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This is a special episode which was recorded as a Twitter space conversation between Gordon Brander, Peter Van Hardenberg, and Jess Martin.
This conversation explores the ideas and trade offs of apps versus files.

Mentioned in podcast

• Gordon Brander 
• Peter van Hardenberg
• Jess Martin

Links:

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

The guest of this episode is James Arthur, founder and CEO of Electric SQL, a Postgres-centric sync engine for local-first apps. This conversation will dive deep into how Electric works and explore its design decisions such as read-path syncing and using HTTP as the network layer to improve scalability. Towards the end we are also covering PGLite, a new Postgres in WASM project by Electric. 

Mentioned in podcast

• James Arthur: x.com/thruflo / bsky.app/profile/thruflo
• ElectricSQL
• ElectricSQL - Quickstart
• ElectricSQL - Github
• Discord - ElectricSQL
• PGlite
• PGlite - Github
• database.build
• trigger.dev

Links:

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

Thank you to PowerSync and Rocicorp for supporting the podcast.

The guest of this episode is Kyle Simpson, a prolific JavaScript engineer and author of the book You Don’t Know JS. Over the past years, Kyle has been researching user identity and encryption in a local-first context which we explore in depth in this episode. This conversation will dive into the story that led Kyle to local-first including what he calls Web 2.5 and Zero Servers.

Editor's Note: when Kyle speaks about SilentJS, is actually referring to QuiteJS (link below)

Mentioned in podcast

• Kyle Simpson: x.com/getifyX / me.getify.com
• Local-peer-to-peer
• Webauthn-local-client
• Local-data-lock
• Local-vault
• Storage
• Qr-data-sync
• Vella.ai
• Socket Supply
• You-Dont-Know-JS
• LoFi.so
• QuietJS
  
  

Links:

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

Thank you to PowerSync and Rocicorp for supporting the podcast.

The guest of this episode is Anselm Eickhoff, creator of Jazz and founder of Garden Computing. This conversation will dive deep into Jazz to learn how it works and which use cases it’s a good fit for by exploring various apps already built on top of Jazz. 

Mentioned in podcast

• Anselm Eickhoff: x.com/anselm_io / anselm.io
• jazz.tools
• Garden Computing

Links:

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

Thank you to PowerSync and Rocicorp for supporting the podcast.

The guest of this episode is Tuomas Artman, co-founder and CTO of Linear. Prior to Linear, Tuomas had already built sync engines for over a decade at companies like Groupon and Uber. This conversation will explore how local-first and software quality was crucial for Linear’s success and how the concept of a startup MVP should be rethought. 

Mentioned in podcast

• Tuomas Artman: x.com/artman / github.com/artman
• Linear
• Scaling the Linear Sync Engine
• Rethinking the startup Mvp: Building a competitive product
• Unexpected benefits of going local-first - Tuomas Artman (Local-First Conf)

Links:

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

Thank you to PowerSync and Rocicorp for supporting the podcast.

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

Links:

•  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 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

Links:

•  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.