TL;­DR:

I did man­age to write this thing, sort of, in 2 hours. You can see it in ac­tion here: http://tinyurl.­com/loc­che1 and it has some rather un­usu­al fea­tures :-)

• You can hack Loc­che in­­­side Loc­che.

• You can go back to pre­vi­ous ver­­sions of the text (or Loc­che) from any copy of Loc­che

• It us­es no serv­er what­­so­ev­er (other than a CDN to get JS and codemir­ror)

What's miss­ing?

• Mak­ing it pret­­ty

• Short­­en his­­to­ry URLs so the size does­n't ex­­plode so much

• Fix han­dling of ' " and prob­a­bly oth­­er char­ac­ters in the text

• Doc­u­­ment it

But I think it's cool. Be­low is the live­blog of how it was done. Have fun match­ing it with the com­mit his­to­ry at http­s://github.­com/ralsi­na/loc­che

I am go­ing to live-­code a paste­bin, with a few twist­s.

It's called Loc­che, in hon­our of Nicol­i­no Loc­che, The Un­touch­able.

This page will up­date ev­ery 5 min­utes un­til I am done, or 2 hours have elapsed.

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