What are you working on?

jsalvatier

Whpearson recently mentioned that people in some other online communities frequently ask "what are you working on?". I personally love asking and answering this question. I made sure to ask it at the Seattle meetup. However, I don't often see it asked here in the comments, so I will ask it:

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started, those are for a different thread.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started, those are for a different thread.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable

I loved the idea of Wave, and was sad that it didn't catch on well. I'd love to hear more about your project and/or hear about it when it goes live.

I actually have a demo of an earlier version up on a nameless Amazon AWS micro instance, built with node.js and redis and a rather terrifying amount of JavaScript code:

http://ec2-50-16-79-81.compute-1.amazonaws.com/notepad/931ab120-b66b-4275-a20c-e4d7b70b4c62

There are some weird browser compatibility issues, but it works in vaguely recent versions of Chrome and Safari and Firefox.

There are two parts to it. The core of what I'm making is, essentially, a synchronized string data type: a string where changes are immediately applied locally, and propagate acro... (read more)

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