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I've been struggling for years to get an overview (become literate) in history as an adult. I wanted all the names (Cicero, Caesar, Constantinople, Waterloo) to actually mean somet…

I've gotten jobs at three international remote companies, all paying above $150k, with no whiteboard and definitively no leet code. Although domain expertise helps, and working in …

Interesting approach. I learnt Chinese in university 20 years ago, and spent a long time in China both with traditional text books (self study) and just living there... Very curiou…

Yeah, we need to do a lot around messaging, to be clear - the wiki is in an early prototype and there are known bugs, etc. However if you want to try it out, install the repo (run …

One neat thing about live collaboration is that every single edit is stored. This enables some nice things, like seamless replay of the entire document editing history. We've been …

I am curious about this argument - I think CKEditor 5 made a similar one in this epic blog post about how they implemented real-time collaboration ( https://ckeditor.com/blog/Lesso…

tmbb has been doing work on writing a ShareDB compatible backend in Elixir ( https://elixirforum.com/t/realtime-collaboration/9736/5 ), this has long been a dream of mine. If not, …

That's basically what I'm trying to build - we're starting with Quill.js and ShareDB, adding extensions, configuring, and then adding a plugin system based on React, which can take…

Thanks for the component you provided for shared cursors in text areas ( https://github.com/convergencelabs/html-text-collab-ext ). I've been using it with ShareDB, and have been w…

Surprised the author didn't mention Quill.js, which works really well with ShareDB, and is fully open source. We've been doing a lot of fun stuff with it - here's a talk I gave rec…

If you enjoyed this article, you might also enjoy the novel The Great Passage by Shion Miura, a wonderful quiet novel about the creation of a Japanese dictionary.

People interested in block styled editors and new takes on editors should look at hax-the-web, a big effort using web components primarily designed for educational materials at PSU…

If they start publishing in Chinese? The commercial CNKI database indexes 10,406 Chinese language academic journals, and 63 million articles. Arguably, much of it is of low quality…

At most festivals in Switzerland, you have a single kind of reusable plastic cup, for which you pay a deposit of a few Euro. You can then hand it back at any venue part of the fest…

What's the issue with the Yangtze? It only flows within China?

[ShareDB]( https://github.com/share/sharedb ) is the most commonly used, we use it extensively - also has bindings to rich text or code editors. [Y-js]( http://y-js.org/ ) is a mor…

Note that most of these are not full-time jobs. Even members of federal parliament only meet four times a year, and go back to their normal jobs in-between.

This discussion is very interesting to us, as we are building a workflow system for collaborative learning (students might do an activity individually, the output of that activity …

Same in Paris, we just vacationed there for five days, with a two year old. Very difficult to navigate in a stroller (good proxy for a wheelchair - I can lift it down the stairs, b…

This was really frustrating to me, because it felt like treating the Chinese visitors not as people, but a natural phenomenon (locusts) or some such. It's natural that the locals w…