This was originally sent as an email.
Hello Tanglers! We're excited to kick off the first ever issue of our newsletter. We haven't settled on a cutesy name for it yet — "untangled"? Or simply "tangled weekly"? Let us know!
If you're new here (how'd you end up on our list?!), Tangled is a new social coding platform. You can host Git repositories, collaborate with friends, and self-host your git remotes (knots) and CI runners (spindles). We recently raised €3,8M ($4.5M) in seed financing and have been heads-down building.
With that out of the way, here's what we shipped recently.
Repository search is live#
We finally have it. You can now search for your favourite slopware at tangled.org/search (or from the 🔍 icon in the top nav).
Fresh new OpenGraph images#
Étienne helped us ship ogre — the new
OpenGraph Rendering Engine. It's what's behind our lovely link previews
that you may have seen elsewhere already.
PR review improvements#
Lewis, our most recent addition to the team (based out of Helsinki!), shipped these handy PR review improvements! You can multi-line select to reference relevant code in review comments, and mark files that you've already looked at as "reviewed". Nifty!
knotmirror and other planned features#
Seongmin, our engineer from South Korea 🇰🇷, built our new repository indexer service: knotmirror.
Knotmirror is our first of many performance optimizations for repo viewing & fetching on tangled. It attempts to fetch and index all known git repos across knots, allowing the appview (the main service at tangled.org) to serve repos much faster, regardless of where your knot lives!
Up next, we're working hard towards:
- First implementation of VM-based CI to enable more advanced workflows. This will be a new spindle engine likely backed by QEMU. At least initially. We'll let you know when we ship it!
- Vouching: Tangled aims to be foundational infrastructure for the future of open source dev — and having first-class tooling for the slopocalypse is paramount. The web-of-trust model has proven to be rather powerful here and that's coming to Tangled very soon.
- Fully achieve full AT Protocol compliance. One of our internal goals is to have a Tangled appview that anyone can run, with complete backfill and ingestion — dubbed the "ephemeral appview". We're not quite there yet: repos are the tough part. We recently swapped to using DIDs to identify repos, which gets us one step closer to being able to rename them, transfer them between knots, and finally ingest them through the firehose.
That's all for now! We'd love to hear your thoughts on this newsletter — you can reply to this email or join our Discord to let us know. We'll also publish this on our blog for those that prefer RSS.
— Anirudh