Matthew Weidner
@mweidner.bsky.social
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It took almost two years…! The Fugue paper that @mweidner.bsky.social and I wrote about interleaving in collaborative text editing algorithms was finally accepted by IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
paywalled: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/111...
free: arxiv.org/abs/2305.00583
paywalled: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/111...
free: arxiv.org/abs/2305.00583
The Art of the Fugue: Minimizing Interleaving in Collaborative Text Editing
Most existing algorithms for replicated lists, which are widely used in collaborative text editors, suffer from a problem: when two users concurrently insert text at the same position in the document,...
arxiv.org
October 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
It took almost two years…! The Fugue paper that @mweidner.bsky.social and I wrote about interleaving in collaborative text editing algorithms was finally accepted by IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
paywalled: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/111...
free: arxiv.org/abs/2305.00583
paywalled: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/111...
free: arxiv.org/abs/2305.00583
I made a guest post on @powersync.com's blog: powersync.com/blog/collabo...
It describes a demo we made of collaborative text editing on top of PowerSync's DB sync engine, using character IDs & totally-ordered updates in a DB table (w/o CRDTs).
It describes a demo we made of collaborative text editing on top of PowerSync's DB sync engine, using character IDs & totally-ordered updates in a DB table (w/o CRDTs).
Collaborative Text Editing Over PowerSync
This blog post describes the resulting demo of collaborative text editing over PowerSync. The demo uses Tiptap as the editor, has basic support for shared cursors and anonymous share links, and includ...
powersync.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I made a guest post on @powersync.com's blog: powersync.com/blog/collabo...
It describes a demo we made of collaborative text editing on top of PowerSync's DB sync engine, using character IDs & totally-ordered updates in a DB table (w/o CRDTs).
It describes a demo we made of collaborative text editing on top of PowerSync's DB sync engine, using character IDs & totally-ordered updates in a DB table (w/o CRDTs).
Reposted by Matthew Weidner
Watch @mweidner.bsky.social talk about collaborative text editing without CRDTs or OT. youtu.be/5CFrpd0sG-g?...
Matthew Weidner.mp4
Whether your app is local-first or more traditional, collaborative text editing is a tricky problem that requires advanced algorithms. Or does it? In this ta...
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June 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Watch @mweidner.bsky.social talk about collaborative text editing without CRDTs or OT. youtu.be/5CFrpd0sG-g?...
Reposted by Matthew Weidner
"Collaborative text editing without CRDTs or OT"
Awesome talk from @mweidner.bsky.social on how you don't need CRDTs to build collaborative text editing.
Awesome talk from @mweidner.bsky.social on how you don't need CRDTs to build collaborative text editing.
May 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
"Collaborative text editing without CRDTs or OT"
Awesome talk from @mweidner.bsky.social on how you don't need CRDTs to build collaborative text editing.
Awesome talk from @mweidner.bsky.social on how you don't need CRDTs to build collaborative text editing.
New blog post: "Collaborative Text Editing without CRDTs or OT". It describes what I hope is a simpler and more flexible approach to the hardest part of a collaborative app, text editing. mattweidner.com/2025/05/21/t...
Collaborative Text Editing without CRDTs or OT - Matthew Weidner
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May 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
New blog post: "Collaborative Text Editing without CRDTs or OT". It describes what I hope is a simpler and more flexible approach to the hardest part of a collaborative app, text editing. mattweidner.com/2025/05/21/t...
I look forward to talking about some new ideas from my work at Common Curriculum & CMU!
We’re excited to announce that @mweidner.bsky.social PhD student at CMU, will be speaking at Local-First Conf 2025! Matthew will share a surprisingly simple approach to collaborative text editing—no CRDTs or OT required.
April 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I look forward to talking about some new ideas from my work at Common Curriculum & CMU!
My most recent blog post (from last summer): Architectures for real-time collaborative apps using a central server. It includes classic CRDT/OT approaches, why those might be overkill, and a classification table for existing apps/tools. mattweidner.com/2024/06/04/s...
April 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
My most recent blog post (from last summer): Architectures for real-time collaborative apps using a central server. It includes classic CRDT/OT approaches, why those might be overkill, and a classification table for existing apps/tools. mattweidner.com/2024/06/04/s...