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Jan Monschke
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Jan Monschke's personal blog at janmonschke.com covers programming and web. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment is a question in a Google Drive Realtime API thread about making web app documents editable in real time, including whether the API merges client updates. It does not judge the writing.
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What Hacker News says?
Assuming I trust Google with all the data and all my users have Google Drive, this looks like a super easy way to make documents created in a web app editable in real time by multiple users. I'm curious about the details though, which would be ironed out with some more detailed playground examples. Does the API handle merging of the update events on the client side, or do I have to do all that work myself from the s…
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