Beaker Browser (https://beakerbrowser.com <https://beakerbrowser.com/>) is a 
very interesting new browser forked from Chromium that adds the ability to 
serve sites to other browsers over a peer-to-peer network. It seems like a 
perfect fit for TiddlyWiki.

The browser can host a number of sites, each of which is a bundle of files and 
folders. They are served on a protocall called “Dat”, where the URLs look like 
this:

dat://eaec2913b78d11a81a68775068fb3107e9029b746e7cbc6d1a1926190c9f6f05/index.html
 
<dat://eaec2913b78d11a81a68775068fb3107e9029b746e7cbc6d1a1926190c9f6f05/index.html>

My Beaker Browser will serve that URL to other browsers; other Beaker Browsers 
can view the site, and fork it.

I’ve made a brief video that demonstrates how to get up and running in the most 
basic way:

https://youtu.be/SFf3BkxmrCQ <https://youtu.be/SFf3BkxmrCQ>

The video doesn’t show an extremely neat feature called “Live Reload” where 
clients get automatically reloaded when the site changes.

The next step is to use the Dat API to create a saver module for TW5 so that 
one can edit and save directly. The resulting user experience will be just like 
TiddlyFox; saving will just work.

If it’s not clear that I’m quite excited, I think this is the distributed 
TiddlySpot that we’ve been waiting for. The nice simple API would make it a 
great platform for TWederation, for example:

https://beakerbrowser.com/docs/apis/dat.html 
<https://beakerbrowser.com/docs/apis/dat.html>

If you’re interested to try it out, install the software and try the dat: URL I 
gave above. Create your own site and post the URL here.

Best wishes

Jeremy.


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