This looks like a really interesting project! I'll try to catch the stream tomorrow Mahalo (thanks)!
Best, Joshua Fontany On Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 12:57:10 PM UTC-8 [email protected] wrote: > My thanks to Boris for the chance to work together on this project. It > combines many areas interest for me, and I hope the results will be > valuable for the community as a whole. > > Boris is much better at explaining Fission than me, but from 1,000 feet > it’s a user friendly Dropbox-like service for storing files in the cloud, > with the twist that it is based on the IPFS protocol, a fascinating way to > use the techniques behind earlier tools like BitTorrent to build a > distributed cloud filing system. IPFS is quite mature but its adoption has > been slowed by the need to use a special browser, and unavailability on > mobile. Fission adds a front-end to IPFS to make it much easier to use, and > allowing ordinary browsers to participate, while retaining advantages of > IPFS. > > Fission really comes into its own with their application marketplace. > There’s a catalogue of apps that users can choose to authorise, and then > the apps work like ordinary web apps but they have access to a sandbox > within the users filing system. > > The first part of this project it to be able to use Fission as a host for > working with TiddlyWikis, saving changes directly back to the Fission > filing system. The deeper motivation is to enable TiddlyWiki developers to > deploy their own TiddlyWiki on Fission apps as a simple way to publish them > and make them available to users without the usual download and > configuration. > > The TiddlyWiki on Fission app is actually itself a TiddlyWiki with > extended capabilities to interact with the Fission filing system. We're > using these capabilities to present a TiddlyDesktop-like user interface for > configuring the wikis to be edited. Anybody will be able to use the same > capabilities to build a new class of TiddlyWiki-based apps that can > interact directly with user data. > > The technicalities of the saver for this project are quite interesting. > Most importantly, it’s not at all Fission specific, but a new generic > component that will be useful for other new saving mechanisms. The editor > part of the Fission app uses an <iframe> element to host the TiddlyWiki > document. The core includes a new saver which uses > window.parent.postMessage() to send data to be saved out of the iframe to > the Fission app which then saves the data to the filing system. > > I hope some TiddlyWiki people will be able to join the call tomorrow to > see a demo and discus things further. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy. > > On 17 Feb 2021, at 19:31, Boris Mann <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > I wanted to introduce myself. I’m the founder of Fission, which is an app > publishing platform that is open source and “serverless”, where we make > everything work in the browser. I’ve also used and tinkered with TiddlyWiki > for many years. > > I’m working with Jeremy to add support for our webnative SDK to > TiddlyWiki, so that people can use it as a saver that should work anywhere > that you have access to a browser, including on mobile. > > We also want to talk to anyone that wants to host / run customized > TiddlyWikis or Editions. Our goal with Fission is to empower digital > creators to run their own apps, including selling them to people, without > having to build an entire SaaS platform. > > The TiddlyWiki forum on the Fission Discourse > <https://talk.fission.codes/c/apps/tiddlywiki/57> is where we’re going to > be discussing features and functions, plus I’ll be here in the Google Group > as well. > > I’d like to invite you all to come to a live video chat tomorrow, Feb > 18th, at 9am PST / 12pm EST / 1800 CET. You can sign up here to attend > Fission > Demo Day Feb 2021 - Zoom <https://lu.ma/vhtwkxva> > > P.S. If you stop by the forum, say hello to Flag Cat > <https://talk.fission.codes/t/introducing-flag-cat-tiddlywiki-on-fission-mascot/1578>, > > the first mascot for TiddlyWiki + Fission. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/333e972b-3796-4595-bc09-af5f7dc659d4n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/333e972b-3796-4595-bc09-af5f7dc659d4n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/e27b5b38-5fe6-4c5e-8b4e-58b80209787fn%40googlegroups.com.
