first commit, yo

[nhuber]

I had to withdraw from 106X because I got really behind (mainly due to the personal stuff we've discussed) so would love to have a programming side project for the rest of the quarter. The Experiment Club was an interesting idea, but there's lots of existing ways on campus to get involved and meet people. However, I think working on this with you would be a unique opportunity to do something real, cutting-edge and cool with someone I respect a ton. Let's talk some time to discuss next steps? -Nick

[nhuber]

cc @feross

[nhuber]

Maybe an ordered reading list of the existing project?

Watched your conference talk for high-level motivation and am meaning to grind through all of these so assuming they're well commented I can probably grok everything somewhat independently, but some sense for "where I'm headed" might be helpful...Also, first mini-projects to get a quick win under my belt would be nice :)

[feross]

Hey man, thanks for the interest in contributing. At this stage in the project there's a lot to do but it's not very structured. It's still really experimental and I don't know what would be good for you to work on. There's not really any mini-projects, just big difficult things.

For example, I spent all day yesterday writing this module native-buffer-browserify which improves the browserify project in a way that is likely to be useful to webtorrent. Makes the Buffer object a lot faster.

It might turn out to be the wrong approach and we might even need to ditch browserify completely. I've put in a lot of time to get browserify to work for our use case (see chrome-app-socket) which is cool because now everyone benefits. But it would also be cool to just get a crude demo of webtorrent up...

Anyway, if you see some piece that you think you can do, go for it. Sorry there's not more direction.

[nhuber]

Damn, ok thanks for thinking about it and replying in so much detail.

I will take a look around and see how much makes sense to me. Also, please keep me in mind as you're working on this though :) I'm really going crazy because I'm super under-committed right now and the idleness is a virus on my existence. Maybe I'll do a little python data hack or something. Would be great to be able to keep you posted so that I can have some social commitment device. Would you be up for that? The only commitment I'm looking for is like reading my email/talking on the phone occasionally.

Gogogogo! I want this to exist. Unlike peercdn, I actually understand why it's cool, which I think is a reasonably valuable signal.

(FYI, think I'm going to miss this week's node meeting because I want to go to Cheever's talk.) Unless it's going to be particularly amazing?

[feross]

Yeah dude. Of course. Definitely keep me posted on whatever you hack on via email/phone.