adama-lang VS awayto

I'm just a tryhard. However, I've been coding since a child out of a weird love/obsession. Nothing super successful in the public space, but I retired at 40 to spend time building my cathedral: https://www.adama-platform.com/

my history: https://www.adama-platform.com/2024/01/28/euler.html

I'm in the camp of f = ui(state), and the reason for this is the extreme of streaming games where UI = frame buffer. I'm inventing my own framework for radically simplifying traditional Web apps via RxHTML which works great for crud apps. However, games requires more insight into state machines and what-not.

In terms of the logic, I wrote an entire platform to simplify multi-player board games which I'm evolving to tackle various businesses. https://www.adama-platform.com/

For context, I was not raised religious at all and kind of thought a bunch of it was hokum.

But then I did a heroic dose, and I went to the church of engineering where I saw the entire construction of the machines use from the transistor all the way up to the platform I'm building.

My faith is more a faith that humanity is worth it, and I've come to see "The Lord" as an appropriate metaphor for the collective conciseness of several billion people living their lives.

At core, I'm rejecting nihilism as a valid way to live, and I'm writing an essay to outline the way.

In this, I also reject cynicism, and this is because it offers nothing.

The way forward is to embrace the responsibility that comes with great knowledge and to build an organization that helps push technology forward. This is why my platform is open source ( https://www.adama-platform.com/ ), and I'm working very hard to get my handful of clients in a good place.

I'll take the bait and provide evidence on why you should write a programming language.

First, it's technically very difficult, but you will gain deeper insight into the art of the craft. So, if you are a TC chaser or career minded person, then spending half a year writing a language will help you master the coding aspect of the game. I've started many languages since I started college, and each one was instructional. (I'm now 40 and an early retiree)

Second, it's fun.

Third, it may turn into something new. If some people don't write a new programming language, then we are stuck with what we have. This advice basically admits that the status quo is good enough.

The authors saying that the language, as a project, is a lifetime appointment? Well, this reveals everything. I believe if you want to do a programming language, then you must be willing to invest at least a decade or two.

So, here, I am at forty preparing to launch a SaaS around a language that I designed ( http://www.adama-lang.org/ ). The kicker, I believe, is that a project like this requires wandering the desert alone for quite a while.

I'm preparing to launch, and I just started to load test my shiny new production cluster. Low and behold, it sucks. Fortunately, I have a tremendous number of dashboards and isolated it to how I'm interacting with RDS. I've got my work cut out for me which I'll write about.

However, I have a potentially interesting business precisely because I evolved a language which solved a niche use-case. The number of problems that I have had to solve up to this point is not for the faint of heart. Life and reality are harsh mistress.

So, maybe, yes, you can save yourself some heartache by not writing a language. Perhaps, a better way to think or phase this is "Writing a programming language is a lonely affair that will most likely end in tragedy after a long death march".

I want to make games, but even some years ago I realized it was not a great path for a multitude of reason (many of which are in this article).

My path, and what I recommend, is do something hard and important which pays the bills at a premium. I did infrastructure work, and I was lucky to have a great decade long career allowing me to "retire early".

Now, I can work on a game at my pace building the tools that I see fit. I'm focused on board games because they have a timeless quality about them. I'm developing an entire SaaS platform and programming language to make the network goo beyond easy. http://www.adama-lang.org/

As I'm getting close to some kind of launch for the SaaS, my next thing is to build up my own web based IDE with a release-often ideology such that I can build a Roblox for online 2D board games. Honestly, I'm having a blast because I'm not suffering tools which are going to fade.

I like to call such a list a "wall of shame", and I have my own over here: http://jeffrey.io/wall-of-shame.html

What has helped me over the years is that I view tech as art, and so these projects are only market failures. Your growth as a technologist is manifest, and it's important to see side projects as a form of practice.

If you can move past the failure label and see everything as successful at something, then you feel a whole lot better. A discipline that I have had for decades now is to write a postmortem on why I believe a project is a failure because that crystalizes my learning.

My history helped me excel as a principal engineer which put me towards an early retirement where I can now focus on my ultimate side project: Adama ( http://www.adama-lang.org/ ) which I am turning into a new kind of PaaS thing.

Here is the crazy thing: I already know that I'm making several mistakes as I have no customers and no one asking me for anything. This is an exceptionally lonely way to start a project as the OP and others have noted, but I'm enjoying it well enough.

I'm working on http://www.adama-lang.org/ which started as a programming language for board games, and it is turning into a reactive privacy-focused data store for Jamstack.

I hope to launch in coming month an "Early Access" edition.

While I do intend to turn this into a business, I'm primarily focusing on small projects to amuse myself. I'm going to break every rule in the business with my LLC. The #1 company value is sleep.

I actually think this is onto something that I'm finding in a different way. Instead of a massive database, what if we had a key-value store mapping keys to tiny databases.

This is, to some degree, what I'm building over at http://www.adama-lang.org/ without a full SQL engine. Each document has tables, and the tables can be indexed. I have yet to find a usecase (in my domain) which requires joins. HOWEVER, I've had a ton of fun building it and I'm getting ready to start making games.

I do believe it would be amazing to have a key-logger service where a reducer like sqlite/adama could come into collapse the log into a single file.

The closest I see is from the Boki paper ( https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~zjia/boki-sosp21.pdf ) which was presented at SOSP21.

CRDT solve a part of your problem, and an important consideration is whether or not you want off-line editing. If you don't need off-line editing, then a WebSocket can do it.

I'm actually using my project to build a collaborative IDE (designer like Figma): http://www.adama-lang.org/

I'm going to be launching it as a SaaS soon so people can spin up a new back-end without managing an infrastructure.

Hey folks, just putting this up as a demo link for people to try out. It's a project I've been working on since January and in light of recent framework posts lately I figured I'd start talking about my own.

The link is a demo site of Awayto v2 [1] (ignore the front page info that's all from version 1). Awayto [0] started out as a quick deploy app which grew to exist via AWS. I felt the need to make something that wasn't so closely tied to cloud infra, and Awayto v2 is that. Currently deployed on hetzner vms, using Tailscale for networking, there is a great deal of things going on. There is a local installation path planned, as long as you provide your own servers, etc, as it all just works on Tailscale anyway. I'm still working on docs, but the goal is to spit out _everything_ a dev might want to control in their stack. My current version of deploying to hetzner sets up 7 servers (2 ns, exit, build, app, db, svc). Git profile [2] for more info, tech stack info.

This is just a short demo and will only be up a limited time. There's no email validation or anything, gibberish is welcome. You are not being tracked. I know I need how-to docs, video assists, and all that. Slow and steady. It's being hosted from a single warehouse in the Pacific Northwest, be kind. Caching is in play and not perfectly tuned so maybe wait a few minutes if something doesn't automatically show up. Any feedback is awesome. Cheers!

[0] https://github.com/keybittech/awayto

This is really cool to see in this format. Over the last few years I have spent my free time crafting a framework under similar ideologies. I think a lot of web devs end up making similar tools throughout their career, but perhaps never get to the point of sharing what they make. I finally formalized my framework last year and am well into battle testing it with clients and different projects. https://awayto.dev

In a similar light to what this FWA group is presenting, I also have put forth some points about why this style of web dev architecture is important and effective. https://awayto.blog/posts/webapps/

Actually, I started out reading Million Dollar Consulting last year and one of the first chapters essentially talks about the importance of having a portfolio of work, and being able to capitalize off that body of knowledge within to grow more as a consultant. Well, I took that as a sign to formalize a framework that would allow me to do my development work in a much more effective manner, as well as provide more out of the box functionality for my clients.

Overall, the experience has been really positive. Obviously I don't get to use my own framework with every client, and that's a good thing. But, when working with clients who need basic business problems solved, having an FWA style framework is going to allow you to iterate so much faster than traditional MVC platforms. At least this has been my experience. Specifically to that point, with templated and loosely coupled parts, you don't have to spend too long building your web app to get it to do something exceptional.

Location: Pacific Northwest

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Technologies: Java, C#, Javascript, Typescript, HTML, CSS, React, Redux, Material UI, NodeJS, Webpack, Postgres, Cognito, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, HITRUST, FERPA

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-mccormick-76224429/

Email: [email protected]

My name is Joe. If you are looking for a consulting- or contract-based resource, I am interested and open to take on projects of many varieties. Over the last 10 years, my professional experience has touched on Education, Professional Consulting, IT Management, E-Commerce, and I hold my MA in English teaching. I have helmed numerous, extremely successful software development teams within the companies I have worked at, on projects of large complexity, some with millions of users and in revenue.

Check out https://awayto.dev which is a free open source web application platform. It uses React, Redux, Material UI, NodeJS, Typescript, Webpack, Postgres, Cognito, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, as well as my own custom scripts. Awayto makes it fast to deploy low-cost web applications and then have a skilled developer come in and build up your application.

Thank you for your time.

SEEKING WORK - Pacific Northwest - Contract/Consulting Remote/Onsite

If you are looking for a consulting- or contract-based resource, I am interested and open to take on projects of many varieties. Over the last 10 years, my professional experience has touched on Education, Professional Consulting, IT Management, E-Commerce, and I hold my MA in English teaching. I have led multiple successful development teams within the companies I have worked at, on projects of large complexity, some with millions of users and in revenue.

For my most recent completed work, I created https://awayto.dev, a free open source web application generation platform. It uses React, Redux, Material UI, NodeJS, Typescript, Webpack, Postgres, AWS Cognito, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, as well as my own custom scripts. Awayto makes it fast to deploy low-cost web applications and then have a skilled developer come in and build up your application. https://github.com/keybittech/awayto

Thank you for your time.

Javascript, Typescript, Java, C#, HTML, CSS, HITRUST, FERPA

Inquiries: [email protected] Website: https://awayto.dev LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-mccormick-76224429/

Willing to relocate: For Contract or Consulting Only

Technologies: Java, C#, Javascript, Typescript, HTML, CSS, React, Redux, Material UI, NodeJS, Webpack, Postgres, Cognito, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, HITRUST, FERPA

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-mccormick-76224429/

Email: [email protected]

If you are looking for a consulting- or contract-based resource, I am interested and open to take on projects of many varieties. Over the last 10 years, my professional experience has touched on Education, Professional Consulting, IT Management, E-Commerce, and I hold my MA in English teaching. I have led multiple successful development teams within the companies I have worked at, on projects of large complexity, some with millions of users and in revenue.

For my most recent completed work, I created https://awayto.dev, a free open source web application generation platform. It uses React, Redux, Material UI, NodeJS, Typescript, Webpack, Postgres, AWS Cognito, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, as well as my own custom scripts. Awayto makes it fast to deploy low-cost web applications and then have a skilled developer come in and build up your application. https://github.com/keybittech/awayto

Thank you for your time.

I made a web application generation tool built on top of AWS. It deploys all the basics you need for a web application in the modern era (db, ui, api, users, groups, roles).

https://awayto.dev -- Check out the video

https://github.com/keybittech/awayto

If you like making tools for developers, contractors, and the business world. Come check us out and join the discord!

Hey there, I work on a project called Awayto. It generates and deploys web applications to AWS with all the base line bells and whistles (db, api, ui, user mgmt, react, typescript). I enjoy working on tools for developers and this is a project that's supposed to help developer consultants. It's a full stack framework, and there are of course many ways you could help or be involved, so if it sounds interesting please check it out!

https://github.com/keybittech/awayto

https://awayto.dev

A lot of the comments here are about difficulty cloud tech navigation/adoption. I create a framework built on top of AWS to try to alleviate a great deal of the infra management aspects of running web applications. It sets you up with all the basics out of the box in about 10 minutes (db, api, ui, users, groups, roles).

https://awayto.dev

https://github.com/keybittech/awayto

Along the same vein as other posts in this thread, startups and contractors need instantaneous test bed environments that support a lot out of the gate, and which can be the basis to scale from. I've been a contractor off and on for a few years and have seen this need first hand. So my tool is meant to fill in the foundations of great ideas, so those ideas can grow faster. I think that's an essential trait of cloud services that you will be hard-pressed to find elsewhere.

SEEKING WORK - Pacific Northwest - Contract/Consulting Remote/Onsite

If you are looking for a consulting- or contract-based resource, I am interested and open to take on projects of many varieties. Over the last 10 years, my professional experience has touched on Education, Professional Consulting, IT Management, E-Commerce, and I hold my MA in English teaching. I have led multiple successful development teams within the companies I have worked at, on projects of large complexity, some with millions of users and in revenue.

As a side project, I created https://awayto.dev, a free open source web application generation platform. It uses React, Redux, Material UI, NodeJS, Typescript, Webpack, Postgres, AWS Cognito, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, as well as my own custom scripts. Awayto makes it fast to deploy low-cost web applications and then have a skilled developer come in and build up your application.

Thank you for your time.

Java, C#, Javascript, Typescript, HTML, CSS, PHP, Ruby, Python, HITRUST, FERPA

Inquiries: [email protected]

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: For Contract or Consulting Only

Technologies: Java, C#, Javascript, Typescript, HTML, CSS, React, Redux, Material UI, NodeJS, Webpack, Postgres, Cognito, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, HITRUST, FERPA

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-mccormick-76224429/

Email: [email protected]

If you are looking for a consulting- or contract-based resource, I am interested and open to take on projects of many varieties. Over the last 10 years, my professional experience has touched on Education, Professional Consulting, IT Management, E-Commerce, and I hold my MA in English teaching. I have led multiple successful development teams within the companies I have worked at, on projects of large complexity, some with millions of users and in revenue.

As a side project, I created https://awayto.dev, a free open source web application generation platform. It uses React, Redux, Material UI, NodeJS, Typescript, Webpack, Postgres, AWS Cognito, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, as well as my own custom scripts. Awayto makes it fast to deploy low-cost web applications and then have a skilled developer come in and build up your application.

Thank you for your time.