS specific details come from running the right shell commands. https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio

comment by austin-cheney · 2026-05-10 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

…on Linux, launches/monitors web servers, and provides a visual dashboard for docker containers. https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio This project makes no use of AI.

comment by austin-cheney · 2026-04-09 · in Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

…It’s web servers serve http and web sockets from the same port and includes streaming proxies. https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio

comment by austin-cheney · 2026-04-08 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2026) (Non AI)

…Apple hardware but would love to add support for MacOS * improvements to logging, error messaging https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio/blob/main/lib/services... Screenshots: https://prettydiff.github.io/aphorio/screenshots/index.html

comment by austin-cheney · 2026-04-01 · in Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (March 2026)

…experimental, but there is a very tiny valid use case. I have a strictly personal application at: https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio In that project I have various data artifacts stored in memory that I am constantly having to query in…

comment by austin-cheney · 2026-03-05 · in Ask HN: What are you working on (March 2026)

…I will fix that. I will start work on allowing arbitrary SQLite db creation via the browser UI. https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio

comment by austin-cheney · 2026-02-12 · in Ask HN: What are you working on this Thursday?

…servers, proxies, remote server monitoring, remote terminal, and docker containers in milliseconds. https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio Screenshots: https://prettydiff.github.io/aphorio/screenshots/index.html

comment by austin-cheney · 2026-02-09 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

…am writing a personal application to simplify home server administration if anybody is interested: https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio

comment by austin-cheney · 2026-01-11 · in CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun

…like completing all initial execution, rendering, and garbage collection in less than 130ms. https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio/blob/screenshots/paper... So, in practice it seems you could easily replace 10 React/Angular developers with…

comment by austin-cheney · 2026-01-06 · in Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (2016)

https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio A home server dashboard app. Screenshots available from the readme.md file

comment by austin-cheney · 2026-01-04 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (Jan 2026)

…This past year I learned to do everything else, like all the OS related things, in my personal app: https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio?tab=readme-ov-file

comment by austin-cheney · 2026-01-03 · in Ask HN: What did you learn in 2025?

Here is an example: /lib/dashboard/dashboard_script.ts https://github.com/prettydiff/webserver When you aren’t using framework like components state restoration is a single function that runs only on page load. There is no state explosion…

comment by austin-cheney · 2025-09-16 · in React is winning by default and slowing innovation

This is my current personal project. https://github.com/prettydiff/webserver The backend is multiple files but the frontend is a single file SPA. It loads with state restoration and LCP in about 105ms.

comment by austin-cheney · 2025-09-16 · in Ask HN: What Single File Web Apps do you know of?

…instances. I am the only user of it so it’s probably not stable. The UI displays in a browser. https://github.com/prettydiff/webserver

comment by austin-cheney · 2025-05-18 · in Ask HN: What's the best way to deploy container-based apps for a small project?

…uncomfortable. Here is how I do it. This is all the front end code for a large personal project. https://github.com/prettydiff/webserver/blob/main/lib/dashbo... My observation is that no matter how complicated and large the application…

comment by austin-cheney · 2025-05-11 · in Show HN: Aberdeen – An elegant approach to reactive UIs

https://github.com/prettydiff/webserver This is a personal project for my house only without any commercial aspirations, so features I do not need are not included.

comment by austin-cheney · 2024-08-25 · in Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

…can proxy anything from webpages to 20gb mp4s directly into the browser. This will get you started https://github.com/prettydiff/webserver/ 5. Create symlink between your web page root and your file share. Now your files are available via…

comment by austin-cheney · 2024-08-10 · in Ask HN: Simple web server with drag and drop upload?

…Universal TCP/TLS proxy that can stream any protocol in a few lines as possible: https://github.com/prettydiff/webserver/blob/main/lib/transm... Good luck

comment by austin-cheney · 2024-08-05 · in Ask HN: Someone please give me a webapp idea to make for a school project