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asnyder commented on How Figma’s multiplayer technology works (2019) figma.com/blog/how-figmas... · Posted by u/redbell

freeqaz · 5 days ago

This is still a hard problem today. Some hard tech was built for this. I'm excited for a world where this is more accessible and less hardcore than something like CRDTs (in terms of accessibility).

How have others noticed the world shifting in the past 6 years?

asnyder · 5 days ago

I know Liveblocks.io has been making this very easy and accessible over the last few years. They recently introduced AI, and are promoting that of course, but as I understand it multiplayer collaboration (https://liveblocks.io/multiplayer-editing) is their meat and potatoes.

Not affiliated with Liveblocks, just aware of its existence.

asnyder commented on Micron rolls out 276-layer SSD trio for speed, scale, and stability blocksandfiles.com/2025/0... · Posted by u/rbanffy

kijin · 22 days ago

There is no consumer market for 4TB+ SSDs. There never was, and there probably won't be for the foreseeable future. Most non-technical people have been conditioned to store their data on their phones and/or in the cloud these days. When they need more storage, their first thought is to upgrade their cloud plan, not to open up their device and void the warranty.

Professionals like us know of course that the SSD is an easily upgradable component. But we also tend to know how to set up a NAS with 4x 18TB HDDs in a zfs pool that can saturate the bandwidth of any reasonable home network when transferring large files. So the market for professionals and enthusiasts don't always translate into a market for large SSDs.

asnyder · 21 days ago

Opening up one's device does not void the warranty in the US. We have the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act which forbids this, despite manufactures trying to groom us otherwise with those void if removed or broken stickers.

Most recently, FTC started to raise awareness and crack down on some abuse: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/07/....

Will take a long time to de-program and by that time nothing will be replaceable to matter due to industries march towards preventing repair altogether.

asnyder commented on Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved blog.pragmaticengineer.co... · Posted by u/thunderbong

asnyder · 2 months ago

There's also https://openobserve.ai, while not as stable as Grafana/Prometheus/Clickhouse, feels a bit easier to setup and manage. Though has a bit of ways to go, does the basics and more without issue.

Crazy crazy they spent so much on observability. Even with DataDog they could've optimized that spend. DataDog does lots of bad things with billing where by default, especially with on-demand instances you get charged significantly more than you should as they have (had?) pretty deficient counting towards instance hours and instances.

For example, rather than run the agent (which counts as an instance regardless of if it's on for a minute), you can send the logs, metrics, etc. directly to their ingestion endpoints and not have those instances counted towards their usage other than log and metric usage.

Maybe at that level they don't even get into actual by usage anymore, and they just negotiate arbitrary amounts for some absurd quota of use.

asnyder commented on Bill Atkinson has died daringfireball.net/linked... · Posted by u/romanhn

mort96 · 3 months ago

This seems like something completely different? Livecode looks like just another toolkit or SDK for developing standalone apps, which might be great for the handful of developers using it but certainly doesn't do anything to re-shape how users interact with their computers

asnyder · 3 months ago

Nope, is completely the same base. Scroll the homepage, and you'll see an example of Livecode (updated HyperTalk).

You can open your HyperCard stacks, or MetaCard stacks, or Runtime/Livecode Stacks in their IDE, code, edit, etc, similar to what you would have back in Hypercard days, but with modern features, updates, and additions.

It's backwards compatible with HyperTalk, its current language is an updated HyperTalk (i.e. an updated MetaTalk), that incorporates all that was, but adds new features for today.

Your Livecode apps can be deployed and run as cross-platform desktop applications (Mac, Win, *nix) , mobile applications, and as far as I remember, web applications with HTML5 deployment (so they say).

Not affiliated with them in any way, just sharing my understanding and memories.

asnyder commented on Bill Atkinson has died daringfireball.net/linked... · Posted by u/romanhn

matthewn · 3 months ago

In an alternate timeline, HyperCard was not allowed to wither and die, but instead continued to mature, embraced the web, and inspired an entire genre of software-creating software. In this timeline, people shape their computing experiences as easily as one might sculpt a piece of clay, creating personal apps that make perfect sense to them and fit like a glove; computing devices actually become (for everyone, not just programmers) the "bicycle for the mind" that Steve Jobs spoke of. I think this is the timeline that Atkinson envisioned, and I wish I lived in it. We've lost a true visionary. Memory eternal!

asnyder · 3 months ago

His legacy still exists and continues today. Even updated to modern sensibilities, cross-platform, and compatible with all your legacy Hypercard stacks!

As far as I remember, progression was Hypercard -> Metacard -> Runtime Revolution -> Livecode.

https://livecode.com

I was a kid when this progression first happened, my older brother Tuviah Snyder (now at Apple), was responsible for much of these updates and changes first at Metacard and then at its acquirer Runtime Revolution.

I even wrote some of my first programs as Hypercard compatible stacks. Was quite fun to see my apps on download.com, back in the day when that meant something :).

I always joked it required please and thank you due to its verbosity, but was super simple, accessible, and worked!

How nice, that even today one can take their legacy Hypercard Stacks and run them in the web, mobile, etc. Or create something new in what was more structured vibecoding before vibecoding :).

asnyder commented on Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative using proof-of-work capjs.js.org/... · Posted by u/tiagorangel

asnyder · 3 months ago

What about integrating Altcha (altcha.org) is hard? Seems pretty straightforward.