pvh
just this guy, you know? (director of research @ ink & switch, coined "local-first", contributor to automerge, former postgres guy, heroku staff, ex-game developer, arctic oceanographer.)
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- After a week of meetings and calls, it was nice to dust off the ol' linear algebra and write a Delaunay triangulation and then the corresponding Voronoi cells. This wonderful post by @ianthehenry.bsky.social was my guide through some long-forgotten math. ianthehenry.com/posts/delaun...
- "I added +1 to spawnRate -- the issue was that my waffle was too high" (we're working on a little art project and even the bug reports are great)
- This is just such a nice detailed explanation of why something isn't really feasible: www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/...
- Ink & Switch is hosting another Social in London on Nov. 11th at the Alan Turing Institute. I'll share some early scientific work in Patchwork, & Marcel will give a peek at the Playbook programmable ink system. Also, lightning talks about "surprises in software". RSVP here: luma.com/71g0lhgo
- At last! We've missed you, @martin.kleppmann.com.
- At long last, @chris.blue and I have submitted the final manuscript of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, second edition, to the publisher. There is always more that could be improved but at some point we just have to call it done. Now it goes into production; probably shipping in ~4 months.
- "Who wrote this!?" he angrily declaimed, knowing, in his heart, it was him.
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- I hear AWS has an outage today. My heart goes out to those of you still writing software hosted there.
- A good friend once told me this was his approach to open source software maintenance:
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- New Automerge website at automerge.org. Kudos to @spiralganglion.com and @seaofclouds.com for their work building it. The level of craft and detail in the landing page is very satisfying.
- I miss Strangeloop, especially this time of year.
- We were discussing yesterday how our goal is that if anyone asks to try out patchwork the immediate response is not to wince and apologize.
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- I wonder if there's a way to open my gmail to find something without seeing the inbox.
- I have often needed something like this, and frequently without realizing it until it was way too late.
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- It's pretty cool that Ink & Switch is contributing to this big ARIA programme now. We get two big things out of it: funding (obviously) but also a community of fascinating creators and problems to connect with. I'm learning all about the UK power grid this week. www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/d...
- The brain drain from Canada to the US appears to be reversing. Early in my career, I moved to San Francisco in search of the best opportunities. Now we're seeing folks go the other direction. Hard to see this as anything other than the end of American hegemony. Maybe it's time.
- I'm so excited that this Firefox bug might get fixed and allow us to run our local-first stuff in service workers. Thanks to Harveer Singh for working on it! bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...
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- automerge is not a dabase and patchwork is not an operating system
- We're in the UK! Come hang out with us in London.
- Automerge 3 is here: the heart transplant is complete! Huge improvements in memory usage and (in most cases) correspondingly big performance improvements too. Backwards compatible on disk and the network so there's no reason not to upgrade today: automerge.org/blog/automer...
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- I revealed the @inkandswitch.com secret plan behind our work on local-first software this year at @localfirstconf.com. Now you can learn it too: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s8O...
- Reposted by pvh📝 new blog post! i spent a while looking into homomorphically encrypted CRDTs. spoiler alert: they don’t work super well! (but you should still check it out — i break down what homomorphic encryption is and how it works, and there are lots of explorable explanations along the way!)
