lewisjoe

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   by lewisjoe 6y ago

   http://closetab.email A solution for my OCD of keeping those 58 tabs in my browser open for two months now.
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   by lewisjoe 6y ago

   I remember setting out to write a Workflowy/Roam style outline viewed editor using prosemirror and it wasn’t as easy. Kudos to the author for building one. Also, why is that all these note-taking apps see everything as a list item? As
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   by lewisjoe 6y ago

   I'm studying how to rewrite our online word-processor in a stack that allows us to render documents to android/iOS/desktop natively. Skia stands out as the obvious choice as a rendering library, Our team though is essentially
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   by lewisjoe 6y ago

   I've always held Spreadsheets as the most underrated low-code platform. Here's a paradigm that enables users to build calculating machines without actually coding, yet the recent trend is such that we try to build visual-blocks ba
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   by lewisjoe 6y ago

   How is this better than Flutter? If the answer is Kotlin > Dart, then what if Google comes up with a Flutter version that supports multiple languages (Dark/Swift/Kotlin)? If I'm to pick Flutter vs Jetbrains/Jetpack Co
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   by lewisjoe 6y ago

   I'm working with a team that makes a web based word-processor (google docs alternative) [1]. One of my long term goal is to rewrite the document rendering code in a stack that allows me to render for multiple platforms (android, iOS, M
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   by lewisjoe 6y ago

   Given that this virus is here to stay, I would like to live in a world where I can test myself for covid-19 just by spitting on a paper and the paper's color change indicating infection. Doing this everyday, will be the only way for me
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   by lewisjoe 6y ago

   Here's a list of softwares that I'd like to see explained in detail: #1 SQLITE #2 ProseMirror #3 V8 #4 WebKit #5 Kubernetes
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   by lewisjoe 6y ago

   I haven't yet completely watched Martin's talk on CRDTs, so I might come back and stand corrected. For now these are some well known trade-offs A central server: Most OT algorithms depend on a central system for intention preserva
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    by lewisjoe 6y ago

    I'm part of the team that makes Zoho Writer (a Google Docs alternative) - https://writer.zoho.com We went with OT for our real-time syncing of edits in 2010 and a decade later, we are still sticking with OT for reasons I al
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    CRDTs are the future(josephg.com)

    1181 points by lewisjoe 6y ago|312 comments
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    by lewisjoe 6y ago

    This is exactly what bothered me when I heard parts of Mozilla Devtools team were let go in the recent layoffs. It's as if they don't get the equation at all. Better devtools = More developers = More testing = Smoother website = M
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    by lewisjoe 6y ago

    This is exactly what I’m afraid of. I feel I’ll regret my younger self no matter which path I take, even if I take a balanced path. There will always be choices that I would have made that my future self will deem wrong. How do I deal wit
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    by lewisjoe 6y ago

    I'm working on something that solves this. It's not ready yet, but here's a sneak peak of the landing page: http://closetab.email
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    by lewisjoe 6y ago

    Rule #1 of software industry: Never judge the work nature by the interview. Cracking interviews is a different skill which is completely different from what you need to solve real problems for real people. If you quit now, it means the gate
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    by lewisjoe 6y ago

    I see what you are getting at. Yes State Machines to Process Designers is a spectrum and has a quite a bit of overlappings. For example these are the lowest common denominators I see. #1 Graph: All of these systems allow you to visually
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    by lewisjoe 6y ago

    Thanks for pointing this out. Never knew this would break screen readers. Sorry. I'm changing the font right now.
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    by lewisjoe 6y ago

    Very true. We really should stop overloading the term Workflow in software. As of now these are the broad categories that abuse the term workflow. 1. State Machines For example in Jira a bug/ticket moves through different states to r
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    by lewisjoe 6y ago

    This is the reason why in Zoho Writer [1] we've put them in a neat pane on the side to show all your comments as a list. It's intuitive to jump from one comment to another, filter them and do bulk comment operations like delete-al
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    by lewisjoe 6y ago

    Since this is the top comment, I want whoever stumbles here to be aware Office 365 isn't all that smooth either. There are things that Google's and Zoho's offerings do much better than Microsoft's. #1 This is 2020 and ev
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    by lewisjoe 6y ago

    I work at Zoho. I can confirm, all accounts signed-up at https://zoho.eu have their data stored within Europe and complies with GDPR.
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    by lewisjoe 6y ago

    This implies the primary intent of life is to collect memories. Memories die too. If not with you, probably with the grandkids. These days when I enjoy a moment, I don't even bother clicking a picture. The goal of life is to have as mu
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    by lewisjoe 6y ago

    Has anybody went through React's HTML diffing algorithm? If this one's good, we could write a JS version and use it for HTML diffing in browsers.
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    by lewisjoe 6y ago

    In 2013, we were hacking away a document tracking system to solve exactly this. We thought we were disrupting the legal market while in reality the lawyers were way too comfortable with Word and emailing docx files. Exactly like you've
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    by lewisjoe 6y ago

    Tip: Zoho Writer - https://writer.zoho.com is a Google Docs alternative and comes with additional tools to compare docx files. https://www.zoho.com/writer/help/document-tools.html#Combine...
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    by lewisjoe 6y ago

    can somebody ELI5, why would someone need such a workflow orchestration engine? What problems are best solved with workflow engines?
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    by lewisjoe 6y ago

    > So Yjs is at least as powerful as OT. Sounds interesting. Will give Yjs a try!
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    by lewisjoe 6y ago

    > You can drop them as soon as you either synchronize with other clients or with the server Say 100 nodes edit a doc. To drop a tombstone, without a central server we need 99 acks. Even with a server, the server keeps an ever-growing l
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    by lewisjoe 6y ago

    I’m part of the team that makes Zoho Writer (Google Docs alternative) - https://writer.zoho.com Back in 2009, we wrote our real time collaboration component using Operational Transformations (OT). But when CRDTs started to gain
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    by lewisjoe 6y ago

    The secret to make folks test on Firefox is by making developers happy. What makes them happy? A good DevTools experience. Chrome won me over as a developer with its developer console, and I noticed Firefox Devtools has become a lot better