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by lewisjoe 2y ago
Grammarly has been having an identity crisis ever since LLMs made grammar checking accessible to every company at a fraction of the cost. ChatGPT is killing a lot of companies and grammarly was the first collateral. This acquisition is conc
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by lewisjoe 2y ago
Grammarly has been having an identity crisis ever since LLMs made grammar checking accessible to every company at a fraction of the cost. ChatGPT is killing a lot of companies and grammarly was the first collateral. This acquisition is conc
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In Google Docs, use “help me create” to create formatted documents from scratch(support.google.com)
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Claude launches Google Docs integration for document Q&A(twitter.com)
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by lewisjoe 2y ago
> which is very likely how G wants them to be perceived One of the authors of the book is Chris, who leads the Blink rendering team at G :)
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Google's NotebookLM now lets documents to be turned into podcasts(blog.google)
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by lewisjoe 2y ago
When working with formatted text content like in Google Docs / Zoho Writer: moving a list item down or adding a new column or any table/list operation is essentially a tree manipulation op. Concurrent conflicts in such cases are
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by lewisjoe 2y ago
Hi, thanks for this amazing work. Just curious: Google docs supports a lot more than what Markdown has syntaxes for - how do you deal with this when exporting to markdown?
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by lewisjoe 2y ago
Great work Alon! Yet another case of impressive engineering. I have a couple of questions: 1. How is the landscape of wasmGC browser support? Given it's relatively new is it OK to use this and ship production apps now? How does sheets
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by lewisjoe 2y ago
> One datapoint is that Google rewrote their Google Docs app in KMM (which doesn't include UI, that's Compose Multiplatform) Can you point me to the source? I'm curious
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Android Support for Kotlin Multiplatform to Share Business Logic(android-developers.googleblog.com)
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
Recently I was shocked when I came to know that both CKeditor and TinyMCE are now owned by the same parent company. The acquisition has happened silently, that many people think TinyMCE and CKEditor are different competing companies. Given
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
Yeah, this happened to us too a couple of times. Once, we asked for a clarification and he took it as a sensible requirement, made the changes and took it to master in just over an evening. The next day we just had to update our package to
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
I can confirm. I've had quite a few projects that made it to the front page of HN and handled the traffic like cake. All of them ran on 5$ digital ocean droplets. I accept some projects are more resource expensive than others, but majo
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
I'm always amazed by Marijn's brilliance (Author of Lezer, CodeMirror and the awesome ProseMirror toolkit) The level of depth he dives into to perfect his projects is insane. For example, lezer is a parser generator( which by itse
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
This is an amazing piece of work. Thanks for making this open-source. The default way of generating beautiful PDFs in the backend these days is, running a headless browser and using browser APIs to turn HTML/CSS into PDFs. And apparent
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
I designed my first website in Adobe dreamweaver. I was taught programming using an obscure language called LOGO that allowed moving a cursor(aka turtle) to draw shapes algorithmically. 128MB of ram was considered decent and if you could af
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
I tried using the product and out of curiosity inspected the editor. The editor is basically a CodeMirror plugin with all the tech heavy-lifting like realtime collaboration is enabled by CodeMirror itself. It's clearly an overstretch t
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
I see this is built on top of the amazing Prosemirror richtext toolkit. I'm a huge fan of Prosemirror's architecture which powers extremely customizable editors like this one. But to call this component a word-processor - is a bit
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Ask HN: What interesting project ideas you've got but have no time to work on?
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
No there's no announcements yet for #3. But if you look around their code you'll find wasm files for spellchecking/proofing and associated models for select few languages. Combined with the fact that google docs support proof
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
By mass adoption, do you mean why not all existing softwares are ported to webassembly so that they can be run on browsers? Most websites are just that - "sites". Complicated softwares that _need_ to be run on the web are already
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
By "annotation items" - you mean the special "boundary characters" that Loro CRDT uses to mark formatting boundaries right? Yes, Google docs doesn't use such special annotation characters for bold/italics-like
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
It's great work improvising over Peritext using joseph's latest CRDT work. Much needed literature in "applying CRDTs for richtext" space. But I'm surprised why this one too hasn't focussed a lot on rich-text bl
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
It's surprising that Jetbrains/Kotlin which neither owns a platform, nor is in the mainstream runtime business like Oracle - managed to build an "extremely" multiplatform language with excellent interoperability with oth
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
This is a clear and crisp way of differentiating delta based vs state based CRDTs. But I don't think it's accurate enough. For example, the article claims delta based CRDTs don't use vector clocks. But even to decide if a se
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
This is definitely the way to go! The browser is not only good at network requests and sandboxing but comes with the most powerful layouting system and rendering engine. So yes, leveraging browsers just for the front-end of a local-first ap
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
I have a pet idea to write a Notion-like tool that works like an old-school desktop app - meaning you should be able to export your pages or the entire database as a single sql file and it should be open-able from somewhere else. I also wan
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
I'm wondering why is there zero competition for Figma? I understand their app is basically a browser-like engine running inside the browser - which is cutting-edge tech, tough to copy, etc. But given enough interest in this space and t
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by lewisjoe 3y ago
Google Docs actually uses a flat array representation of the whole document. Tables/lists and other structures are encoded using control-characters in the plain string. This makes index calculations for OT a bit easier. How do I know?

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