Newsletter 02

Vouching, CI logs over SSH, and more

anirudh.fi

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Hello again, Tanglers! It's been a busy few weeks here at Tangled; so busy in fact that we missed last month's newsletter. :D We've shipped a lot, so let's get straight to it.

Vouching and web-of-trust#

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You can now vouch for (or denounce) anyone you interact with on Tangled. Vouched users show a green shield beside their profile picture; denounced users get a red one. These "hats" appear at the points where it matters most — in issues, PRs, and comments — so you can make an informed call before spending time on a review. Vouching is web-of-trust scoped: you only see decisions made by you and the people you trust.

As always, vouch records are public AT Protocol records stored on your PDS.

SSH log tailing#

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You can now tail CI logs right from your terminal! Push to a branch, and the remote now hands you an SSH command right in your terminal:

λ jj git push -c @-
  -- snip --
remote: →  Browse CI logs in your terminal:
remote:    ssh -t -p 3333 tangled.org did:plc:j5hmlfdrwkvtxm7cjmu7j2is 796ecc5b0ce5381ed5b5021e7cc28b4b05e03c92

Paste that into a new shell and you're dropped into a full-blown TUI served over SSH — no installation required. It's built on bubbletea and wish, so it themes with your terminal colors and handles ANSI escape codes correctly because it's writing to a real PTY.

New PR page#

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The pull request creation page got a significant refresh. Go check it out!

New timeline and notification pages#

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We've rebuilt the timeline and notification pages from the ground up. The timeline page now splits Global and Following feeds, and includes new Notifications and Recents columns.

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The dedicated Notifications page now splits "work" and "social" notifications into two separate feeds, helping declutter your inbox.

AT Protocol progress#

We've made meaningful strides on our "ephemeral appview" goal — the milestone where anyone can run a fully backfilled Tangled appview with minimal compute.

Unified feed lexicon. We consolidated comment and reaction records into a pair of new lexicon types: sh.tangled.feed.comment and sh.tangled.feed.reaction.
PR record ingestion. Pull request records (sh.tangled.repo.pull) are now fully ingested through the firehose. Your agents can create pull requests by simply writing records to your (or their!?) PDS!
Repository renames. We teased this in our last newsletter: after switching to DIDs for repo identity, we needed to wire up the rest of the plumbing. That work is done. You can now rename a repository from the settings page. Repository migrations between knots are next on this list.

VM-based CI is in internal testing#

We're currently testing the new spindle engine backed by QEMU micro VMs, with special niceties for Nix. :^) We're not quite ready to open this up yet, but expect it to land for everyone in the coming weeks.

That's it for this issue! As always, you can reply to this email, or find us on Discord.

— Anirudh