Alex Good
patternist.xyz
Alex Good
@patternist.xyz
I work on local-first software, currently building Automerge at Ink and Switch. Find me at patternist.xyz
Moving ranges of text is really thorny. The problems are with concurrent changes, there's loads of annoying edge cases. E.g. I move paragraph A to be inside paragraph B and you concurrently move paragraph B to be inside paragraph A.
August 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
That's a typo on my part, I've fixed it now, the actual figure is 1.3 _Mb_
July 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Oh that looks great! I just finished Plausibility, so this is next up.
June 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I very much enjoyed "The Origins of Evolutionary Innovations", which examines in more detail what kind of relationship you need between genotype and phenotype in order to have robust, evolvable organisms.
June 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
It preserves all the history but it's not syncing the game state, it's syncing the level editor. What you're looking at is someone playing the game whilst someone else concurrently edits the level.
February 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I'm using Silverblue on my AMD Framework 13. I had a strange issue getting it booting for the first time (github.com/fedora-silve...) but since then it's been fine. This laptop doesn't have nvidia hardware though so 🤷.
January 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This reminds me of the "dust hypothesis" in Greg Egan's Permutation City. The idea being that given a cloud of dust with enough particles you could map each state of the dust cloud to each state of the brain and thus interpret the dust cloud as a simulation of a brain.
December 5, 2024 at 9:47 AM
We have CodeMirror bindings github.com/automerge/au... which you could try hooking up.
GitHub - automerge/automerge-codemirror
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November 28, 2024 at 9:50 AM
Excellent! I love this sentiment from the site: "what if building websites didn't have to be so complicated", 💯.

Drop me a DM and let's arrange a call.
November 23, 2024 at 2:16 PM
The quick start definitely needs some work. Any chance you would be up for a chat about it? I want to improve the docs so I want to hear from new users about what is confusing or strange.
November 23, 2024 at 1:59 PM