Journal 2025-05-01

Mayday!

Yesterday, indirectly prompted by something Inky danbri was working on, I wound up creating yet another project.

wstore

A simple Node.js HTTP server and command-line client for file storage and retrieval.

Something I wanted for #:semem was an object store. Like a filesystem interface but with slightly more useful, webbier, addressing. I had looked into minion? something like that - a store you could run locally but has the same interface as something AWS. Too much overhead for my purposes. This made me realise what I wanted was really dumb object store. It should also be webbier. D'oh! Just use HTTP + filesystem. I'm working in node (ES modules), Express has this pretty much covered out of the box. GET, POST, PUT, DELETE plus HTTP Basic auth will do me. I set Claude at the task. As a sanity check, and so I had a clue on how to interface with it programmatically, I also wanted a matching CLI client. Basically a simple curl in node.