Journlr
I've started working on a simple project over break. Actually it's a really simple idea, one which can be built in 15 minutes or so with any good screencast on a framework of choice. Then why I am I writing it? Because I can! It's called Journlr. The idea behind it is simple, there are so many places where you can publish thoughts for others to see there is no place to just keep a plain old for my eyes only journal (or none that were astetically pleasing to me). So Journlr! Though, it needs a lot more work especially in the departments of making it "official-looking" it is good enough for general use. I will release incremental updates to fix the sore spots. It uses OpenID so I don't collect any information about you and is intended to get you writing as soon as theoretically possible, so just sign on with OpenID and you are ready to go. The only thing that is in the server is your identity url so if you use a service that obfuscates your identity url you are generally anonymous. However, I feel this isn't good enough for anonymity so I'll be adding client side encryption in the future using JavaScript (especially since Firefox 3.1, Chrome and Safari-Nighly are kicking ass in performance. All I can say about IE, fuck you. your useless now and will be useless in the future... though I have heard Windows 7 is nice...). But the gist of it is that data will be encrypted on the server and all encryption will happen on the client, so all data stored on the server itself will be encrypted. Hopefully, if I have money and this service becomes popular I'll add SSL, but that's a big if right now. This is in the works on a branch on git, but I haven't gotten to it per usual. You might be wondering, "What kind of half assed software is this? It doesn't even have a damn edit button!" Well my angry friend there is a reason for that design. I don't want the filtering of thoughts that are written. We filter too many of our thoughts, even though it is a good thing there are times when we should just write and be done with it: unfiltered, unbiased, pure stream of consciousness. That is what Journlr wants to be, a place where you just write and post once done. If you really need to edit it copy it and post again with all the nuances of reformatting the Textile markup (yes, I'm not going to make it easy on you).
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