Slackfs – Mount Slack as a Filesystem
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The post introduces Slackfs, a tool that mounts Slack as a filesystem, sparking curiosity and questions about its functionality and potential use cases.
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https://github.com/jeremy46231/slackfs/blob/main/PLAN.md
A Slack filesystem that makes files uploaded to Slack openable (most probably readonly) in a local file viewer would be cool though.
Chicken Scheme has a 9p module, that happens to have some real world examples, in Scheme. Scroll down a tiny bit: https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/9p#data-directory-listing
Really wish there were better references to share for this stuff. This still feels like one of the most user-empowering paths computing has to expose itself, utterly universal & already with some user-savy right there.