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@nschiefer: Bwahahahahahahaha never change Hacker News, never change article 2022-05-14
@nschiefer: And if you want an exercise to test your understanding: it turns out that there’s a bug in one of ou... article 2022-05-11
@nschiefer: This was just a workshop paper with a cool proposal, not an implementation. If you're interested in... article 2022-05-11
@nschiefer: We took our conflict set definition ~verbatim from FoundationDB! One cool thing that gives you is a... article 2022-05-11
@nschiefer: The second half of our paper is a proposal that we called TreeDB, which is an instance of forking hi... article 2022-05-11
@nschiefer: When I talk to programmers about this, they mostly ask "isn't this just git?" I'd argue that git is... article 2022-05-11
@nschiefer: Instead of forcing everything to merge, "merge what you can, fork what you can't". If an offline ch... article 2022-05-11
@nschiefer: I'm pretty sure there's a Greenspun-type law here: any program built on top of a non-transactional d... article 2022-05-11
@nschiefer: And if you're thinking "well, I'm not a bank, I don't need transactions": the paper has a cute examp... article 2022-05-11
@nschiefer: By allowing any change to merge in no matter when it was made, CRDTs struggle with strong integrity ... article 2022-05-11
@nschiefer: A popular solution to local-first sync is a CRDT (conflict-free replicated data type). These are coo... article 2022-05-11
@nschiefer: In the Riffle project we're excited about local-first software. But if software is going to be local... article 2022-05-11
@nschiefer: Weird new (to Twitter) paper with @geoffreylitt and @danieljacksoncs. The title basically tells the ... article 2022-05-11
@nschiefer: New England spring is probably the most beautiful season I've experienced anywhere. If only it laste... article 2022-05-11
@nschiefer: Glad to be in Boston these next few weeks, probably the nicest out of the whole year. 🌤️ I once mad... article 2022-05-11