Stream: general

Topic: Help recalling a caching tool

Rob Hoelz (Mar 18 2025 at 15:38):

Hi everyone! I swear I remember hearing about a tool mentioned on an episode, but all of my efforts to find it via transcripts have come up short and I was hoping others here might remember. I think it may have been Nick or Jerod mentioning it on a episode covering different tools, and I think it may have been in a Neovim setup around language server configuration, but IIRC the idea is that you'd use it to run commands or hit upstream API and it would cache the output/reponse for you, and I think maybe there was even mention of it serving stale results? Does that ring a bell with anyone?

Jerod Santo (Mar 18 2025 at 15:44):

Maybe the old VCR ruby gem? I brought that up on Kaizen 17

Rob Hoelz (Mar 18 2025 at 18:41):

Oh, that's a good tool, but I don't know if that was the one I had in mind!

Jerod Santo (Mar 18 2025 at 18:59):

I don't recall anything in the context of Neovim. Sorry.

Rob Hoelz (Mar 18 2025 at 19:34):

That's ok - thanks for chiming in!

Sukhdeep Brar (Mar 18 2025 at 22:06):

A semantic search of Changelog transcripts would be neat for things like this...

Joe (Mar 19 2025 at 03:52):

I bet you’re thinking of Varnish: https://varnish-cache.org/

Mentioned on a Kaizen podcast I think

Joe (Mar 19 2025 at 03:53):

Nevermind (should have read the whole original post :sweat_smile:), Varnish is unrelated

Nabeel S (Mar 19 2025 at 05:37):

I almost suggested varnish too :joy::joy:

Sukhdeep Brar (Mar 19 2025 at 19:15):

After talking to Copilot in the transcript repo, I think you're thinking about Dredd (http://dredd.org/en/latest/)
Transcript link: https://github.com/thechangelog/transcripts/blob/6d5ae085b23bd591d33bcf8780adfa0e4498dc43/gotime/go-time-5.md?plain=1#L276-L304

Rob Hoelz (Mar 19 2025 at 22:03):

That _does_ sound a little familiar, but that's from Go Time #5 - I don't think I mentioned in my original post, but this was within the last year or so

Rob Hoelz (Mar 20 2025 at 13:35):

Thanks for thinking about this, everyone! I did some combing through the transcripts, and the closest thing I can find is the null-ls language server, so maybe that was it? I think I just need to let it go :sweat_smile:

Last updated: Apr 03 2025 at 23:38 UTC