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by austin-cheney 953 days ago
I wrote this file management utility that displays in the browser but needing some help that otherwise isn’t there.

* Test automation in the browser is generally slow to execute and painful to write so I wrote a new test automation utility that is faster and more durable that is just one file in the browser, one file in Node, and doesn’t backdoor the browser.

* I needed a way to distribute files and unrestricted file system access crossOS securely over the open internet. Nobody does this because there are privacy concerns to sharing file system access to third party servers, so I wrote a new peer-to-peer security model to solve for this excluding third parties.

* I am in the process of rearchitecting the application into an OS so that anybody can their own utilities on top of the infrastructure the application provides. I am doing this for selfish reasons so that I can bolt on new features ad hoc without refactoring the application.