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thanks! ikr. i had the same exp which im sure imspired this approach.
the functional approach makes it easier for readability and debugging.
Functional JSX-Syntax for Webcomponents.
I made something to try out for "funtional webcomponents" with vanillaJs. I'm working towards a UI framework for my personal projects. It's far from finished but i thought it might be an interesting concept to share.
Functional JSX-Syntax for Webcomponents.
I made something to try out for "funtional webcomponents" with vanillaJs. I'm working towards a UI framework for my personal projects. It's far from finished but i thought it might be an interesting concept to share.
thanks for the tip!
i havent tried affiliate marketing before. it seems NordVPN is poplar. i'll investigate the options.
My website is starting to rank higher in a few search-engines, but i dont know what to do with it.
i created a blog and website to help get traction on my project.
its called positive-intentions.com i originally got it because it was a cheap domain and was/is a placeholder for my poject before i make time to do something like branding.
when i previously searched "positive intentions", my site was listed on something like page 4 of google. most of the results were things related to mental health, meditation, etc. i took a look the other day and i notice it now on the first-ish page of search-engines. i guess this is a result of my talking about my app mainly on reddit but a few other platforms.
id like to know how i can take advantage of this. i previously had google ads on the website, but i disabled it because i think it deterred users when they saw tracking scripts in the website. i now have a reasonable approach where i can provide the app with/without external scripts. so id like to reconsider re-enabling ads.
however i dont think google a
P2P E2EE messaging and file-transfer
https://positive-intentions.com/
A webapp for P2P E2EE messaging and file transfer. its a fairly unique approach to secure messaging.
the project isnt ready to replace any existing apps or services, but given the competative market for this kind of project, id like to push it out to get feedback.
i made an attempt to create documentation on the website, but otherwise feel free to reach out with questions about how it works.
P2P E2EE messaging and file-transfer
positive-intentions.com positive-intentions | positive-intentions
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https://positive-intentions.com/
A webapp for P2P E2EE messaging and file transfer. its a fairly unique approach to secure messaging.
the project isnt ready to replace any existing apps or services, but given the competative market for this kind of project, id like to push it out to get feedback.
i made an attempt to create documentation on the website, but otherwise feel free to reach out with questions about how it works.
yeah its very similar. mine is presented as a webapp for the extra convienience. im also in the process of getting it in the play store, but i dont have any idea of when it could be ready for that.
thats sounds like a great idea. i'll investigate the options.
Browser-Based P2P File Transfer With WebRTC
hey,
i created a browser-based tool for p2p file transfer where it doesnt use any backend for storage. instead, it relies on storage provided by the browser.
https://file.positive-intentions.com/
its still a work in progress, but id like to know your thoughts. it isnt open source, but its largely based off another project which does P2P messaging (its just called "chat"). my intentions with this new app, is that i will aim for this to be a B2B SaaS product, but until i set up login+subscription, its free-to-use. id love to get feedback on features you would find useful.
i have some documentation, but im also sure that it isnt very clear. so feel free to ask any questions about how it works.
the landing page is also largely based off the "chat" project. https://positive-intentions.com/docs/file . i will try to make more time to improve the landing page experience.
thanks for your questions. i have a few links to share i hope will help answer your questions. but i will also try to answer them here. i think there is much to say, but i will try to keep it brief.
- How is it hosted? What is the network topology? Which Trent must be trusted?
- https://positive-intentions.com/blog/statics-as-a-chat-app-infrastructure/
- https://positive-intentions.com/blog/decentralised-architecture/
- the app is hosted from me on AWS S3. the app is predominantly emphesising on browser-based client-side functionality for things like data storage, webrtc and cryptography.
- same app is also hosted on github pages to show how users can take more control over their version of the chat app.
- id like to make more time into investigating resiliancy by having federated modules hosted on multiple cloud providers. (currently its only on s3 and gh-pages)
- Has the cryptography been audited? What are the primitives and protocols used? What kinds of guarantees, aside from basic privacy, are actually established?
- https://positive-intentions.com/docs/research/threat-model/
- https://github.com/positive-intentions/cryptography
- the cryptography is a federated modules as seen above. its intended to be a thin wrapper over the cryptography offering from a typical browsers as described here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SubtleCrypto
- im actively looking for feedback on the cryptography and would like to have it audited by a professionals. im currently in the process for asking for support from https://www.opentech.fund/labs/security-lab
- as a sideproject, i dont want to undermine the efforts ive put into it, but i dont know what i can say for what i can guarantee. making the project open source is a big step towards clarity in how it works. at this early stage in development. i expect there will be breaking changes as i make changes and improvements. its important to note this project is a work in progress.
- What happens during a disaster? Am I easy to dox, track, etc.? What bad things happen if somebody takes my phone from me?
- https://github.com/positive-intentions/chat?tab=readme-ov-file#security-and-privacy-recommendations
- maybe the threat model i linked previously can help answer that.
- there is not registration database to hack so nothing traditionally centralized to be hacked. on the website im using google analytics. on the app itself is using nlevel-analytics.
- a user profile in the context of the app is entirely browser-based and can be removed as simply as clearing site-data on any modern browser.
- the user profiles can also be exported an imported. this functionality in the app is a bit flaky at the moment but it is intended to be a feature. ive tested it out enough to know its works. i would like to make it more robust.
- im separately investigating having data encrypted at rest in the browser: https://programming.dev/post/21417459 (this investigation is far from finished, but is something i would like to introduce to this app)
“P2P encrypted” doesn’t sound like actual security
here is a previous post i made on the matter: https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/1fmoykr/secure_and_private_encrypted_p2p_chat_in
i hope this answers your questions. please feel free to ask more questions for clarity. i will do my best to answer them.
Selfhosted P2P File Transfer & Messaging PWA
App: https://chat.positive-intentions.com/
A p2p encrypted file transfer and messaging app. Here are some features below:
- Open Source
- Cross platform
- PWA
- iOS, Android, Desktop (self compile)
- App store, Play store (coming soon)
- Desktop
- Windows, Macos, Linux (self compile)
- run
index.htmlon any modern browser
- Decentralized
- Secure
- No cookies
- P2P encrypted
- No registration
- No installing
- Messaging
- Group Messaging (coming soon)
- Text Messaging
- Multimedia Messaging
- Screensharing (on desktop browsers)
- Offline Messaging (in research phase)
- File Transfer
- Video Calls
- Data Ownership
- Self Hosting
- GitHub pages Hosting
- Local-Only storage
Check it out!
Selfhosted P2P File Transfer & Messaging PWA
App: https://chat.positive-intentions.com/
A p2p encrypted file transfer and messaging app. Here are some features below:
- Open Source
- Cross platform
- PWA
- iOS, Android, Desktop (self compile)
- App store, Play store (coming soon)
- Desktop
- Windows, Macos, Linux (self compile)
- run
index.htmlon any modern browser
- Decentralized
- Secure
- No cookies
- P2P encrypted
- No registration
- No installing
- Messaging
- Group Messaging (coming soon)
- Text Messaging
- Multimedia Messaging
- Screensharing (on desktop browsers)
- Offline Messaging (in research phase)
- File Transfer
- Video Calls
- Data Ownership
- Self Hosting
- GitHub pages Hosting
- Local-Only storage
Check it out!
Selfhosted P2P File Transfer & Messaging PWA
App: https://chat.positive-intentions.com/
A p2p encrypted file transfer and messaging app. Here are some features below:
- Open Source
- Cross platform
- PWA
- iOS, Android, Desktop (self compile)
- App store, Play store (coming soon)
- Desktop
- Windows, Macos, Linux (self compile)
- run
index.htmlon any modern browser
- Decentralized
- Secure
- No cookies
- P2P encrypted
- No registration
- No installing
- Messaging
- Group Messaging (coming soon)
- Text Messaging
- Multimedia Messaging
- Screensharing (on desktop browsers)
- Offline Messaging (in research phase)
- File Transfer
- Video Calls
- Data Ownership
- Self Hosting
- GitHub pages Hosting
- Local-Only storage
Check it out!
thanks for the tip. youre right i think i need to do more housekeeping there. i dont give it much attention, because as a solo project, id mostly just be doing it to myself with admin stuff.
i previsously made an attempt for things like issues, but it doesnt seem to have made any different and is just an additional overhead that im ignoring: https://github.com/positive-intentions/chat/issues
i used to pay more attention to it, but its only my time being wasted if nobody else is interested (thats fine... but it results in the amount of attention i give it. and i have a lot of things to do already when i dont have enough time for it)
thanks for your thoughts!
a scenario so that people who aren’t immediately familiar ‘get’ what it is you’re achieving
i think the ability to tell a story is important here and id like to put more time to learn how to frame it. its a very secure chat implementation from what i understand about what ive created. im keen to be challenged on if its the most secure chat app out there, but this typically seen as confrontational and seems to hurt public opnion of the project (and thus i dial it down).
here is an attempt to try explain it as "more secure than mainstream solutions": https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptography/comments/1evdby4/is_this_a_secure_messaging_app
while i think i have a point about the security implementation. im also aware that the project is not very user friendly and full of bugs which makes for a very unappealing product.
its worth noting, that im trying to communicate about the project to cybersecurity professionals at the moment to see if the theory hold up and i think it does. i iteratively improved the UI in an attempt to gain traction. as a webdeveloper i know that i can spend more time on the UI that everything else combined, but that wouldnt be a good use of my time compared to some under-the-hood changes for stability and fixes.
thanks! i'll make time to create those.
i took a brief look. this looks like a really good read! thanks for pointing me to it!
thanks! i'll make those changes when i can.
completely understandable conclusion.
it started off as a curiosity, but i think there is something to it. I’m aiming for something that looks and behaves like react, but without the overhead of the react tooling for transpiling.
im not trying to take a share of that market, i come across this solution as pf of the chat app project. id like to build up this ui framework well enough to rebuild the chat proct with it... the chat app is made with react and material UI. with this framework, i am aiming to create a more simplified version of the chat app where the "no need to transpile" is a feature for its transparency. perhaps it doesnt make sense right now without the ability to effectively demonstrate it.
thanks. i think then i should continue as im going and see where i end up.
thanks for you thoughts.
i previously didnt have the "unstable" warning. this results is people saying that i should make it more clear. i think the project is in its early enough stages for it to be sensible to include there. im already planning on breaking changes which could make things worse so this is something i hope make it clear to users about the status of the project. before i had that notice, i would get complains from people that the app is terrible and doesnt work (which was basically true because it still is a work in progress and full of bugs.). i added a bit of a polish on it so it leads people to think its a finished product.
im looking for contributors on the dim repo because there part things i would like to do (and tried), but reached the limits of what i understand. i can learn and figure it out if i pour more time into it, but i have already poured time into it. im hoping someone with relevent experience would want to help.
im hoping to get a following on lemmy, mastodon, reddit in order to get traction on the projects. as it stand its just me and so its a bit of an uphill to get traction on something like the chat project. what you might be interpreting as ego, is a mannerism i have to adopt if i want to actively promote it as being a "secure chat system". otherwise, feedback is a lot more dismissive about the project. that would surely sink the project immidiately.
im a developer not a sales person... but since working on these project ive learnt to moderate how cautious my tone should be to balance the communication of technical details as well as promoting something. i dont think i do the best job of it, but im still in the learning process.
ive tried several variations in how to communicate about it.
with blog link/with repo link/with a mix
https://programming.dev/post/21417457
it seems my projects are well recieved, but i guess it just isnt interesting for the minority of developers that would consider contributing. i also dont explicitly ask for contribution. this post this the first time im doing that to see what it could yield.
https://github.com/positive-intentions/chat https://github.com/positive-intentions/dim
i dont think my documentation is as clear as it could be, but i dont think its unclear: https://positive-intentions.com/blog/dim-functional-webcomponents
i think i have put efforts towards a good landing page, readme, documentation etc. id appriciate if you critique those.
thanks. maybe i havent reached the point at which people are using my projects enough for them to to improve a part of it.
thanks for the tips.
i typically mention the git repo's involved.
i'll give it a go with something like contribution welcome. my projects are on github and i think i have something setup for issues tracking.
i suspect my projects might be a bit complicated and so unappealing to a random contributor.
its further described by this previous post: https://programming.dev/post/23381812 ... to put it simply, its a javascript UI framework.
i have another project https://github.com/positive-intentions/chat ... but that project is very complicated. too complicated for me to easily explain how it works.
How do i ask for contributors to my open source projects?
id like to ask if there is some guideline/advice for asking for open source contributions.
initially i thought i could just have open source code, documentation and communicate about it, but that doesnt seem to work for gaining contributors.
maybe there is something else im overlooking?
contributors would be using their own valuable time and effort so it could just be that my projects are not interesting enough. it might be worth concluding that i should proceed on this solo.
Thanks for input. I think it could still work without js-painting given that it's using the customElement.define().
I'm aiming for something that looks and behaves like react, but without the overhead of the react tooling for transpiling.
Functional Webcomponents
positive-intentions.com Todo list With Functional Web Components | positive-intentions
I'm working on creating something I can call "functional web components".
I'm creating a JavaScript UI framework for my own projects. It's a learning journey and I'd like to share my progress.
I've written some blog posts about my progress so far:
- Functional Web Components - https://positive-intentions.com/blog/dim-functional-webcomponents
- Functional Todo App - https://positive-intentions.com/blog/dim-todo-list
- Async State Management - https://positive-intentions.com/blog/async-state-management
- Bottom-up Browser Storage - https://positive-intentions.com/blog/bottom-up-storage
Note: The UI framework is far from finished. I want to share progress to see if there are any outstanding issues I'm overlooking.
Bottom-up Javascript Storage Management
positive-intentions.com Bottom-up Browser Storage Management | positive-intentions
I'm working on creating something I can call "functional web components".
i wanted to see if we can create asynchronous bottom-up state management, we have the basics to put together a state management system. State management solutions in apps typically have ways to persist data.
I wanted to explore if there are any benefits to define and manage state in webcomponents with a bottom-up approach. I wanted to see if it could give a greater flexibility in developing a UI and not having to worry about persisted storage management.
Bottom-up Javascript Storage Management
positive-intentions.com Bottom-up Browser Storage Management | positive-intentions
I'm working on creating something I can call "functional web components".
i wanted to see if we can create asynchronous bottom-up state management, we have the basics to put together a state management system. State management solutions in apps typically have ways to persist data.
I wanted to explore if there are any benefits to define and manage state in webcomponents with a bottom-up approach. I wanted to see if it could give a greater flexibility in developing a UI and not having to worry about persisted storage management.
Bottom-up Javascript Storage Management
positive-intentions.com Bottom-up Browser Storage Management | positive-intentions
I'm working on creating something I can call "functional web components".
i wanted to see if we can create asynchronous bottom-up state management, we have the basics to put together a state management system. State management solutions in apps typically have ways to persist data.
I wanted to explore if there are any benefits to define and manage state in webcomponents with a bottom-up approach. I wanted to see if it could give a greater flexibility in developing a UI and not having to worry about persisted storage management.
javascript encrypted persistance
im working on a javascript UI framework for personal projects and im trying to create something like a React-hook that handles "encrypted at rest".
the react-hook is described in more detail here. id like to extend its functionality to have encrypted persistant data. my approach is the following and it would be great if you could follow along and let me know if im doing something wrong. all advice is apprciated.
im using indexedDB to store the data. i created some basic functionality to automatically persist and rehydrate data. im now investigating password-encrypting the data with javascript using the browser cryptography api.
i have a PR here you can test out on codespaces or clone, but tldr: i encrypt before saving and decrypt when loading. this seems to be working as expected. i will also encrypt/decrypt the event listeners im using and this should keep it safe fro
javascript encrypted persistance
im working on a javascript UI framework for personal projects and im trying to create something like a React-hook that handles "encrypted at rest".
the react-hook is described in more detail here. id like to extend its functionality to have encrypted persistant data. my approach is the following and it would be great if you could follow along and let me know if im doing something wrong. all advice is apprciated.
im using indexedDB to store the data. i created some basic functionality to automatically persist and rehydrate data. im now investigating password-encrypting the data with javascript using the browser cryptography api.
i have a PR here you can test out on codespaces or clone, but tldr: i encrypt before saving and decrypt when loading. this seems to be working as expected. i will also encrypt/decrypt the event listeners im using and this should keep it safe fro
javascript encrypted persistance
im working on a javascript UI framework for personal projects and im trying to create something like a React-hook that handles "encrypted at rest".
the react-hook is described in more detail here. id like to extend its functionality to have encrypted persistant data. my approach is the following and it would be great if you could follow along and let me know if im doing something wrong. all advice is apprciated.
im using indexedDB to store the data. i created some basic functionality to automatically persist and rehydrate data. im now investigating password-encrypting the data with javascript using the browser cryptography api.
i have a PR here you can test out on codespaces or clone, but tldr: i encrypt before saving and decrypt when loading. this seems to be working as expected. i will also encrypt/decrypt the event listeners im using and this should keep it safe fro
Async Javascript State Management
positive-intentions.com Dim: Async State Management | positive-intentions
I'm working on creating something I can call "functional web components".
Interesting idea!