I wrote something recently with webrtc to get terminal on failure: https://blog.gripdev.xyz/2026/01/10/actions-terminal-on-fail...

Author here, this was something I wrote for fun/because I wanted to use it. Happy to answer any questions

This is really awesome and I might try it (definitely bookmarked)

This might seem (offtopic?) but you mention railway and how for a 20mb app the costs become almost negligible and I got curious because I usually refer hetzner to be one of the cheapest but still good/well worthy solution

I find the pricing model of railway the most interesting. I am curious if you know of any other alternatives to railway which follow a similar pricing model as well as I'd like to compare if there are more of such cloud providers which provide this (preferably from a service which is more closer to bare metal than y'know cloud providers perhaps if that makes sense)

Thanks! I'm not aware of others offering this pricing model

I’ve been down a similar journey with Fedora Core OS and have loved it.

The predictability and drop in toil is so nice.

https://blog.gripdev.xyz/2024/03/16/in-search-of-a-zero-toil...

Yeah, this is closer to what I do, too. I was surprised not to see a Containerfile in the linked github repo in the article (https://github.com/lthms/tinkerbell)

I found working with normal `dnf` and normal config files much easier than dealing with Ignition and Butane. Plus, working with your image in CI/CD instead of locally fixed my ZFS instability. When Fedora kernel updates, but ZFS doesn't support that version yet, now it fails in GitHub Actions and the container is never built, so there's no botched update that my NAS mistakenly picks up.

Same, it’s been great on living room PC for a console like low maintenance experience

Wezterm is a lot of fun. I played around with notifications and copy/paste which work even through ssh back to the host.

https://blog.gripdev.xyz/2025/01/08/wezterm-easily-copy-text...

Wasn't aware of user-var-changed, cool write-up!

I had used urxvt forever before and the simple solution that works (even for ssh e.g.) is to ring the terminal bell, and urxvt just sets the window urgency hint upon that. I just do that in shell prompt unconditionally because if it's triggered in a focused window, then nothing happens. But if it's from a different workspace, I get this nice visual cue in my top bar for free.

But features like setting urgency isn't available in wezterm (understandable, as it's not a cross-platform thing). I could patch that in the source, but the Emacser in me chose to do something more unholy. By default Lua is started in safe mode, which means loading shared C module is forbidden. I disabled that, and now use a bunch of missing stuff written in Rust and Zig interfaced with cffi. Don't recall ever having a crash so I am surprised by some of the other comments.

Yeah, I use wezterm for remote editing at work because it has the best support for chords over ssh, and everything basically just works out of the box. Really convenient

Have 2 of these for my homelab with the power management extension and they’ve been great, would recommend

Very cool, me and my kids been playing and enjoying it. Nice work!

I’m running bazzite on amd kit and it’s blown me away how nice it is, everything so far has ”just worked”

Perfecting timing, just finished my book.

Loving the site, thankyou

Nice, let me know what you end up with :)

Still a ton of rough spots, so feel free to send me any frustrations (ben@shepherd).