Building a multiplayer podcast editor with Automerge
Experience report of building a complex collaborative UI on top of a sync and versioning engine
Adam Solove
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Designing a better podcast editor
A better concept model and more efficient tools for editing spoken word audio
Epic handshake: reorg half a seat to the left
How to avoid handoffs by defining the right roles
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Designing and building embedded UIs
Learning about learning
Notes on study skills, meta-cognition, and how organizations learn — distilled from a vacation spent reading about learning
Pure UI control
If Pure UI gave teams a shared language for display states, what’s the same idea for an interface’s behavior — a case for making control state explicit
What are the important problems in UI engineering?
Let’s escape the day-to-day to survey what’s coming next
Preact in pictures
I gave a talk at tonight’s ReactJS Denver meetup about Preact
The new fast: advanced web performance best practices for 2017
Or: what Souders’ books didn’t tell you because it only happened in the last two years
Concurrent ML has a branding problem
And some suggestions from a complete outsider
Synchronizable abstractions for understandable concurrency
Or: what is Concurrent ML all about?
Preact internals #3: some fiddly little bits
How the virtual dom actually gets rendered to the DOM
Preact internals #2: the component model
What makes React’s component model — composable, stateful, declarative — actually work, and how Preact implements both class-based and functional components
Preact internals #1: the easy parts
An introduction and gentle first steps in a series where we’ll read the Preact codebase and try to completely understand it
Mismatched assets with streaming service workers
An open question: when a service worker caches the header but streams the body, how do you keep CSS and markup from drifting?
Exhaustiveness checking in Flow
Flow’s exhaustiveness checking has a gap — but a cast to `empty` gets you the behavior the type system can’t quite express
Modeling business problems with ADTs in Flow/js
Tagged unions in Flow turn out to replace the worst part of ORM modeling: the big bag of nullable, secretly-correlated attributes
React.js & Om talk
Videos and slides from a two-part introductory talk on React and then Om, given to the DC-area Clojure user group
Om experience report
First impressions of David Nolen’s Om — a thin ClojureScript wrapper over React — after building a small map-styling app over Christmas
Constraint programming in the browser
My JSConf 2013 talk on Cassowary in the browser, plus a short reading list on constraint solvers for UI
You should speak at JSConf
How I went from no topic to a JSConf community-track talk in four weeks — and why you should try it too
Being inspired by Sketchpad
What Ivan Sutherland’s 1963 thesis still has to teach us — method dispatch, prototypical inheritance, and constraint-driven UI
Stateful views
MV* frameworks handle stateless event bindings well, but drag-and-drop and other multi-step interactions want state machines
Deferred method combinator
Wrapping async dependencies with a higher-order function, so callers can keep treating a method as fire-and-forget