localias VS overmind

I empathize with the author and found the post to be a interesting and concrete example of what it's _actually like_ to try to publish a blog to Mastodon, which is something that I have thought about and read about in abstract. So, thank you sir for writing this up.

One thing to consider would be to try to use Caddy [0], or a tool like localias [1], as a local https proxy. You might be able to run both the mastodon server and your blog software on the same computer and refer to local-only urls like "https://blog.test" and "https://mastodon.test" and have everything work.

I'd be curious to know why the author didn't try this, they seem to be quite knowledgeable of other web technologies so I have to assume there's a problem that I'm not seeing here.

[0] https://caddyserver.com/

[1] https://github.com/peterldowns/localias

Sure, but there are also excellent FOSS solutions for this, such as https://github.com/peterldowns/localias which has the benefit of being cross-platform.

Pretty good overview from Baldur — I don't always agree with everything he writes but this seems relatively correct.

One question I'd ask him (and anyone else reading) is: what are some other options for monetization?

Over the last few weeks I had three different VCs reach out to me about some of the open source projects I've been releasing, and ask me if I'd thought about making a business out of them. I told them that no, based on the problem the software was solving, I didn't see how I could adopt open-core or companion-saas business models, and I wasn't sure how else it could be done while keeping the code open source.

Can anyone suggest a viable business model that would allow:

* Code remains at least source available, ideally open source for non-commercial use.

* I can charge for commercial use.

* Actually doing the licensing is reasonable, ie no spyware or phoning home from the tool.

Wouldn't need to be perfect, I understand that if the code is open source a company could easily fork and use it without paying me. The idea would be to make it zero-headache to pay me for a license if the code is being used by a funded team.

The projects:

* https://github.com/peterldowns/localias

* https://github.com/peterldowns/pgmigrate

Another solution is to use a different tool to drive the Procfile. The one I'm most familiar with is a tool called overmind. If you run your Procfile with overmind, you'll be able to open up a new terminal window and individually connect to any of the processes that are running. So if you want to connect to the web process to debug, you can open up a new window and run overmind connect web, and you'll have a window where you can work with the debugger's prompt.

I recently wrote about Overmind (https://github.com/DarthSim/overmind), a drop in replacement for foreman.

If you've ever used Forman or another local Procfile/process manager, I think you'll love Overmind.

It's basically a more customisable foreman that runs in tmux - which means you can do cool things like tmux into a process and attach a debugger (which is nearly impossible with foreman).

Hope you enjoy the article!

We switched to overmind and it's been great.

Hey, thanks for the comment u/sjieg! I don't have anything to add here, apart from suggesting the Overmind gem (https://github.com/DarthSim/overmind), which I just learnt about from another comment.

I run an app with a bunch of separate processes managed in a Procfile invoked by Overmind (https://github.com/DarthSim/overmind):

```

app-web: cd app && poetry run invoke server

app-vite: cd app && pnpm dev

app-storybook: cd app && pnpm story:dev

api: cd api && poetry run invoke server

docs: cd docs && npm run dev

marketing: cd marketing && source .env && npm run dev

```

Maybe it's my getting older, but I've found it _infuriating_ to remember which process is bound to 3003 vs 3002 vs 3001 and so on. Very grateful for this project so I can save myself a couple seconds of frustration every day — t/y OP for building it!

Use Overmind or cargo-runcc to run multiple commands in a single terminal, instead of running the server and the client in separate terminals

FYI: Your link for Overmind is to the wrong project. The process manager is https://github.com/DarthSim/overmind

The article currently links to a deprecated Angular.js project with the same name (https://github.com/geddski/overmind)

However, as you might expect, managing that becomes a bit of a chore in the long run, this is where my recommendation of Overmind comes in.