Marc Bouchenoire
@marcbouchenoire.com
Design Engineer at Liveblocks, previously at Framer
I've been working on a fun little Mac app: Viewdown, a Markdown viewer. It's now ready to ship 📖 It live-reloads on every save and jumps straight to what changed. Optimized for the best and fastest reading experience. Give it a try and let me know if you like it! 🙏 viewdown.app
Viewdown — Markdown viewer for Mac, with live preview
Viewdown is a fast, beautiful Markdown viewer for Mac. Open any .md file and see it rendered, updating live as you edit it in the editor you already use.
viewdown.app
You can now upload files to @liveblocks.io! If your multiplayer app uses media, archives, or any file, `LiveFile` allows you to upload them directly to your Storage tree. Other users will see the file appear in realtime—like in this @tldraw.com clip. Learn more ↓
Today, I co-blogged and got to see @chrisnicholas.dev’s amazing visualization talents up close! 🤩 lblcks.io/W1Ehpn6
How CRDTs and sync engines keep realtime lists ordered with fractional indexing | Liveblocks blog
An interactive guide to fractional indexing, how it works, and how it’s used to power multiplayer lists in Figma and Liveblocks.
lblcks.io
If you use @xyflow.com with @liveblocks.io, you can now also update it from your Node.js backend super easily and with a beautiful API. This is _the_ way to let your React Flow be edited from custom agents. Read all about it here: liveblocks.io/docs/api-ref...
@liveblocks/react-flow | API Reference | Liveblocks
API Reference for the @liveblocks/react-flow package
liveblocks.io
The API looks like plain @xyflow.com, but underneath, it's synchronizing your graph in the smartest way possible. Selection state? Local only. Node position while dragging? Live. Conflicts? Auto-resolved. Undo/redo? Just works. ✨
Chris Nicholas@chrisnicholas.dev · 7mo agoAdd multiplayer to React Flow in 5 mins! Our new @liveblocks.io package enables plug-and-play real-time collaboration. Powered by our open-source sync engine, edits are fully conflict-resolved, allowing multiple humans & agents to edit at once. And there's more ↓
I couldn't be happier with how this turned out, both its API and how it integrates and clicks with the other Liveblocks pieces 🥹
Chris Nicholas@chrisnicholas.dev · 7mo agoAdd multiplayer to React Flow in 5 mins! Our new @liveblocks.io package enables plug-and-play real-time collaboration. Powered by our open-source sync engine, edits are fully conflict-resolved, allowing multiple humans & agents to edit at once. And there's more ↓
Integrate presence and contextual commenting in 5 minutes. We've released new React components, making it even quicker to build your collaborative app. Add realtime cursors, live avatars, and use new pinned comments in canvases or table libraries like ag-grid.com Blog post ↓
My plan for today: announce that we're open sourcing the Liveblocks server! 🎉 The internet's plan for today: continvoucly morging my mentions 😂 Anyway, here's what I actually wanted to share today:
Open sourcing the Liveblocks sync engine and dev server | Liveblocks blog
We’ve open sourced our server stack. Starting today, you can run and test your multiplayer applications with a Liveblocks server locally.
lblcks.io
We’re exploring ways to improve how Markdown is rendered in our components during streaming. • Complete partial syntax when possible (bold, links, table headers, …) • Buffer incomplete elements (partial images, broken emojis, …)
<AiChat /> just dropped. ✦ AI understands app context, can take actions, modify state. ✦ Render custom components or use pre-built UI skeletons. ✦ Persistent chats, RAG support, choose your AI, more. Just import the component and @liveblocks.io handles the rest.
I missed being able to see the films from Cannes without having to wait for months 🫶 letterboxd.com/film/sentime...
Sentimental Value (2025)
Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora ...
letterboxd.com
Finally shipped this, I've had a lot of fun making a Mac OS 9-styled design for this and keeping it "retro web" while using modern techniques. I have a blog post about the whole thing as well as what I plan to do with the site in the future, read it maybe? damien.zone/introducing-...
Introducing Mac Themes Garden! | damien's zone
A website for old Macintosh themes and some background.
damien.zone
Mac Themes Garden@macthemes.garden · 2y agoStarting NOW, all themes will be posted with: - 🤩 Updated preview images - 🌐 A link to macthemes.garden! Yes, the handle of this account is now a website where you can marvel at the more than 3,000 Kaleidoscope themes in my dataset. Learn more about the project on macthemes.garden/about/
Nathan: "The chorus to Howie Day’s Collide just happens to be exactly 23 seconds long"
Frimousse, our open-source emoji picker, has just hit 1,000 stars on GitHub ⭐
We’re open-sourcing Frimousse—a lightweight, unstyled (but with a shadcn/ui version too), and composable emoji picker for React. 😊 frimousse.liveblocks.io
Decoders now also joined the Standard Schema spec, standardschema.dev
Standard Schema
A common interface for TypeScript validation libraries
standardschema.dev
That’s a wrap, 2024! 🧡💚💙 The Letterboxd 2024 Year in Review: boxd.it/862 Presented by: NEON Illustration by: Danny Haas www.artofdanny.com 💌 Personal summaries will begin sending later today. Web version available here: letterboxd.com/yir
