Is there even any interesting tech news these days that isn’t related to AI? Never has tech news felt more boring than this year 😞

Today, I co-blogged and got to see @chrisnicholas.dev’s amazing visualization talents up close! 🤩 lblcks.io/W1Ehpn6

If you use @xyflow.com with @liveblocks.io, you can now also update it from your Node.js backend super easily and with a beautiful API. This is _the_ way to let your React Flow be edited from custom agents. Read all about it here: liveblocks.io/docs/api-ref...

Liveblocks <3 🐍

Beautiful implementation by the amazing @nimeshnayaju.bsky.social! 💯

The API looks like plain @xyflow.com, but underneath, it's synchronizing your graph in the smartest way possible. Selection state? Local only. Node position while dragging? Live. Conflicts? Auto-resolved. Undo/redo? Just works. ✨

Add multiplayer to React Flow in 5 mins! Our new @liveblocks.io package enables plug-and-play real-time collaboration. Powered by our open-source sync engine, edits are fully conflict-resolved, allowing multiple humans & agents to edit at once. And there's more ↓

Liveblocks Unveil. AI agents are becoming native users of software, and apps need a new foundation. We've built it. 🗓️ April 6–10. Releases every day.

Programatically manage Liveblocks projects. Our new Management API allows you to interact with your projects, API keys, and webhooks programatically. Create projects, update webhooks, roll secret keys, and more. Available now for Enterprise customers. liveblocks.io/docs/platfo...

CANNOT WAIT

Zod isn't the only option. Our team uses decoders, built by the wonderful @nvie.com. We find it's: • Easier to read, as it looks like TypeScript. • Quicker to debug, with its human-readable error messages. • Lighter to ship, with tree-shaking and smaller bundles. Learn more ↓

TIL Plausible.io has a fantastic import-from-CSV feature! Just imported all my historical Gaug.es stats. It auto-imports only up to the moment Plausible was first used, so no double-counting of when I was still using both. Really well-done! 👏

blogged about building big and beautiful things

@stacyliveblocks.bsky.social OMG Frank! 🌭

Zen Router is not like most routing libraries. It makes deliberate trade-offs to stay maintainable as codebases and teams grow. zenrouter.liveblocks.io/docs/princip...

Two years ago I built a new router in my spare time to replace itty-router. We started adopting it gradually until it powered our entire backend.

I've built a full docs site in a day with @nvie.com! We've just open-sourced the HTTP router that's handles billions of requests per month at Liveblocks. Our team built it with Cloudflare Workers in mind, but it supports other runtimes too. Opinionated, type-safe, Zen. Get it ↓

Introducing Zen Router: our open-source HTTP router. Zen Router handles billions of requests per month at Liveblocks, and today we're open sourcing it. Initially designed for Cloudflare Workers, but also compatible with Node.js, Bun, and more. lblcks.io/Vvvviny

I've set up a whole collaborative app template for Next.js! Along with multiplayer apps, it's got live permissions: • The document immediately appears when shared. • When edit access is given, the page auto-reloads. • The user can then make real-time changes. Learn more ↓

✍️ New post: Con­tin­voucly Morged Value Couldn't get out of my head what happened to @nvie.com’s diagram – and so I wrote down a few premature thoughts about what happens when we mistake the (AI) artifact for the work … matthiasott.com/notes/contin...

One more thing however: I’m seeing an X community and some kind of coin/token claiming to collect money on my behalf. I have absolutely nothing to do with this. It’s a scam. Please DO NOT send anyone money.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Some updates on the morged saga: 1. Microsoft has reached out last week, apologized, and corrected the Learn page — it now features my original diagram with proper attribution.

Finally sat down and added dark mode to nvie.com. Sorry to everyone whose eyes have been blinded by it before 🙈

Set up E2E testing in your Liveblocks app. We've written a step-by-step guide on how to test your multiplayer app using Playwright and our new open-source dev server. lblcks.io/2nnRkJs

Hello to all new followers! 👋 How are you all doing today?

The sad part isn't even the AI here. It's the person who generated this and uploaded it without even looking at the thing. The quality people demand of themselves is steadily diminishing. So does our appreciation of art.

Kindness is underrated in professional settings.

Liveblocks is going open-source! Today we've opened up the sync engine server that powers Liveblocks Storage and Yjs on our platform. We've also built a local dev server for testing your @liveblocks.io app locally, try it in your app now: $ npx liveblocks dev

My plan for today: announce that we're open sourcing the Liveblocks server! 🎉 The internet's plan for today: continvoucly morging my mentions 😂 Anyway, here's what I actually wanted to share today:

This one actually isn't too bad! Atlassian put this guide out years ago, clearly linking back to my site to cite the source, and put care into comparing different branching strategies, styling it in a unified and on-brand style for them. That's perfectly okay, and not at all the same.

I wrote a few words last night. nvie.com/posts/15-yea...

RIP "continvoucly morged". Looks like they replaced it with a new diagram. Honestly I’m still a bit suspicious of this one. There are some inconsistent design choices that make me think this could’ve been generated as well. Though maybe it was a human in a hurry. 😅

git config --global alias.morge merge

Oh god yes, Microsoft continvoucly morged my diagram there for sure 😬

All maintainers. All the time. No excuses, join the Pledge. @opensourcepledge.com

God YouTube can be cool and good sometimes. What a brilliant video that not only has a great fucking message, but is also beautifully shot/edited. youtu.be/tWYxrowovts

Wow! This video by @mitchellh.com on feature design is such a gem. A perfect illustration of what it means to excel as a software engineer! 😍 x.com/mitchellh/st...

The Liveblocks team met in Punta Cana for this year's retreat 🇩🇴

Cannot think of even one single time I've ever wanted to "paste with formatting"

Amen! 🙏 tanstack.com/blog/directi...

Our new open-source tool, git-flow-next, has just received a powerful seal of approval from @nvie.com , the creator of git-flow 🤩 We are honored by Vincent's kind words and are committed to carrying the torch forward! 🙏

Didn't know Claude had specific keyword for how much let the model think: "think" < "think hard" < "think harder" < "ultrathink." anthropic.com/engineering/... ultrathink is specifically rainbowed in Claude Code.

how I got better at debugging permalink: wizardzines.com/comics/bette... from our free zine "So you want to be a wizard": wizardzines.com/zines/wizard/

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Vitest 4 runs simple test files faster! You can already check it out by installing Vitest 4 beta. On average, Vitest now takes 25% less time to start the test. Due to parallelisation, the overall time difference can vary. We are focusing our efforts on improving the time even more in the next beta!

Not just better for scientists. Better for everyone 🦋 https://www.webpronews.com/scientists-abandon-x-for-bluesky-amid-toxicity-and-misinfo/

entry ≠ exit. A design principle that's rarely mentioned is that entry and exit animations should not be the same. These tabs slide in, yet fade out. Why? Because we're showing intent ↓

We’re exploring ways to improve how Markdown is rendered in our components during streaming. • Complete partial syntax when possible (bold, links, table headers, …) • Buffer incomplete elements (partial images, broken emojis, …)

The full story behind Liveblocks 3.0 is here. In this 6-minute interview, @stevenfabre.com shares how we got here, why interacting with AI often feels disconnected and clunky, and how we’re fixing that at Liveblocks. lblcks.io/story-3.0