waffle

Simon Willison’s experimental dogproxy; A node.js HTTP proxy that bundles requests to equal URLs into one actual request.

Node will continue to fascinate me for a long time: it’s a tight product perfecting an existing concept, bringing it into the purview of general purpose programming and coming along at the right time. It’s wonderful how applying the right kind of design and technology can help bring out the problem (lack of asynchrony) that needs to be solved.