Announcements about scat HOT 2 CLOSED

v2 - Public release 🎉

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After years of putting off backing up for lack of tools that suited my OCDs, I finally decided to scratch that itch and do it so well that I would actually want to back up things. Anything, in fact. From anywhere. Without having to worry about what's where. Just regularly cramming encrypted private data anywhere there's space available and not keeping track of it nor cleaning up anything by hand.

After exactly two months of development, I'm finally happy enough with the current state of the feature-set and code cleanliness that I can publish the project.

It's my first experience in open-sourcing a project that has real potential to be of actual use to a larger public than me. Previously published projects just happened to be public for lack of a usable host for private projects and most later got abandoned for lack of interest and/or inflexibility due to poor design. This time I did things so that this wouldn't happen again: deeper thoughts before implementation, rewrite until it feels right, don't settle for less than the original vision.

Its development process (or lack thereof) wouldn't have been as pleasant, if not a PITA, without the following excellent tools:

• Dynalist - first-class nested lists editor
• StackEdit - Markdown editor
• and of course, Go - one of these marvels that click so well I fear the day they change course

I hope this project will be useful to people.

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A little update on the current status of the project: see #22 (comment)

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