We shipped rich text & prosemirror support for Automerge! It was HARD and took many combined brains (from Geoffrey Litt and Nintendo .DS_Store on Peritext to Martin Kleppmann, Orion and Alex Good figuring out blocks) but the result is something we're proud of: automerge.org/blog/2024/04/0…

Coding this character to life was basically my intro to the programming world. Awesome to see it come to fruition this way 🤩

The time required to understand what a JavaScript error *means* is tiny, and ~uniform for all skill levels.

The time required to understand what a Rust compilation error *means* is large, varying with skill level.

This is a tradeoff, compiled languages aren't simply 'better'.

Interesting writing by Alan Kay: reasoning by correlation is superstition. That's what LLMs are. This (plus a general trend of making LLMs our new gods) saddens me that we're distancing ourselves from science. quora.com/What-does-Alan…

1. I didn't know Dan is working at b****y 🥹
2. Martin emailed me for feedback on this paper since it mentions SSB, and I was so honored to review it

Big milestone, with more to come!

We used invites to manage growth as we built out the rails for a new kind of distributed network. Now, we’re ready to open up.

In the coming weeks, expect updates on federation and composable moderation services.

My favorite typo is some-file-name.ts instead of some-file-name.d.ts

Love it. I do it all the time.