lewisjoe

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Anyhropic Launches Google Docs Alternative: Claude Docs(theverge.com)
2 points by lewisjoe 3h ago|0 comments
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by lewisjoe 1mo ago
I'm in the middle of my home construction. Any list of RAM/NAND involved electronics that I should be buying sooner than later? Obviously I need an SSD setup for security cams feed recordings. Just wondering are there any such thi
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by lewisjoe 3mo ago
I'm part of the Zoho Writer team (Google docs alternative). And the new architecture is very similar to Zoho Writer i.e edits represented as a sequence of retains/keeps followed by action. Also the decision to forego browser'
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by lewisjoe 3mo ago
The person who got inspired by prosemirror and built lexical is no more at meta. Go to the repository and you'll find it's already in maintenance mode. Its promise of cross platform extensible editor is unrealised yet. I'd pi
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by lewisjoe 3mo ago
This is amusing as well as slightly scary. Prosemirror over the years has become the backbone of editors on the web. ChatGPT uses it. Gemini uses it. Linked chat and feed composers are Prosemirror powered. Literally every serious product us
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by lewisjoe 3mo ago
Takes me back to the time where I would pickup any books that taught anything about computers/programming. I was too young to understand any of it, but the fact that there's this knowledge to be unlocked, that would then let me do
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by lewisjoe 4mo ago
Just checked out VMPrint and it's crazy! Keep up the efforts. If you/someone could get a HTML/CSS input layer in front of VMPrint that would be a killer feature? Or is it possible already?
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by lewisjoe 4mo ago
If you squint enough, you'll see the official Google doc app for Android/iOS is a webview (i.e the editor part) Fancy text rendering/editing is hard to implement when you leave the luxury of webviews.
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by lewisjoe 4mo ago
Got it. Thanks!
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by lewisjoe 4mo ago
Congrats on the journey. How did you implement the layouting engine? And how much of an effort did it take?
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by lewisjoe 4mo ago
Honest question: How can an entire html/CSS layout engine fit in a single layout.c that I can read over an afternoon? This looks too simple to be usable for serious work.
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by lewisjoe 4mo ago
Jetbrains maintain a kotlin based ADK - https://github.com/JetBrains/koog Since it's written using kotlin multiplatform it's compilable to js/wasm/ios/android or any platform of choice. Worth c
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by lewisjoe 5mo ago
What's more fun is: LLMs too are really good at CSS selectors. I've been building a document editing agent and I used this fact to present the document as HTML to LLM and make it query and pull pieces of documents into context by
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Antirez is working on a Hacker News alternative(twitter.com)
3 points by lewisjoe 5mo ago|8 comments
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by lewisjoe 5mo ago
> ChatGPT can’t run CLIs. Neither can Perplexity or the standard web version of Claude. Unless you are using a full-blown compute environment (like Perplexity Computer, Claude Cowork, Claude Code, or Codex), any skill that relies
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by lewisjoe 5mo ago
1. Reviving an old project that lets users sync their google docs as blog posts. 2. Writing a rich text editor library powered by pretext for cheap pagination 3. A layout engine that understands html/CSS subset for lightning fast pdf g
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by lewisjoe 6mo ago
Tempted to write a grammarly-like underline engine that flags writing mistakes across all apps and browser. Fully private grammarly alternative without even bundling an LLM!
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by lewisjoe 6mo ago
Got it! :)
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by lewisjoe 6mo ago
This is not an accurate take. Especially the SSR one. Pretext doesn't liberate text layout from the browser entirely (at least not yet). It still uses canvas.measureText that does critical heavy lifting like font fallbacks, default sty
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Google Workspace no longer supports MCP(github.com)
2 points by lewisjoe 6mo ago|0 comments
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by lewisjoe 6mo ago
If the author is right, this is going to be huge for GUI web frameworks and for future rich text editors.
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by lewisjoe 6mo ago
Quick overview of pretext: if you want to layout text on the web, you have to use canvas.measureText API and implement line-breaking / segmentation / RTL yourself. Pretext makes this easier. Just pass the text and text properties
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Pretext: browser independent text layouting engine for the web(twitter.com)
3 points by lewisjoe 6mo ago|0 comments
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by lewisjoe 6mo ago
This is great work. I'm curious how did you get the agentic behavior integrated into your datamodel? 1. How does the AI read your document? have you exposed a JSON/XML? 2. How is AI generating edits over the document? 3. How are b
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by lewisjoe 6mo ago
Can you elaborate more?
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by lewisjoe 7mo ago
Excellent project! I see that the agent modifies the google docs using an interesting technique: convert doc to html, AI operates over the HTML and then diff the original html with ai-modified html, send the diff as batchUpdate to gdocs. IM
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by lewisjoe 7mo ago
How to expose my product suite's API to AI has been a roller coster ride. First it was tool calling hooks, then MCP, then later folks found out AI is better at coding so MCPs suddenly became code-mode, then people realized skills are
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by lewisjoe 7mo ago
It honestly doesn't make any sense. Interestingly, India was bold enough to move its government infra to Zoho's office suite cutting all reliance on Microsoft. It's only sane that other countries do the same.
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by lewisjoe 7mo ago
Quick doubt: did you modify Pi to make it browser compatible? 1. If yes, does it understand skills? 2. If it does have skills support, how are skills fed into it in a browser environment (without the filesystem, folders and stuff)
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by lewisjoe 7mo ago
Good is really good at engineering great software and really sucks at making them enterprise ready. It's why they've been failing with GCP, Google Tables (shutdown now I guess), Analytics or any product that aims for enterprise co

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