Recently I've been hacking on a tiny collaborative Markdown editor at @inkandswitch.
The neat thing: collaboration was trivial to add, because I built on automerge-repo, a new local-first library announced today! 🥳
Quick report on the experience and why it felt nice:
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EXCLUSIVE: Investigation finds more than 50 MPs have owned stakes in publicly listed companies that raise questions about possible conflicts of interest and that until now have been in effect secret.
https://t.co/ay9FiLbFaG
@timClicks I would argue it’s unsurprising. Traditional news organisations are probably reluctant to make serious investments in tech reporting. And someone who understands technology is more likely to work in tech than accept the often inadequate compensation of a reporter.
Mega scoop from @harryfoxdavies: Trusts holding billions of dollars of assets for Roman Abramovich were amended to transfer beneficial ownership to his seven children shortly before sanctions were imposed on the Russian oligarch. https://t.co/p4EJjvesGF
Exclusive: Labour has sold a stall at its party conference to a company led by a leading Tory donor whose comments about “foreign Muslims” running urban areas were recently condemned by the Labour party chair, Anneliese Dodds.
https://t.co/t6RSPmE1t7
(6/6) Whether the tool will be adopted remains to be seen - it was a fun little experiment nonetheless.
Also, @mrb_barton doesn't know it yet, but he's solely responsible for the repository description.
I made a CLI tool to help @gdndevelopers get a summary of their contributions to the organisation at a glance (pull requests and code reviews). I chose Rust to write it - here's why (🧵)
https://t.co/LDDPLeJNMj
(5/6) I still get frustrated at the strictness of the compiler (which is a testament to how good it is), but I found the ease of setting up a Rust project refreshing compared to the Kafkaesque nightmare that is the JS ecosystem.