alt.hn

7/22/2026 at 3:28:34 AM

Tangleflow: Converts GitHub Actions workflows to tangled workflows and back

https://github.com/43081j/tangleflow

by wertyk

7/24/2026 at 12:29:39 PM

I have never heard of tangle before - are many people using it? What are peoples opinions of it?

by tajd

7/24/2026 at 3:41:51 PM

I'm playing around with it. I self-hosted the Tranquil PDS (personal data server, part of AT Proto), a knot (git repositories), and a spindle (CI runner) on my home server. It was all relatively easy to set up but even in the week that I was bringing it up I found bugs and then saw those bugs get fixed so they're earning the "alpha" badge on their website. I'm not using it for anything load bearing yet but I like the idea at a high-level, though it remains to be seen how well code hosting fits into the AT Proto model.

https://tangled.org/tranquil.farm/tranquil-pds

https://docs.tangled.org/knot-self-hosting-guide

https://docs.tangled.org/spindles#self-hosting-guide

edit: TIL HN doesn't support markdown, why does this surprise me every time.

by MerrimanInd

7/24/2026 at 12:46:50 PM

It's quite a cool technical concept, and I really like their design sensibility, but don't know anybody using it "in prod".

by crimsoneer

7/24/2026 at 3:31:54 PM

It's also VC backed so you know it'll turn bad sometime in the future.

by satvikpendem

7/24/2026 at 5:32:52 PM

It's also fully open source and you can self-host your data while interacting with everyone else like it's GitHub

by LelouBil

7/25/2026 at 7:06:39 AM

Until they rugpull, like many VC backed OSS projects over the years, I imagine.

by satvikpendem

7/24/2026 at 1:25:19 PM

you can visit https://tangled.org/timeline to view activity without logging in

by nerdypepper

7/24/2026 at 3:08:41 PM

Aww, I thought this might be a literate programming wrapper around grotesque yaml action programming...

by e12e

7/24/2026 at 5:08:00 PM

It’s an attempt to shove AT Proto - which no one wants - into everything

by sausagefest

7/24/2026 at 12:50:01 PM

Pro-tip if you're a Tangled newbie: migrating knots and spindle on your Tangled PDS before building Bobbin?

Remember that Bobbin "is only a glorified edge index, in the graph theory sense. Additionally it has a record cache, re-filled on demand. All other data that Bobbin serves comes live from PDSes & knots."

You want to first nixery bao proxy spindle with AppRole credentials, then xrpc your punchcard via ATProto. The docs explain all of this clearly, so be sure to read them thoroughly.

https://docs.tangled.org/bobbin#building-bobbin

by themgt

7/24/2026 at 1:22:43 PM

the blogpost about bobbin is an engineering deep dive. you don't need to know any of this to use tangled.

by nerdypepper

7/24/2026 at 1:07:33 PM

Knots? Spindle? Bobbin?

And they say skeuomorphism is dead.

by officialchicken

7/24/2026 at 1:03:04 PM

FWIW, I really like what Tangled is doing and I agree that we need a federation of forges. Which is why, I am planning to use ATproto too for public repositories in the code forge I am building, https://juju.bi

by pksunkara