Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

baby: you see this playpen? this cage they’ve got me in? you know what it’s short for? play penitentiary. yeah, that’s right. and they decide when i come and go. [takes a long swig from the baby bottle] geahhhh 🫩

I made a fun little thing over the weekend that had been on my mind since the local-first conf. I combined @ethersync and the Language Server Protocol to enable some kind of real-time collaboration in Helix.

I use the "textDocument/didChange" event to track editor's changes and convert them to an edit message in Ethersync.

When a peer makes changes, the other peer receives them from the Ethersync daemon and converts them into a "workspace/applyEdit" message.

Also thinking about using inlay hints for showing other peer's cursor

I'm not sure if that will even be able to work properly, but it's worth trying anyway

Ethersync: https://github.com/ethersync/ethersync

#localfirst #p2p #lsp

🦝 YOU HAVE TO GIVE ME YOUR AD

🦝 YES YOU CAN SEE WHITE AROUND EVERY PART OF MY IRIS, FORGET ABOUT THAT

🦝 YOU HAVE TO MAKE A 468x60 PIXEL BANNER AD IN JPG OR PNG FORMAT AND GIVE IT TO ME

🐇 jesus oh jesus why

🦝 SO THAT WE CAN BRING

🦝 THE INTERNET

🦝 BACK

A parallel universe where the concept of a "key board", be it a piano or a typewriter keyboard, never got popular. Most people are using fretted lute / guitar input with their computers; people who mastered chords can type faster than those who cannot. Some countries prefer violin/shamisen style of input, and thus in the 40 years of computerisation their spoken languages have changed to incorporate legatos and pitch changes. The biggest coder flame war of all times is not vim vs emacs but plectrum vs bow. A few historians uncover a long-forgotten prototype of a computer controlled by percussion.