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Jasmine Otto @jatazak.bsky.social · 12h

Bay Area UX/PL folks - I'm organizing a get-together the morning of Sat, Oct 25th. Come chat about the joy and despair of making software tools for humans!
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Get coffee, chat convivial tools, and hang out with folks in human-centered computing. This month, special guest Ivan Reese is joining us! (Location is outdoors, near transit and multiple coffee shop...

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 13h

revisiting this piece i wrote almost two years ago(!) & thinking about it in context to this gentle affirmation of existence as social interaction

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 1d

curious what those features are?

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 1d

contrarian bet: html-first sync engine

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 5d

You can just make things on the web collaborative by adding a single HTML attribute...

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 1d

love this writeup & distinction between flavors of social media..

i think all the social media i have ever made (& what im after w playhtml) is about this gentle exchange of “i am here!”

we call out into the void and a stranger answers. how magical is that

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 1d

contrarian bet: html-first sync engine

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 5d

You can just make things on the web collaborative by adding a single HTML attribute...

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 2d

is there a closing date for submissions?

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shelby wilson @shheeelllbby.bsky.social · 2d

we want to publish your poetry, fiction, non-fiction, essays, graphic storytelling, and experiments that utilize the web as a medium! send your pitch to [email protected] for the next issue of the html review

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the html review — about

the html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 2d

i like a nice higraph

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 3d

Applications continue to be opaque, don't met all the need of everyone, and has an endless amount of features that no one knows they can use. I wish we understood what's happening here better outside of some studies on keyboard shortcuts.

"- There were 4,000 commands across all of Office 2003 (Word, Excel, etc)
- 80% of users only used two commands: copy and paste

Nobody used all the features, but everyone used a different set.

'At a deeper level, most in a company might not use a feature such as Track Changes (or Redlining) in Word. But their lawyer would. And contracts or legal letters might arrive via email for review. Rarely used features became part of the work of others. This network of usage was a key advantage of Office.'

– Hardcore Software, 077. What Is Software Bloat, Really?"

"When asked about their understanding of shortcut keys, the most well-known was "Ctrl + C" (copy) at 62.6%, followed by "Ctrl + V" (paste) at 59.2%. This shows that about 40% of respondents do not know the shortcut keys for copying and pasting. The third most well-known was "Ctrl + Z" (undo) at 30.6%."

"The method of keyboard shortcuts was the favorite method for only 6.37% of the users based on loose criterion and for only 1.59% of the users based on the strict criterion."

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 3d

I wish hydra had way to inspect intermediate shader code like this!

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 5d

You can just make things on the web collaborative by adding a single HTML attribute...

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 5d

Each of these custom elements can render their own shadow DOM, but use slots to keep richer data in the same level of DOM!

I'll try to finish the kanban board up soon so there is a clear example to reference.

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 5d

I think it only makes sense to sync one level of DOM at a time. But slot composition lets us get around this!

```html
<kanban-board name="...">
<kanban-column name="...">
<kanban-card name="..." description="..."></kanban-card>
</kanban-column>
</kanban-board>
```

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 5d

this still works with state-based rendering, if you use a custom element library like lit and reflect the properties/attributes of custom elements that you want synced

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Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com · 5d

part of me is scared to let go of my precious state-based rendering but part of me wants to dust off jquery and party like it's 2006

𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 5d

You can just make things on the web collaborative by adding a single HTML attribute...

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 5d

Thanks! you can do some pretty cool stuff with it already 😜

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 29d

A region HTML element will reparent shapes when they sufficiently overlap it.

A region HTML element with the sync attribute create shared portals in a canvas.

```html
<folk-region folk-sync folk-shape="x: 100; y: 100; width: 200; height: 150;">
```

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 5d

The elephant in the room is this supposes an architecture that treats the DOM as read/write rather than the prevailing architecture of top-down rendering that largely treats the DOM as read-only... which I think is a better architecture tbh, maybe more on that in the future..

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 5d

(There are surely some lightweight identity & governance primitives missing here though)

𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 5d

For these kind of small web apps, I'm curious if directly persisting/syncing the DOM would be all you need?

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 5d

You can just make things on the web collaborative by adding a single HTML attribute...

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 5d

Syncing defaults to the public automerge sync server, but you are in full control of how the syncing happens, whether it's your own sync server, P2P, or a plurality of appraches.

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 5d

This custom HTML attribute bidirectionally syncs a DOM tree to a CRDT (in this case it's automerge), which makes any part of the UI reflected to the DOM both persisted and collaborative.

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 5d

You can just make things on the web collaborative by adding a single HTML attribute...

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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 5d

The web can be made personal again.

blog.muni.town/personal-dat...

Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come

Data Ownership as a conversation changes when data resides primarily with people-governed institutions rather than corporations.

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