On: CRDT: Fractional Indexing

[samwillis]

Anyone unsure of what a CRDT is (I think everyone on HN must know by now), this is the perfect intro: https://www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/

The two most widely used CRDT implementations (combining JSON like general purpose types and rich text editing types) are:

- Automerge https://github.com/automerge/automerge

- Yjs https://github.com/yjs/yjs

Both have JS and Rust implementations, and have bindings to most online rich text editors.

CRDTs are addictive one you get into them.

[taneq → samwillis]

Even that link was 5 pages in (on my phone) before it deigned to mention:

> It is a Conflict-free Replicated Data Type (CRDT)

What happened to the idea of defining all non-universally-recognised acronyms the first time you use the term? With people making up new terms exponentially faster than ever before, it’s now more important than ever.

[gampleman → taneq]

To be fair it's one of those terms where merely expanding the acronym doesn't help you much understand what it is. Or if you know what a "Conflict-free Replicated Data Type" is, you've probably heard the acronym more than a few times.

[al2o3cr → taneq]

The first use is a hyperlink to a whole article defining the term, what are you on about?

[lelandfe → al2o3cr]

TBF, it uses the acronym 8 times across 500 words before giving you the actual term.

[glenngillen → al2o3cr]

Also, outside the page title/headings and the reference to the name of said external paper the first use in the document _is_ where they use the expanded name.

[hinkley → glenngillen]

five pages down.