I saw Martin Kleppmann’s talk a few weeks ago about his approach to realtime editing with CRDTs, and I felt a deep sense of despair. Maybe all the work I’ve been doing for the past decade won’t be part of the future after all, because Martin’s work will supersede it. Its really good. Lets back up a little. Around 2010 I worked on Google Wave. Wave was an attempt to make collaboratively editable sp