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Notes from the workbench

What a feature is actually for, what shipped, where this is going, and the pieces we build in the open along the way.

Engineering9 September 20267 min read

A node body is an ordinary widget

The canvas under Ripple Effect had to draw hundreds of cards at sixty frames a second without giving up text fields inside them. The usual answer gives up the text fields. Here is the one that does not.

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Engineering9 September 20265 min read

Counting a read in fifty-four languages

A passage editor wants to say “3 min read”. Doing that with words divided by two hundred is wrong for about a quarter of the world, so we wrote the package that gets it right and put it on GitHub.

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