Back in the mid 2000s when video started to become used more for technical communication, the two videos that blew my mind were DHH's Ruby on Rails demo, which many of you have probably seen, and Avi Bryant's Dabble DB, which I'm guessing you haven't:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCVj5RZOqwY …
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If you pay careful attention, there's a feature somewhere in there that uses a trick where they insert invisible Unicode characters in strings so they can detect the user's changes when they copy and paste and send it back to the application.
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Replying to @pervognsen
Very belated reply: that was actually for a separate tool, demoed athttps://vimeo.com/2356472
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So my memory of it wasn't totally fabricated! I could have sworn it was one of those demos. Did it end up shipping as is?
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It "shipped" but never got any serious use or any attention from us, and it wasn't very robust to weird browser/OS configs. But yeah, it was a sweet hack all around.
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