Hacker News: lewisjoe

New comment by lewisjoe in "2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out"

lewisjoe — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:39:12 +0000

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 things to buy sooner?

New comment by lewisjoe in "Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror"

lewisjoe — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:59:13 +0000

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's selection and draw a custom layer.

All this makes reasoning about changes a lot more saner and intuitive. I've always wondered why prosemirror's transactions & steps couldn't be simplified further so I'm one vote up for the new design direction!

New comment by lewisjoe in "Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror"

lewisjoe — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:52:26 +0000

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 pick prosemirror any day over Lexical.

New comment by lewisjoe in "Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror"

lewisjoe — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:27:56 +0000

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 uses Prosemirror for composing text on the web.

There is an entire YC company built on top of Prosemirror (Tiptap).

The thought that Prosemirror is no more in active development is scary.

New comment by lewisjoe in "I Love the Computer"

lewisjoe — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:15:21 +0000

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 new things with this white boxy device on my table top - was truly addictive.

I can't say the feeling remains because most new stuff that I learn now is not runnable on my machine now. Tech has gone back to the days when owning hardware that's capable of running the latest has become a costly affair.

New comment by lewisjoe in "Native all the way, until you need text"

lewisjoe — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:01:14 +0000

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?

New comment by lewisjoe in "Native all the way, until you need text"

lewisjoe — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:57:00 +0000

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.

New comment by lewisjoe in "Nordstjernen Web Browser"

lewisjoe — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:36:22 +0000

Got it. Thanks!

New comment by lewisjoe in "Nordstjernen Web Browser"

lewisjoe — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:34:12 +0000

Congrats on the journey. How did you implement the layouting engine? And how much of an effort did it take?

New comment by lewisjoe in "Nordstjernen Web Browser"

lewisjoe — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:23:50 +0000

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.

New comment by lewisjoe in "Show HN: Adam – An embeddable cross-platform AI agent library"

lewisjoe — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:39:25 +0000

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 checking out.

New comment by lewisjoe in "CSS as a Query Language"

lewisjoe — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:28:00 +0000

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 just specifying CSS selectors.

Works like magic!

Antirez is working on a Hacker News alternative

lewisjoe — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:39:00 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/2044773715846500531

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795987

Points: 3

# Comments: 8

New comment by lewisjoe in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

lewisjoe — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:15:49 +0000

    > 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 on a CLI is dead on arrival.

Incorrect observation. Claude web does support skills upload. I guess claude runs code_interpreter tool and filesystem in the background to run user uploaded skills. ChatGPT business plans too allow uploading custom skills in web.

I can see Skills becoming a standard soon. But the concern still holds. When you publish a MCP you liberate the user out of installing anything. But with skills what happens if the skill running environment don't have access to the cli binary or if it isn't in PATH?

New comment by lewisjoe in "Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?"

lewisjoe — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:00:47 +0000

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 generation

Although AI is the main reason why I'm able to work on all these projects concurrently.

New comment by lewisjoe in "Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac"

lewisjoe — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:17:28 +0000

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!

New comment by lewisjoe in "Pretext's most interesting use cases have no DOM at all"

lewisjoe — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:06:36 +0000

Got it! :)

New comment by lewisjoe in "Pretext's most interesting use cases have no DOM at all"

lewisjoe — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:11:24 +0000

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 styles, etc.

Once you take pretext out of browser environment, you'll have to worry about lot more things around fonts.

Google Workspace no longer supports MCP

lewisjoe — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:25:16 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli/pull/275

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587036

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by lewisjoe in "Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout"

lewisjoe — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:08:52 +0000

If the author is right, this is going to be huge for GUI web frameworks and for future rich text editors.