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Digital Freepen is a personal blog at digitalfreepen.com about programming and design. Since 2017, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “A Simple Approach to Building a Real-Time Collaborative Text Editor”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its posts on building real-time collaborative editing and on the range of Perlin noise. Commenters call the collaborative editing post approachable and point to the noise post as useful.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- A Simple Approach to Building a Real-Time Collaborative Text Editor3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-10-07
What Hacker News says?
I found this blog post on this subject very approachable: http://digitalfreepen.com/2017/10/06/simple-real-time-collab...
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on “Code together in real time with Teletype for Atom”Submitted Elixir in Depth – Reading and personal notes as a story · 337 points
HN discussionThis was one of the project idea I made myself work on during this April. The motivation being, "how hard is it to make a real-time code editor". Long story short, it is far more complicated than I had imagine and to complete in less than a week. Implementing the CRDT itself, the logic itself is challenging and than putting it down to code is another story. From my understanding, an implementation of logoot[1] is bu…
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on “Open source collaborative text editors”Submitted A Simple Approach to Building a Real-Time Collaborative Text Editor as a story · 250 points
HN discussionThere are a few codebases you can poke around in, notably ShareDB ( https://github.com/share/sharedb/tree/master/examples ). This article had some visibility on HN a couple weeks ago, perhaps it is what you are looking for: http://digitalfreepen.com/2017/10/06/simple-real-time-collab... The fact that that article needs 10 plus pages to describe one of the simplest use cases belies the unfortunate underlying truth: O…
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on “CKEditor 5: New approach to rich text editing on the web”Submitted The range of Perlin Noise as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI agree, more should be written about Perlin Noise range. You might find this useful: https://digitalfreepen.com/2017/06/20/range-perlin-noise.htm... In addition to range I'd like to see the distribution, especially with multiple octaves of noises added together. I haven't found a good page about that.
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on “Red Blob Games: Interactive visual explanations of math and algorithms”Submitted Design tools and multiplicative complexity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Implementing Operational Transform Hard? as a story · 1 points
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