Have you ever found yourself thinking
- "I wish I could clone myself I'm oversubscribed!"
- "We have such a small team of coders & hackers, how could I force multiply them?"
- "I wonder if I could even leverage my boss or my customer to act as an extra set of hands?"
- "If only a button existed that could be clicked that would just do-the-thing..."
Then LEMC is made for you!
In my experience when working on a team of developers or hackers, they often need to perform deterministic tasks, on non-deterministic schedules, and then communicate the results in a streamlined fashion.
Far too often these tasks fall under the domain of DevOps and so something like Rundeck, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Ansible AWX/Tower, Puppet Bolt, SaltStack, Chef Automate, Argo Workflows, or Apache Airflow is implemented to help manage all-the-things. Unfortunately, these pieces of software can take a lot of support and tend to require a DevOps team with specialized knowledge as they are built for the enterprise market. This results in DevOps not acting as an extension of the team but rather its very own department. This causes a lot of friction, creating organizational drag, thus limiting the speed at which the team can ship.
LEMC is built with the belief that in the age of vibe-coding, developers will out-pace their competition when they own their operations.
The ultimate goal being that LEMC would help your organization "Ops their Devs."
LEMC works to free siloed code or business logic. It's the type of code that gets core business work done but tends to sit on someone's computer running under their desk or may need that "special engineer" around to run it manually. And when said engineer is out-of-office, suddenly the organization is screwed.
LEMC allows anyone on your team to take their siloed code or lone-wolf scripts, wrap them in a container, and quickly empower their team to get visual results streamed to the browser right from inside the container at the click of a button. It does this with a few special verbs and the most used programming functions of all time, print or echo.
LEMC is built in anticipation of AI-assisted code generation which helps fast moving teams build and innovate quickly. Forsaking many modern and GUI-heavy solutions, LEMC is a language first solution. This is perfect for LLM vibe-coding sessions.
- Backend: Go (Golang 1.23.0)
- Web Framework: Echo
- Templating: Templ
- Frontend Interaction: HTMX
- Database: SQLite
- Database Interaction: sqlx, mattn/go-sqlite3
- Database Migrations: pressly/goose
- Tailwind CSS tailwindcss
- Scheduling: go-quartz
- Container Interaction: Docker SDK
- Realtime: WebSockets (gorilla/websocket)
- Containerization: Docker, Docker Compose
To contribute to or develop LEMC, you'll need:
- Go: Version 1.23.0 (check
.go-versionor.goenv). - Docker & Docker Compose: For running the application containerized and executing recipes.
- Access to a Docker Daemon Socket: Required for
LEMC's core container interaction features (defaultunix:///var/run/docker.sock). - air: Recommended for live reloading during development (
go install github.com/cosmtrek/air@latest). - templ: Required for compiling
.templfiles into Go code (go install github.com/a-h/templ/cmd/templ@latest). - Git: For version control.
I just wanted to say thanks to Ed Skoudis and the CounterHack.com team for always encouraging me to push myself! To allow for personal time and space to educate and innovate.
Ed you are truly a wonderful man and I'm thankful you are in my life.
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