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by lewisjoe 5y ago
I'm in the business of building an online word processor - https://www.zoho.com/writer It's interesting how the documents industry is moving from print oriented legacy softwares (Google Docs, Word) to block based,
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by lewisjoe 5y ago
I'm working on a proof of concept React-ish UI lib powered by WASM. My goal was to make it truly cross platform, for example it should generate ui markups on a headless server as well
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WASI: A New Kind of System Interface(infoq.com)
99 points by lewisjoe 5y ago|56 comments
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by lewisjoe 5y ago
It works. I found myself getting distracted and one day I pledged not to switch tabs or panes when a programming task involves a pause, such as getting a new build. I'd either stare at the screen or switch to a related programming tas
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Ask HN: How are you insulating your investments given the Ukraine situation?
4 points by lewisjoe 5y ago|1 comments
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by lewisjoe 5y ago
That is why working under a non-technical manager is a strong deal-breaker for me. Fortunately at Zoho where I work, the management culture is rooted with an engineering background. Even the CEO himself, works on hard problems like compiler
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by lewisjoe 5y ago
An interesting challenge in the CRDT era today, is that there isn't an ideal CRDT for rich text yet. I mean, not just simple boundary based formattings like bold/italics but also complex block based elements like tables and lists.
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by lewisjoe 5y ago
Sadly, there are rumours that Apple is ditching the mini series i.e iphone 14 variants will have a iphone 14 max and iphone 14 max pro separately instead of the mini version. I use a iphone 12 mini because of the lack of android alternative
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by lewisjoe 5y ago
I'm part of the team that makes Zoho Writer's grammar checker[1] and we did go with a modern neural-net based NLP technique to detect grammatical errors. It had a huge win in terms of the number of errors it caught, but we could n
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by lewisjoe 5y ago
You are asking for an alternative for browsers and 30 years of evolution. Be careful what you wish for :)
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by lewisjoe 5y ago
Marijn is a wizard and ProseMirror is an incredible piece of software, but Marijn isn't dealing with text rendering issues. I'm obviously oversimplifying but here goes: ProseMirror is a wrapper over contenteditable and gives us al
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by lewisjoe 5y ago
> "To us, Prosemirror stood out as the most powerful solution. We wouldn't have needed any third-party dependencies (except for a React integration) and would have been able to define our document schema from the ground up. We
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by lewisjoe 5y ago
I'm making a proof of concept UI library that runs in WebAssembly! Pros: - Rendering for multiple platforms - Much efficient server side rendering with all the goodies of SPA (no need to scale nodejs servers) Cons: It's just a pr
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by lewisjoe 5y ago
You are right. But the reason is not because we are broken. It is because our tools are not intelligent enough to compliment our tendency to forget. I didn't find a single bookmarking system that reminded me of links I wanted to read l
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by lewisjoe 5y ago
There's a pattern underlying the claim: The reasons why the modern productivity suite is winning (Notion, Coda, Airtable, etc) is because they've embraced the web and collaboration. - ability to share the original source to people
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Kubernetes vs. WebAssembly(twitter.com)
1 points by lewisjoe 5y ago|2 comments
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by lewisjoe 5y ago
Quick summary on why it matters that Nvidia abandons ARM takeover: 1. ARM doesn't own any factories. Its entire workforce publishes blueprints for making chips (like a software company where the entire asset is intellectual) 2. Buying
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by lewisjoe 5y ago
I have a slightly parallel hypothesis as to why companies are paying fortunes as AWS and Azure bills. I call it Kubernetes Driven DevOps. While kubernetes is a really great solution to a wide range of problems, often those problems are only
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by lewisjoe 5y ago
Here's a list I maintain and keep an eye on: - WebAssembly / WASI on the server (for serverless tech, cost efficient containers, plugin environment for systems, etc) https://twitter.com/vettijoe/status/14
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by lewisjoe 5y ago
Not really. With WASI i.e webassembly system interface WASM is literally decoupled with the JS runtimes and directly layered on top of the system (OS)
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Kubernetes vs. WASM(twitter.com)
6 points by lewisjoe 5y ago|3 comments
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by lewisjoe 5y ago
You are right, and wrong. Yes we will need a kubernetes-like orchestrator to manage WASM instances. But what the author means in general is that WASM will change the game entirely, such that the industry's recent affair with Kubernetes
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by lewisjoe 5y ago
Here's a tweet from Solomon Hykes noting, if WASM existed back in 2008, he wouldn't have created Docker! https://twitter.com/solomonstre/status/1111004913222324225?s... My biggest concern with K8s is ho
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by lewisjoe 5y ago
Can confirm. This is my thumbrule as well. At any point of time, have two buckets of projects to work on. #1 projects that lets you apply what you already know and ship fast while being useful in real world (typically dayjob takes this slot
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by lewisjoe 5y ago
Yeah it's me who made that SaaS but just as a handy tool for me to publish a static blog out of my google docs. It's live at https://hexo.press P.S had no intention of becoming the next unicorn :)
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by lewisjoe 5y ago
I'm searching the internet for Zoto and nothing is turning up. Can you point me to something that can verify the claim?
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On Being an Idiomatic JavaScript Programmer(nickolinger.com)
3 points by lewisjoe 5y ago|1 comments
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by lewisjoe 5y ago
Take a look at Zoho's workplace suite. Comes at a fairly low pricing and privacy focussed.
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by lewisjoe 5y ago
While this is true, I strongly doubt OP is talking about this case. In your example although it did look like you didn't work from the outside, but in your mind you were still thinking about the problem, technically speaking, working
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by lewisjoe 5y ago
To folks wondering what the issue is about, I'll give a short summary that I myself needed. Typically a logging library has one job to do: swallow the string as if it's some black box and spit it elsewhere as per provided configur

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