Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

@carnage4life This is the root cause of almost all technical conflicts I need to mediate. People wasting their time arguing, instead of understanding.

The eng leads at YouTube had a great way of addressing this. One of the ground rules for any VP-level Eng Review was that each side needed to be able to articulate the other sides perspective, including pros/cons and top concerns. If you failed to demonstrate this during the review (either explicitly or implicitly), then the meeting was stopped and rescheduled for later. Both sides were told to go back, understand each other's points, rework the deck, and come back when they could articulate each other's side.

SVPs shouldn't waste their time mediating catfights. They need to focus on making hard technical decisions that will determine the success or failure of the company. Putting this ground rule in place (and living by it) quickly got the message across -- don't bring us fights, bring us hard problems with difficult tradeoffs.

Worked wonders.

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

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