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by aboodman 2y ago
Also Instant is a database (it has queries and so forth, more appropriate for bigger data). I would put Jazz at the document sync side of the spectrum: https://x.com/aboodman/status/1843042582672355834
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by aboodman 2y ago
I don't think you're on the right forum if this is your response to somebody launching something new and technically interesting.
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by aboodman 2y ago
Jazz is decentralized. There is no central server. See: https://x.com/aboodman/status/1843045692736204802
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by aboodman 2y ago
Does it store data persistently anywhere (on servers?). If so where?
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by aboodman 2y ago
Very excited to see this. I think this is currently the most promising of the fully-decentralized local-first systems I've seen.
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by aboodman 2y ago
> The zerosync website says this: >> But where Zero really shines is “local-first” style applications like Linear and Superhuman. It is a difficult thing to communicate since the vast majority of people interested in Zero are comin
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by aboodman 2y ago
To answer your specific questions: > What if the data I need isn’t in the cache? The developer can arrange for all the data to be in the cache if the want that part of the app to be fully offline capable. > What happens when I edit th
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by aboodman 2y ago
Hi Joseph, There is a lot of debate about this in the community. People like pvh, adam wiggins, and johannes have all said they consider Replicache and Zero part of the local-first movement [1] and that they would be sad if we and other thi
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by aboodman 2y ago
[Moved up thread]
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by aboodman 2y ago
I mean that basically in an implementation of indexes. Move the on-the-fly sorts to behind a command, then change the insert/delete code to maintain them, and voila - indexes.
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by aboodman 2y ago
That is discussed in the ... sigh, nevermind.
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by aboodman 2y ago
Shipping doesn't use gasoline, it uses bunker fuel, which is currently about $700/ton. There are 4k gallons in a ton of such fuel, so approximately 18c/gallon. So the shipping cost in fuel should be about $20, which amusingly
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by aboodman 2y ago
I typically let Chrome suggest one, but that menu item wasn't available here (because I was not inside Chrome, obviously). These restrictions do not add security in practice. People just add `!` or `1` as necessary to make the thing sh
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by aboodman 2y ago
I almost gave up after trying this like three times but as an ex browser developer really wanted to see what ya'll were up to. I think it's an interesting concept. But I bet you will lose tons of trials here. In fact it should jus
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by aboodman 2y ago
Please stop doing this: https://i.imgur.com/2WeVGxK.png It's so frustrating. Early in your product lifecycle it should be painfully easy to get started and you shouldn't be worrying about this kind of security.
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by aboodman 3y ago
Wow, I hadn't seen this follow-up post! Cool! (btw I really love your masthead graphics)
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by aboodman 3y ago
Not sure in the case of Croquet, but you can implement this very well with https://reflect.net (my company). Server authority is a core piece of what it provides, and as a bonus you don't need a special runtime – it runs in
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by aboodman 3y ago
Speaking as a library developer, Firefox is expensive for us to support in https://replicache.dev and https://reflect.net due to lots of long-open bugs, particularly in the storage system. Firefox also generally has
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by aboodman 3y ago
lol https://imgur.com/a/3QVdbz0
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by aboodman 3y ago
It's true that a CRDT is often not the right thing for a classic client/server application. But this doesn't mean we should just give up on ux and use locking. There are approaches to multiplayer that are client/server n
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by aboodman 3y ago
I didn't mean to say that Reflect can do _anything_. We do think it's a general model that ends up working well for very many things in practice.
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by aboodman 3y ago
You mentioned you hadn't looked at it in the article, but FWIW this is exactly the approach Dolt takes.
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Show HN: Build a multiplayer app with Reflect in minutes(hello.reflect.net)
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by aboodman 3y ago
I think it sounds really cool. I love the p2p side of local-first. Lot to figure out to make it practical, but very glad people are working on that.
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by aboodman 3y ago
FWIW, I don't think this is deterministic lockstep for the key reason that Reflect is not deterministic: https://i.imgur.com/q9FnN4R.png The whole idea of DL as I understand it is to take advantage of determinism to re
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by aboodman 3y ago
It seems really interesting. The key thing to understand is that there are deep architectural choices made in each of these systems that really influence what you can do. There is "mechanical sympathy" with certain kinds of applic
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by aboodman 3y ago
There are a variety of relevant limitations. Some of them are listed here: developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/platform/limits/ For this particular problem, it just comes down to CPU time. At the bottom of the stac
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by aboodman 3y ago
I like multiplayer because it connotes games and games have worked so hard at this and done so well. Our goal is to be as good as games. But I get your argument too. Naming is hard.
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by aboodman 3y ago
Huh! That's interesting. I don't think this applies to the type of collaborative apps (ie figma) we are targeting, but it's fascinating to know. Thanks!
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by aboodman 3y ago
Depends what you mean by very large. Reflect can store up to about 50MB/room. For a PNG, that's "fairly large" I guess. We plan to increase this limit in the future. You'd have to split up the image into chunks of a

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