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The guest of this episode is Matthew Weidner, a computer science PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University focussing on distributed systems and local-first software. Matthew has recently published an extensive blog post about architectures for central server collaboration which is explored in depth in this conversation comparing different approaches such as CRDTs and event sourcing.

Mentioned in podcast

• Matthew Weidner: x.com/MatthewWeidner3 / mattweidner.com
• Architectures for Central Server Collaboration
• TRVE Data project
• Shapiro 2011 paper
• Carlos Baquero papers
• CRDT paper (the "very theoretical" one)
• Collabs: Docs / Paper
• Jupiter collaboration system from the 90s
• Building on Quicksand
• Immutability Changes Everything
• Ink & Switch's Upwelling
• list-positions
• Fractional indexing

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• YouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm

Thank you to Expo and Rocicorp for supporting the podcast.

The guest of this episode is Maggie Appleton, a designer, anthropologist and developer who has recently explored the world of local-first by giving the closing keynote at the last local-first conf. This conversation will dive into the topics of her talk including home cooked software, the idea behind barefoot developers and how AI complements local-first software development. 

Mentioned in podcast

• Maggie Appleton: x.com/Mappletons + maggieappleton.com
• Home-cooked Software and Barefoot Programmers: Maggie Appleton (Local-First Conf)
• Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers

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•  Website: localfirst.fm
• X/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfm
• YouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm

Thank you to Expo and Rocicorp for supporting the podcast.

The guest of this episode is James Pearce, the author of Tinybase, a reactive data store library for local-first apps. This conversation will explore how Tinybase works including its custom query system, the various persistence and syncing integrations as well as James’ plans for the future. 

Mentioned in podcast

• James Pearce: x.com/jamespearce + scoutsailing.com
• TinyBase
• TinyHub

Links:

•  Website: localfirst.fm
• X/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfm
• YouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm
• Local-First Conf 2024

Thank you to Expo and Rocicorp for supporting the podcast.

The guest of this episode is Adam Wiggins, who is the founder of Heroku and one of the co-authors of the local-first essay by Ink & Switch. As Adam is also a co-organizer of the first local-first conference, this conversation will reflect on the event, share our learnings and discuss a couple of key topics such as a new definition of local-first software. 

Mentioned in podcast

• Adam Wiggins: x.com/_adamwiggins_ + adamwiggins.com
• Browsertech Digest Trip Report: Local First Conf
• Alice and Bob in wonderland. Bootstrapping identity and authority in a world without servers.

Links:

•  Website: localfirst.fm
• X/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfm
• YouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm
• Local-First Conf 2024

Thank you to Expo and Rocicorp for supporting the podcast.

The guest of this episode is Matt Wonlaw, a prolific local-first tool builder who’s behind projects such as Vlcn, cr-sqlite and Materialite. Most recently Matt also joined Rocicorp to work on their new product. This conversation will go deep on his projects covering CRDTs, SQLite and incremental view maintenance.

Mentioned in podcast

• Matt Wonlaw: x.com/tantaman + github.com/tantaman
• RemoteStorage
• ownCloud
• The Virtual Table Mechanism Of SQLite
• Towards a General Database Management System of Conflict-Free Replicated Relations
• Materialite benchmark

Links:

•  Website: localfirst.fm
• X/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfm
• YouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm
• Local-First Conf 2024

Thank you to Expo and Rocicorp for supporting the podcast.

The guest of this episode is Dax Raad, who is using local-first in multiple projects including the serverless deployment tool SST.dev, a healthcare app and an upcoming personal finance app. This conversation will explore how local-first simplifies app development, the UX and data patterns he used on and how self-hosting could empower local-first apps.

Mentioned in podcast

• Dax Raad: x.com/thdxr + thdxr.com
• SST.dev
• Rethinking the startup MVP: Building a competitive product.

Links:

•  Website: localfirst.fm
• X/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfm
• YouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm
• Local-First Conf 2024

Thank you to Expo and CrabNebula for supporting the podcast.

The guest of this episode is Pirijan Ketheswaran, the creator of the Kinopio, a playful, canvas-based tool for thought. He is also the co-creator of the online IDE Glitch. This conversation will go trough his journey as a creative including his time at Fog Creek and later building Kinopio as a solo developer.

Mentioned in podcast

• Pirijan Ketheswaran: x.com/pketh + pketh.org
• Mastodon: @[email protected]
• kinopio.club
• First Four Years of Glitch 
• Kinopio: Building Offline
• are.na/kinopio

Links:

•  Website: localfirst.fm
• X/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfm
• YouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm
• Local-First Conf 2024

Thank you to Expo and CrabNebula for supporting the podcast.

The guest of this episode is James Long, the creator of local-first app called Actual Budget and the absurd-sql project which helped to pave the way to bring SQLite back to the browser. This conversation will explore his journey of building Actual Budget including implementing a syncing solution from scratch and expanding from an Electron app to mobile and the web while re-using most of the code. 

Mentioned in podcast

• James Long: x.com/jlongster + jlongster.com
• James Long: Where Have I Been?
• Actual Budget on GitHub 
• actualbudget.org
• Hybrid Logical Clocks
• Nodejs-mobile
• absurd-sql

Links:

•  Website: localfirst.fm
• X/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfm
• YouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm
• Local-First Conf 2024

Thank you to Expo and CrabNebula for supporting the podcast.

The guest of this episode is Rasmus Anderson, who helped to build many monumental products such as Spotify, Dropbox and Figma and is now working on Playbit, a local-first operating system built from scratch. 
This extended conversation will go deep on software quality, the tradeoffs of different data models and the importance of the web for modern applications. 

Mentioned in podcast

• Rasmus Andersson: x.com/rsms + rsms.me
• Playbit

Links:

•  Website: localfirst.fm
• X/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfm
• YouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm
• Local-First Conf 2024

Thank you to Expo and CrabNebula for supporting the podcast.

The guest of this episode is Kyle Matthews, who, in the past, founded Gatsby JS and is currently delving into local-first software. 
In the conversation, Kyle shares his experiences in building some small-scale local-first apps for his personal use and discusses how the utilization of a data syncing engine liberates significant development time.

Mentioned in podcast

• Kyle Mathews: x.com/kylemathews +  bricolage.io 
• bricolage.io/some-notes-on-local-first-development
• bricolage.io/build-notes-micro-apps-time-distribution
• electric-sql

Links:

•  Website: localfirst.fm
• X/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfm
• YouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm
• Local-First Conf 2024

Thank you to Expo and CrabNebula for supporting the podcast.