[tahoe-dev] eating my own dog food -- Zooko's hlog

[Aleksandr Milewski]

On Jul 29, 2008, at 3:13 PM, zooko wrote:
>
> The cool thing is, of course, that it is stored on a Tahoe grid (the
> Tahoe test grid), and the computation is done in JavaScript in my web
> browser, so it is a decentralized web app.

I started to write up a message about this the other day and got  
sidetracked.

On Monday, someone asked me about a cross-platform and/or web-hosted  
To-Do style app. I knew that the person asking was a TiddlyWiki fan,  
so I gave him an instance of Zooko's modified TW. This uses http PUT  
to store itself back into the grid.

It hadn't occurred to me how powerful this was until I tried it on the  
iPhone. As some of you may know, the iPhone doesn't have a user  
accessible file system, and the barrier to deployment of applications  
that can use local storage is non-trivial.

Using Tahoe for persistent storage enables a whole range of  
interesting web applications that could be accessible from anywhere  
that has connectivity, and all the usual benefits of storing things on  
Tahoe (redundancy, security) still apply.

There are a couple of bugs that I've noticed in the current  
implementation. At the same time, there is a newer version (2.4) of  
TiddlyWiki. I'd like to ask Zooko if he can express his changes to TW  
as a patch that I can try to work into 2.4, and we can debug from there.

-Zandr