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Hey folks, I'm Chris, one of the authors of the post! It was a joy to write up this post, and write about the problems we've faced and fixed through the years, in our native LiveLi…

Hey all, we've just open sourced our sync engine and dev server, and we're very excited to share this. We're planning on open sourcing more of our platform as time goes on, and thi…

I work at Liveblocks—yes! Our founders were inspired by Figma and wanted to make it possible for others to build apps like this more easily. We provide our own sync engine, Storage…

Hey all, I'm the writer! I thought I'd share this since a couple of my interactive articles went down quite well on here. Happy to answer any questions.

You might have missed this quote near the top—it recommends Tiptap for most uses. > If you’re here for a quick recommendation, we think the most well-rounded choice is Tiptap becau…

I thought you might like this, as my other blog posts went down well! Let me know if you have any questions. Here's the last ones: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38842116 htt…

If you disable JavaScript in your browser and load my blog, you'll find the entire site works apart from the interactive components in the article! That's the only part that uses c…

Yes! There was a bug on iPhone, though I've fixed it now.

You've been hilariously accurate here—I was actually a WordPress dev for years, and now I don't mention it because I'm not interested in those jobs. Haven't even told any of my col…

Thanks, appreciate it!

Right, the most important thing is getting your posts out there! I say do what works best for you, we all have knowledge and experience in different areas, and there isn't a single…

Thanks! I always enjoy playing with new tech, and HTMX looks fun, though I wouldn't use it for anything serious. If you're looking for something fun and simple, I'd 100% recommend …

To make it fill the page, you need to make sure it's placed inside an element (with relative positioning) that's height comes from its content. Then give the noise absolute positio…

I saved myself time by reusing a small noise image I'd used before, but you could do it with an SVG pretty easily! https://grainy-gradients.vercel.app/

I've just deployed a change to the noise as I saw a screenshot from another user and it looked like an iPhone bug! The noise shouldn't even be noticeable. Is it looking better now?…

100%! I tried to set it at a level where it "feels" right, but you don't realise why.

Damn, that's crazy! Reminds me of the old Windows "pipes" screensaver, but far nicer.

My last interactive blog post, from a couple of years ago, went down really well, so thought you might like this one! Here's the last one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3198…