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[1424.28 --> 1427.26] And at the beginning of March, they announced they were shutting down.
[1427.26 --> 1436.04] And I was beside myself, Alex, and I looked over to you, Alex, and I said, Alex, save us.
[1436.36 --> 1438.42] This is clearly something we should self-host.
[1439.48 --> 1443.32] Well, I think we might have found a solution in a project called Xbin.
[1444.04 --> 1447.90] And this is over on GitHub at midnight slash Xbin.
[1448.16 --> 1450.92] Midnight spelt with a one instead of an I.
[1451.00 --> 1453.40] Just look in the show notes so that there'll be a link there for you.
[1454.00 --> 1455.52] And this project is actually really interesting.
[1455.86 --> 1461.16] It's a very simple interface, which is, you know, what Chris needs after a late night, let's be honest.
[1461.74 --> 1461.84] Yeah.
[1462.08 --> 1464.04] And it just, boom, pops right up, and there's a text field.
[1464.12 --> 1465.24] You just paste the stuff in there.
[1465.28 --> 1465.54] Pow!
[1465.72 --> 1466.10] It's good.
[1466.14 --> 1466.64] It's really quick.
[1466.72 --> 1468.32] And I've actually been working with the developer.
[1468.32 --> 1473.32] I've opened probably more issues than I should have on his GitHub, and he's been honestly fantastic.
[1474.02 --> 1483.10] He's added, just for us, on our request, custom logo support, the ability to moderate comments, as well as a couple of other things as well.
[1483.54 --> 1484.20] That's neat.
[1484.66 --> 1484.90] Yeah.
[1485.06 --> 1498.72] You know, sometimes you just love open source so much that some random guy who I will probably never meet in person is willing to put some time and effort in to help us adopt his thing by adding features that we ask for.
[1498.76 --> 1500.08] It's just so cool.
[1500.48 --> 1501.52] It really is great to see.
[1501.52 --> 1504.42] It's actually so hard to overstate the point you just made.
[1504.62 --> 1515.66] There is an internal tool that we use as a team to produce our shows, and you contact the developer or developers, and they're actually going to implement those features.
[1515.82 --> 1519.68] Think about that in the context of, say, like subscription enterprise software.
[1520.02 --> 1523.94] You could be paying thousands of dollars a year and not get that kind of service level.
[1523.94 --> 1532.20] And it's MIT licensed, so it's a really permissible license, and I just think it's super wonderful to see it.
[1532.40 --> 1534.30] Do we have a demo for folks so they can check it out?
[1534.58 --> 1535.16] We do, yes.
[1535.16 --> 1540.10] We're actually using it for all of our feedback for this episode, so at paste.docs.lol.
[1540.30 --> 1542.40] That's now the Jupyter Broadcasting Pastebin.
[1543.00 --> 1548.20] We're going to just use it for show notes and, well, not show notes, feedback into shows and stuff like that.
[1548.24 --> 1551.92] So I think we're already using it on Coda, but you'll see it in other shows as we go forward.
[1552.56 --> 1556.06] There is an actual official project demo linked in the show notes as well.
[1556.06 --> 1560.60] It's really just a nice, easy-to-use Pastebin clone with some great features.
[1561.08 --> 1568.18] It's written in Phoenix and Elixir, and I think one of the things that's appealing to us is it's pretty easy and straightforward to self-host it.
[1568.38 --> 1570.14] Now, have you seen the stats page that it has?
[1570.16 --> 1577.10] So if you go to URL of your instance slash stats, you can see how many public snippets have been made
[1577.10 --> 1581.58] and the number of views they're getting, the most popular one, all that kind of stuff.
[1581.68 --> 1584.86] I mean, kind of pointless, but also, who doesn't love a good graph, eh?
[1584.86 --> 1591.24] If you want to see ours, you can go to paste.docs.lol, and then it's slash stats, like Alex said.
[1591.72 --> 1593.56] So we've had 11 public snippets.
[1593.84 --> 1598.54] I make most of mine public, so we've done, I guess, 11 emails on this thing so far.
[1599.12 --> 1605.46] It's interesting that what qualifies as popular is eight people viewed one of them, which is really just us.
[1605.54 --> 1606.76] It's just the people in JB.
[1607.58 --> 1609.18] But, you know, it's great that it shows that.
[1609.42 --> 1610.92] It runs in Docker, of course.
[1611.12 --> 1613.58] I wouldn't honestly have looked at it if it didn't.
[1613.58 --> 1615.74] I'm running it up on a Linode.
[1615.90 --> 1621.30] I think it's up to about 15 containers, that single $5 Linode now.
[1621.78 --> 1624.30] It's hard to overstate how awesome that is, really.
[1624.50 --> 1624.60] Yeah.
[1624.80 --> 1628.26] So please be nice to it and don't break it, because it's a tool we use for daily production.
[1628.44 --> 1631.74] And we're opening the Komodo a little bit, telling you about it.
[1631.74 --> 1643.22] And now in a feature that I think may well be aimed exclusively at Wes Payne, you can actually use Netcat to pipe text to Xbin.
[1643.70 --> 1646.62] When I saw that, I was like, this is so for Wes.
[1646.88 --> 1647.84] This is so great.
[1647.90 --> 1649.62] But it's actually just a very quick way.
[1649.62 --> 1657.28] And if you're already on the command line, the fact that you could Netcat something to your self-hosted Pastebin solution, that's a winning feature.
[1657.64 --> 1658.22] I'm sorry.
[1658.32 --> 1658.86] That's great.
[1659.20 --> 1663.60] Now, I know we use HedgeDoc for all of our show notes and stuff and our internal collaboration.
[1663.60 --> 1668.42] But Xbin also has a synced text mode.
[1668.54 --> 1672.52] So, you know, if you click on in the UI, there's a button that says synced.
[1673.00 --> 1682.36] It will give you a five-digit custom code in the URL you give to whoever you want to, you know, watch in real time what you're doing.
[1682.84 --> 1684.66] You know, and I can just type away.
[1684.78 --> 1691.66] And in real time, it will update whoever is looking at that URL, what I'm doing, which for like pair programming or something like that,
[1691.66 --> 1693.68] I can see this being absolutely awesome.
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[1798.46 --> 1802.82] We've got some feedback from Kevin in Belgium.
[1803.46 --> 1804.56] Love the show, guys.
[1804.72 --> 1805.22] Keep it up.
[1805.48 --> 1809.14] In the last episode, there was some talk about pooling different bits of storage over the network.
[1809.76 --> 1812.88] In the past, I've used Greyhole to do this.
[1813.06 --> 1817.80] I was able to pool two different machines into one virtual storage presented via Samba.
[1818.06 --> 1818.46] Brackets.
[1818.72 --> 1819.78] Yes, I know.
[1819.78 --> 1833.16] It worked for me for many years until I switched to one new machine pooling all drives using MergerFS using the, I don't wish to blow my own trumpet here, but the now famous perfect media server guide.
[1834.84 --> 1836.30] Yeah, it is.
[1836.58 --> 1837.40] People love that.