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Just finished a new blog post about React ProseMirror. Happy to chat if anyone has questions, hope you enjoy!

Hey folks! Handle with Care is a software collective that builds and maintains open source rich text editing libraries, including React ProseMirror [1]. We all came from The New Yo…

Howdy! React ProseMirror maintainer here. Our collective has been helping out a client with migrating their existing text editor to use React ProseMirror from @tiptap/react. They h…

I found myself recently needing to implement the HTTP range request protocol in order to support video elements in Safari. It took some effort, so I figured I would document what I…

Thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate it! I'm glad you enjoyed it

Howdy folks. This is a somewhat long (… sorry!) deep dive into several years’ worth of work that started when I was a staff engineer at The New York Times and has followed me into …

Thanks! Looking forward to your feedback!

Readium is fantastic, and Storyteller uses it basically whenever possible. But Readium is exclusively for reading EPUB contents, and doesn’t have any support for modifying or creat…

Thanks, yeah I agree. The vast majority of the code in this library lives in a single class definition. Is it possible to move the implementations into separate files? Totally. Wou…

This is like... comically hard to express succinctly haha. We've been having several conversations about how to explain it quickly to new folks. I like the phrase that the Readium …

I think that the thing we need to account for (which, number of words per chapter would capture this, I think) is different publications of the same book, which would need differen…

Yeah I was toying around with that, too… but folks often mess around with metadata in tools like Calibre and Audiobookshelf in ways that wouldn’t have an impact on Storyteller’s sy…

Is the idea that you have some devices that you want to download just the text to, but have it sync with your other devices? I think we could support that natively, honestly! Story…

That’s a really interesting idea! The more I think about it, the more I like it. A challenge I foresee is that the media overlays are only reusable if you have the exact same input…

You can’t do much better than that; that’s the size of the audiobook! For what it’s worth, I also used Storyteller on Wind and Truth, and got it down to 1.2GB by using the OPUS cod…

Yup, great point. Especially if you've used some tool to convert from another file, like a PDF, into an EPUB, you can easily end up with the entire book in a single XHTML file, whi…

It was, actually, very enjoyable! When we pulled React ProseMirror[1] out of the NYT text editor, it was a pretty laborious process that we had to careful plan and execute for mont…

Thanks! Absolutely. You can invite users to your Storyteller server and give them whatever permissions are appropriate (e.g. you can choose whether they can only download books, or…

Of course! I'm hoping to have a web reader with Media Overlay support built in to Storyteller available in the next few months, along with some much needed library management tooli…