Blogly - Progress update
Where I've been
For the past 9 something months I know that I've been completely silent on this, but things are coming along nicely. I've been extremely busy working on various other side projects to experiment on backend development and better ways to make this service work the first time. I believe I'm finally ready to pick this up again.Where we are now
At the moment, I have a more or less "working" version of Blogly (This is the name I've decided on, currently thinking of what the domain name will be.) However, I don't want to use it. My plan is to split the Blogly project into multiple smaller services that will allow me to scale it and add features without creating a massive unmaintainable nightmare. Currently, I've created several "sub-projects" that I'm trying to figure out the details of: XUAUTH, an authentication system that would allow for a single account to be used to access Blogly and other services in the future, and to isolate potentially sensitive user information from other services which may have a larger attack service; Another project I'm working on is Unnamed Side Project #47, an API gateway that will handle connections between multiple services and possibly detect and close connections that may be compromised by an attacker, more details coming soon to a blog near you; Finally, I'm tying to figure out a way to create a backup protocol that would protect from data loss without compromising user security/privacy, I'm thinking a public/private key "time capsule" solution might work, but I have no idea how that would be implemented in practice. You probably noticed, none of these projects have anything to do with the blog, what's up with that? Well, I'm trying to figure out security first so that this doesn't suffer from the privacy nightmare constant data breach problem that other social media services, your data is probably found in at least a hundred clumps of stolen information, I don't want to contribute to that.Closing
Thank you for your patience, this is going to take a long time to get out of the door, but once it's done, I think y'all are really going to like it.See you next time, have a nice day (month? (year?))