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Status Update 2022/9/22

From experimentation, it looks like any server side "+page.ts" or similar, only runs once per application.

Note to self, to use require within sveltekit, run:

import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);

// sibling-module.js is a CommonJS module.
const fs = require('fs');

I wanted to make a config file in the main directory, but I realized that it won't work there, because sveltekit packages the app before runnig it, so I think it has to go into the src/ directory which is a little weird.

Looked for authentication libraries for handling user sign in:

https://github.com/Dan6erbond/sk-auth Example app is broken: https://github.com/Dan6erbond/sk-auth/issues/94 Not sure if the rest of it works, since it's based on an older version of sveltekit

https://github.com/pilcrowOnPaper/lucia-sveltekit A little complicated to setup. From https://lucia-sveltekit.vercel.app/getting-started

Apps using Lucia cannot be deployed to edge functions (CloudFlare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions) because it has a dependency on Node's crypto module and other Node native APIs. Tried netlify to see if it applies to me. Netlify seems to work, but since I'm not using the lucia code (only imported it as a dependency), so I'm not sure if it's actually going to.

Got an initial site up, sign up does NOT work. Don't expect much, but if you want to see my progress, it here: https://captaindirgo.com

Source code for the web server is now here and is here: https://github.com/captaindirgo/captaindirgo-webapp/

I was thinking about how the network is going to managed. Although, I don't mind being the sole owner of the entire thing, if the ball really starts rolling and it gets big, I don't think it's good to only have me run it. Therefore, I'm thinking of making a sort of trust system.

I wrote about this before, but the idea is that to start off with, there would be one master, me, who would have so many "trust points", lets say 1 million. Then I could give them to others to generate private keys with. In fact captaindirgo.com would obtain a certain limited number of these points, but not all, maybe 1000

In this way, if captaindirgo.com was seized or taken off line, the master key would still hold a majority of points and I'd be able to create a new site, maybe some other way, using tor, etc. to keep the network up.

In addition, eventually I would hope to get other trustworthy people to hold trust points themselves, so that I could give away enough that I am not the single authority ruling the whole system.

This does, of course, sound a lot like a crypto token, and I will have to research more into different crypto networks to see if I can use one to bootstrap this idea, or maybe tweak my idea in order to make the network as resilient as possible.

From experimentation, it looks like any server side "+page.ts" or similar, only runs once per application. Note to self, to use require within sveltekit, run: import { createRequire } from 'node:module'; const require = createRequire(import.meta.url); // sibling-module.js is a CommonJS module. const fs = require('fs'); I wanted to make a config file in the main directory, but I realized that it won't work there, because sveltekit packages the app before runnig it, so I think it has to go into the src/ directory which is a little weird. Looked for authentication libraries for handling user sign in: https://github.com/Dan6erbond/sk-auth Example app is broken: https://github.com/Dan6erbond/sk-auth/issues/94 Not sure if the rest of it works, since it's based on an older version of sveltekit https://github.com/pilcrowOnPaper/lucia-sveltekit A little complicated to setup. From https://lucia-sveltekit.vercel.app/getting-started `Apps using Lucia cannot be deployed to edge functions (CloudFlare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions) because it has a dependency on Node's crypto module and other Node native APIs. ` Tried netlify to see if it applies to me. Netlify seems to work, but since I'm not using the lucia code (only imported it as a dependency), so I'm not sure if it's actually going to. Got an initial site up, sign up does NOT work. Don't expect much, but if you want to see my progress, it here: https://captaindirgo.com Source code for the web server is now here and is here: https://github.com/captaindirgo/captaindirgo-webapp/ I was thinking about how the network is going to managed. Although, I don't mind being the sole owner of the entire thing, if the ball really starts rolling and it gets big, I don't think it's good to only have me run it. Therefore, I'm thinking of making a sort of trust system. I wrote about this before, but the idea is that to start off with, there would be one master, me, who would have so many "trust points", lets say 1 million. Then I could give them to others to generate private keys with. In fact captaindirgo.com would obtain a certain limited number of these points, but not all, maybe 1000 In this way, if captaindirgo.com was seized or taken off line, the master key would still hold a majority of points and I'd be able to create a new site, maybe some other way, using tor, etc. to keep the network up. In addition, eventually I would hope to get other trustworthy people to hold trust points themselves, so that I could give away enough that I am not the single authority ruling the whole system. This does, of course, sound a lot like a crypto token, and I will have to research more into different crypto networks to see if I can use one to bootstrap this idea, or maybe tweak my idea in order to make the network as resilient as possible.

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