A high level but interesting write up of how Figma (a browser-based collaborative design tool) behaves like a file editor (their term), and how it overcomes the natural affinity of web apps to RDBMS-backed CRUD persistence patterns.

  • Bizzle
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    1 year ago

    Figma balls lmfao gottem

    …I’m so sorry.

  • @algorithmae
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    151 year ago

    “RDBMS-backed CRUD persistence patterns” sounds totally like fake techno-jargon in a low-budget action movie

  • Oliver Lowe
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    11 year ago

    Upspin is an interesting project made, partly, in response to how modern web apps handle your data. It’s a way to get a named file interface to stuff that doesn’t expose files and directories (folders).