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WS2HTTP - Day 2

I've been somewhat busy with other things on the weekend but today I've returned to work some more on WS2HTTP, and by now things actually work pretty well. It's also a lot less complicated than anticipated (the entire node.js server is ~150 loc).

WS2HTTP - Day 1

Today I've continued on experimenting with this WS2HTTP idea and first started building the backend with Rust/Tokio...

Gotta say, I really didn't like it, it just felt so overly complicated. I suppose that's the price one has to pay for efficien…

WS2HTTP - Day 0

So, because I've been thinking a lot about how to do small projects on the web without all the complexity inherent in modern stacks I came upon an idea that might be able to allow for efficient WebSockets with a (Fast)CGI backend.

It seems that m…