I hate bots, for real… I kind of miss the old days of internet where we could jump in a forum or any community to talk and connect with people. But I kind of get the point of building mechanisms to reduce the “bots infestation”. Things are definitely more complex to visually and/or auditory impaired people. But at least, Lemmy isn’t as annoying as Reddit and people sound genuine.

😅 no worries man, your comment just reminded me a popular saying in my local community; “who watches the watchman”

I think documenting everything is key so people can clearly see the progress. I didn’t know that you could merge the changes to the main branch and that it is a core skill as you mentioned. I kind of noticed exactly what you said “it may change other parts of that file that you didn’t ask for” while doing some tweaks. This AI topic has too many branches and it’s a fascinating topic for debates. Thanks for taking the time to give this advice.

Geez, it’s really hard to have normal conversation nowadays on the internet. There’s this constant skepticism of AI comments, and I get it. Most of the time I just feel like I’m talking to bots. However, I’m surprised that people really take their time to give their opinions here and they seem to be legit. Weirdly enough, I’m quite a positive and enthusiastic person… or at least I’m trying to practice that. There’s been too much negativity around me lately, but who cares about what happens in my life, right haha? Don’t need to explain myself to any one, but just felt like I needed to do.

There’s certainly some homarr influence to that. Specially the icon search and the drag and drop cards. I was also trying to create something that could work as a “main panel” for my applications.

'll keep an eye on it and keep asking around. I’m pretty sure there are better ways to do that.

In this world of technology, applications there are too many areas of expertise required to make things “functional” I’m not sure if I can learn everything required to make applications at the level of the most popular ones. I’m more interested in general knowledge and putting ideas out there. I still think that getting this project to the public even if it’s not that great, is still better than have it just on my computer. So, the main purpose is to hear from people what they think of the project, maybe inspire others with more experience to put their projects out there too. My expectations were pretty low about this project, but it turned out to be a great experience to engage with many people from different background just like you.

No worries, reddwarf. I should’ve pointed out that this project was created using AI. It seems that having a tag for this type of projects can definitely avoid some misunderstandings. I hope you have a great day!

Hi ramielrowe. You made great points here. I’m definitely stepping out of my area of expertise. I also understand that when comes to LLM we must not blindly follow/accept things and having some previous knowledge on the topic you intend to work with, gives you much better results and allow you to spot inconsistencies or more importantly, mistakes. I’m aware of the “positive feedback” that is pretty evident specially on ChatGPT, that’s why I try my best to challenge it. I completely understand your analogy on “cognitive debt”. It’s pretty similar to a reinforcing learning process on humans. If you teach people the “wrong way” and keep reinforcing that without any correction, you know the results.

Regarding the code quality, I’m pretty sure it isn’t top notch, that’s why I’m sharing it here so people who really understand it can point out the flaws and suggest improvements. What I’ve learned so far from the feedback in the comments, is that I need to improve the way I communicate my ideas and the purpose of the application. Since this is my first project, and I’m not very familiar with the dev & tech community, I’m learning the do’s and don’ts along the way.

Hi Thaurin, I appreciate your feedback, I understand that security must be a top priority. I’m glad your pointing it out. If you have any advice on how to improve it, it’ll be more than welcome.

That’s right, I’ve been working on this project for a few weeks. I wasn’t sure if I should commit it to a public repo, but I thought it’d nice to have other people testing it out, and giving their opinion. Honestly, I never used github before, that’s why the account is new. I committed everything at once, when I felt like the application was “functional”.

That’s a great question isn’t it? That’s why I posted it here, so maybe I can find people interested in working on this project and help me out to clean things up, get it more organized, structured and “free of AI slop”. What do you think?

Hi Appoxo, I agree that AI can be slop, but it seems like it’s getting better over time. I’m not claiming that this is a revolutionary new application, it’s more like a prove of concept that I wanted to test out. What does it do? well, you basically have a centralized place to keep tracking of your docker images and get a notification when there’s a new release so you can update it manually or automatically as you wish that’s the main utility of it. There are a few other things but, maybe thye aren’t interesting enough.

Hi markko, you’re right, adding a tag would certainly lower expectations and give more clarity to projects. I’ll add this on the post and to the repo.

I won’t stop just because you’re saying it. You can only “know what you’re doing by doing it”. That’s why I made this project public available so anyone interested in looking at it, modifying it, improving it is more than welcome. I’m not selling it or claiming that I’m an expert. Quite the opposite, I’m looking for people who are genuinely interested in exploring new things and helping people out. I’ll rely on the experience and good will of experts of this community.

Thanks man, appreciate it!

Hi @ramielrowe thanks for the feedback, that’s actually pretty good and I’ll start using it. I understand that all this AI thing can be sloppy, and create more friction than good, but I’m really fascinated by how it can help people with little knowledge to build something that a few years ago would’ve been only possible by experts.

I get your point about giving proper credit to the tools involved, and that’s fair. I’m not trying to pass this off as traditional from-scratch coding. Reducing it to “you did nothing” feels a bit excessive. At the same time, there’s still effort in figuring out what to build, iterating, debugging, and getting something functional out. That’s the part I’m happy about.

Hi Dan, I’m also copying the answer from homelab community.

Thanks for your feedback. Much appreciated. For the first question, you click on add and past the image you’re currently using on your compose so the app creates a card with the current version. It’s a bit manual and tedious at first, but once it’s done, it’s easier to maintain. I think your idea is great to have the app just ¨find your docker-compose and do the work", but I don’t know how to do it yet. I wanted to test it manually first and see how it’d work out.

Vigil tells you if the newer version of the image is a major change or not. If you set it to update your compose automatically it will notify you and create a log, it something goes wrong you can easily revert it from the dashboard. Did I get your question right? Let me know if you meant something else.

Finally, security is an absolute must! I decided to use 2FA because most people won’t need to expose it to the web.They’ll probably use it on LAN. However, I do have adding OIDC (OpenID Connect) in mind, since many people indeed use Authentik, Authelia (these are the ones I’m familiar with). Since this is the early version, I didn’t want to make things too complex and also, I’m vibecoding it, so I’ll certainly need some experts out there to help me out to implement it correctly and safely.

If you have any question, just let me know and I’ll try my best to answer that.

It’s not a bad idea at all to have a label so we could set expectations right. But don’t be too harsh on me ;) Just being able to pull a functional app without much of experience is already a reasonable accomplishment is it?