my project `dat-gateway` has been in an infuriating state of flux for many months because it is an application context.

"a gateway? an application context? what?" you say, like a reasonable human being.

thanks to the horror of javascript, websites are applications, and the browser grants them powers based on their context. a gateway sharing archives under a single domain allows the web apps in those archives to read each other's data, because the browser assumes that one domain == one owner. thus a proper gateway cannot use a single domain, but must wildcard archive domain names. setting up this wildcard has been an excruciating process that i still haven't finished, and i'm fucking fed up with it. DNS is a trap.

i reject that websites should be applications, or that we should be building additional application contexts. software is SO BAD and feeding the monster won't fix it. all we want to do is share files, anyway.