a few weeks ago I wanted to see if Opus 4.5 could build and improve upon a real open source library from scratch.
so I specced out globlin, a drop-in replacement for glob v13. up to 7.5x faster than glob, and up to 3.2x faster than fast-glob. all powered by Rust.
I defined the architecture, the API surface, every edge case I could think of: broken symlinks, extglobs, Windows drive letters, cyclic directories, permission errors.
kept asking Opus to poke holes until there were none.
then I let it cook.
158 commits. 21,000 lines of code. 1,451 tests across 53 files. cross-platform CI. all green.
it wrote fuzz tests. property-based tests. UNC path tests. macOS sandbox tests. more thorough than most human-written test suites I've seen.
npm install globlin, drop it in, done.
fully open source and MIT licensed under the Cap umbrella.
I don't know how to feel. this is insane. it works.
Hey everyone! Richie here, founder of Cap. After nearly a year of building Cap, we’re thrilled to unveil our latest relaunch.
Back in April, we introduced the first early version of Cap, and the response blew us away. We gained thousands of users, hit #1 on Hacker News (Show HN), and trended on GitHub with over 5k stars. Most importantly, we received incredible feedback that’s shaped the new direction we’re excited to share today.
The star of this release, v0.3.1, is our biggest feature yet: Cap Apps.
These are community-submitted apps that extend Cap’s functionality in exciting ways. The first app launching today is S3 Config, which lets you connect your own S3 bucket. With this, all new shareable links are stored and served directly from your bucket, giving you 100% ownership of your data.
It's easier for us at the start to get some attention from Loom specific users by mentioning Loom directly, but it's not a sustainable strategy going forward.
Will update the marketing copy etc over the coming weeks/months to be more about the problem we're solving specifically.
With any of those you need to upload the video directly into Slack, or something like YouTube, Vimeo, etc. Plausible for short videos, but can become a pain if recording for more than a few mins.
If you record with Cap, we'll auto handle the segmentation of the video so it can be played back efficiently (so the whole video doesn't have to be download in one go).
You can also receive comments on your Cap link, reactions, and see the analytics data.
It just makes it easier. Do your recording, then receive your shareable Cap link in just a few seconds.
Hey HN! I launched Reflio earlier this year as an open-source alternative to some other, bigger affiliate program management tools. I'm really pleased to say that after a while of development, our Reflio:Paddle integration is now live.
This enables everybody who is using Paddle for payments to now integrate with Reflio :)
So with Reflio you just need to connect your Stripe, add the JS tracking script to your site and then your good to go. You can manage multiple different types of affiliate campaigns from one dashboard, and manage all of your affiliates in one place. Your affiliates also get access to their own dashboard so they can monitor their own referrals and commissions.
It just saves you all of the leg work in setting up these systems basically :)
That’s actually a good point :) how would you see this working? Your affiliate gets a unique promo code for your checkout, then if a sale is completed with that promo code, it attributes the referral to that particular affiliate?
so I specced out globlin, a drop-in replacement for glob v13. up to 7.5x faster than glob, and up to 3.2x faster than fast-glob. all powered by Rust.
I defined the architecture, the API surface, every edge case I could think of: broken symlinks, extglobs, Windows drive letters, cyclic directories, permission errors.
kept asking Opus to poke holes until there were none.
then I let it cook.
158 commits. 21,000 lines of code. 1,451 tests across 53 files. cross-platform CI. all green.
it wrote fuzz tests. property-based tests. UNC path tests. macOS sandbox tests. more thorough than most human-written test suites I've seen.
npm install globlin, drop it in, done.
fully open source and MIT licensed under the Cap umbrella.
I don't know how to feel. this is insane. it works.