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by jsunderland323 3y ago
I'll try to contextualize it in the case of something like AST merging so it's more familiar. Imagine you have file A and file B. In one change someone adds some code that imports something from file B into file A. In another chan
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It's testing to see if the daemon is running from the electron app. It uses the connection to the browser for things like sign in and verification and for being able to redirect links into the electron app. https://github.co
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It for sure is more complicated than adding files to a git repo. You are 100% right and I wouldn't dispute that for even a second. I'm not exactly advocating this for solo-projects unless you are already sure you want to do someth
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by jsunderland323 3y ago
Exactly! This was actually Linus' point when he was explaining git to companies still on cvs. "You're all already using branches anyway". I think if you're in a low-trust enterprise environment, branches kind of mak
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It does but it can't support cascading states. I kind of explain this at the bottom of this page https://floro.io/technical-overview-part-2
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by jsunderland323 3y ago
Thank you! I'll put my email in my bio if you want any help at all, It's a heavy installation (but straightforward once it's setup).
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I mean this is the struggle. And props to you for building that. It's an ugly problem. I actually do think (and have personal evidence now to believe) that most functions adjacent to engineering can learn distributed version control. O
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by jsunderland323 3y ago
I think you're probably correct that you likely aren't the target audience here. Version control is a loaded term. This would be a terrible replacement for perforce or anything for diffing something like a CAD file. The real focus
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Show HN: Floro – Visual Version Control
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Show HN: Floro – OSS Visual Version Control for Static Assets and Diffable UIs(floro.io)
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by jsunderland323 3y ago
I’m curious if you’ve implemented a rich text editor with this. I think Google Docs uses canvas. I hate the browser APIs for rich text and wonder if this could be more a viable candidate than using contenteditable for future projects
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by jsunderland323 3y ago
Seems like this could be a big win for local LLMs =D
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There is a way you could make it deterministic. You could basically let the LLM select the resolution edits and preserve that. Just as you could write a bash script to let an LLM handle your git merges. But then we go back to why? This seem
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by jsunderland323 3y ago
It’s not about system design. It’s about design systems, which are custom UI component libraries used across a product or set of products to enforce UI consistency and code re-usability.
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Show HN: P2P mobile file sharing with QRs [video](youtube.com)
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This has always been my take too, it reeks of a DSL. It's sort of like a no-code/low-code solution for people overwhelmed by the complexity of the FE ecosystem and/or those who don't want to learn anymore web technology
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by jsunderland323 3y ago
Yeah, sorry (as I said in the below comment the site is super incomplete, showing screenshots of visual diffs is actually not that easy and I am yet to upload a demo video). Probably can’t give a great pitch here but the whole thing is base
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by jsunderland323 3y ago
Totally. Sadly I’m focused on GUI use cases and not AST. I’m more focused on making distributed version control for tasks that are handled better by visual editors than plain text. Universal AST diffing and merging is probably an impossible
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by jsunderland323 3y ago
I wish I could show you something I’m working on — I’m just finishing up documentation now. I don’t think many people get this too. I haven’t launched yet but I think I solved this problem, my email is in my bio if you have any interest in
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Does seem impassioned though
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> Now, someone who regularly works with MIDI files - heck, someone who regularly works with binary files - could probably do it in a few hours, but this entire process took minutes. In my experience, I think this is the key area it excee
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by jsunderland323 3y ago
Agreed. I was on the edge of my seat. I wouldn’t do a write up for something like this. I feel no-soap radio’d.
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It looks like you’re basically sending raw c code to an express server then evaling it with some zig module import. Is that correct? Seems super safe.
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> Sure, we can sort-of reason about this stuff e.g. with a hierarchical css+html+js structure, but without a way to render that I challenge you to be able to simply diff that information. Seeing "bold" or "blue" seems
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by jsunderland323 3y ago
This 100%. It does get interesting when you get into non-plaintext things that have to somehow integrate into plaintext systems (git managed codebases). We've kind of left it up to CMS systems to handle the non-plaintext bits but this
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by jsunderland323 3y ago
Well then you’re back to the bridge problem. postMessage is crazy slow. There are some problems where parallelization will outperform the ipc cost with postMessage but those problems are few and far between. I haven’t dove into the new web
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by jsunderland323 3y ago
I did a double take when I read this too. However, I’d wager that in 99% of cases the bottleneck isn’t at the language level for most desktop apps or GUI apps in general. I have an app that has one pretty frequent cpu intensive call (it com
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But you did and people don’t want to register. So do you want to iterate towards a model that works for you and your users? I think OC left really good feedback. I’ve been in your shoes before and I really can empathize with your situation
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I think there’s arguments to be made both ways. I‘m generally of the belief that technology that works is a net win for humanity. But I think we need to stop being vague about what it means for an LLM to work. For me, I just want to tell an
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Yeah, I think that's well said. I think the doomerism is more of a sell to investors than users sorta situation but it cuts both ways, which makes me sad for the tech industry having just made this same mistake with crypto. Who benefit

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