(2021-11-19) Martin Realtime Apps And Thinking About Thinking

Jess Martin on Real-Time Apps and Thinking about Thinking. Building real-time, multi-user apps..I’ve been working with the Croquet team for the past two months. Croquet is a library and platform for building multiplayer web applications with no server.

I believe that in the future, most applications will feature real-time collaboration and Croquet is a great solution to quickly build those applications

In the process of building demos with Croquet, I’ve starting to get a feeling for the shape of real-time collaborative applications generally.

I’ve also heightened my awareness of how miserable our current user interfaces are when it comes to collaborating in real time. I’ve written a brief draft describing the interface problem called Collaborating with the Invisible.

Finally, I’ve started down the rabbit hole of truly understanding what CRDTs do, what kinds of problems they solve, how they fit with Croquet, and so forth. Much to learn here still.

Thinking about thinking tools and building prototypes

From where I sit, it seems the pace of experimentation in tools for thought is accelerating!