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The guest of this episode is Ben Holmes, a senior web developer and educator known for his whiteboard videos. After having spent most of his career building server-centric applications, Ben recently explored local-first software by building a simple sync engine which we talk through in-depth.  Mentioned in podcast: * Ben Holmes: Website [https://bholmes.dev] + X [https://x.com/bholmesdev] + YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@bholmesdev] + Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/bholmes.dev] + GitHub [https://github.com/bholmesdev] * Astro [https://astro.build] * Simple Sync Engine [https://github.com/bholmesdev/simple-sync-engine] * Warp [https://www.warp.dev] * Stop Building Databases [https://sqlsync.dev/posts/stop-building-databases]by Carl Sverre * SQLSync [https://sqlsync.dev] * Graft [https://github.com/orbitinghail/graft] Links: *  Website: localfirst.fm [https://localfirst.fm/] * X/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfm [https://x.com/localfirstfm] * YouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm [https://www.youtube.com/@localfirstfm] Thank you to Jazz [https://jazz.tools/] for supporting the podcast.

This episode's guest is Sujay Jayakar, co-founder of Convex and early engineer at Dropbox. In this conversation, Sujay shares the story of how the sync engine powering Dropbox was initially built and later redesigned to address all sorts of distributed systems problems  Mentioned in podcast: * Sujay Jayakar: X [https://x.com/sujayakar314] + GitHub [https://github.com/sujayakar] + Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/sujayakar.bsky.social] + Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sujayakar] * Convex [https://www.convex.dev] * Dropbox [https://www.dropbox.com] * Tech Talk on Dropbox’s Architecture [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE4gwstWhmc] * Rewriting the heart of our sync engine [https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-our-sync-engine] * Testing sync at Dropbox [https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/-testing-our-new-sync-engine] * How Convex Works [https://stack.convex.dev/how-convex-works] * A Map of Sync [https://stack.convex.dev/a-map-of-sync] * An Object Sync Engine for Local-first Apps [https://stack.convex.dev/object-sync-engine] Links: *  Website: localfirst.fm [https://localfirst.fm/] * X/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfm [https://x.com/localfirstfm] * YouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm [https://www.youtube.com/@localfirstfm] Thank you to Jazz [https://jazz.tools/] for supporting the podcast.

The guest of this episodeis Paul Butler, founder of Jamsocket and creator of the Y-Sweet project. This conversation will delve into building vs buying a sync engine and explore the various projects behind Jamsocket including Plane, Y-Sweet and ForeverVM. Mentioned in podcast: * Paul Butler: Website [https://paulbutler.org] + X [https://x.com/paulgb] * Jamsocket [https://jamsocket.com] * Learn Yjs [https://learn.yjs.dev] * Y-Sweet [https://jamsocket.com/y-sweet] * Plane [https://plane.dev] * ForeverVM [https://forevervm.com] * You might not need a CRDT [https://jamsocket.com/blog/you-might-not-need-a-crdt] * AI as a Player in Multiplayer [https://jamsocket.com/blog/case-study-assistant] * Browsertech Digest Trip Report: Local First Conf [https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsertech-digest-trip-report-local-first-conf] * Browsertech Digest: Encrypting offline storage for local-first apps [https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsertech-digest-encrypting-offline-storage-for] * Browsertech Digest: Figma is a File Editor [https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsertech-digest-figma-is-a-file-editor] * The WebAssembly App Gap [https://paulbutler.org/2020/the-webassembly-app-gap] Links: *  Website: localfirst.fm [https://localfirst.fm/] * X/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfm [https://x.com/localfirstfm] * YouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm [https://www.youtube.com/@localfirstfm] Thank you to ElectricSQL [https://electric-sql.com/] and Jazz [https://jazz.tools] for supporting the podcast.

The guest of this episode is Seph Gentle, a prolific software researcher who is behind projects such as the new eg-walker paper and ShareJS, one of the oldest local-first open source projects. Before, Seph also co-created Google Wave over 10 years ago which will be explored in-depth in this episode. Mentioned in podcast: * Seph Gentle: Website [https://josephg.com/blog/] + X [https://x.com/josephgentle] * CRDTs are the future [https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-are-the-future] * Collaborative Text Editing with Eg-Walker [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjbEG7COj7o] * Hammock Driven Development - Rich Hickey [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc] Links: *  Website: localfirst.fm [https://localfirst.fm/] * X/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfm [https://x.com/localfirstfm] * YouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm [https://www.youtube.com/@localfirstfm] Thank you to ElectricSQL [https://electric-sql.com/] for supporting the podcast.

The guest of this episode is Adam Wulf, the engineer and solopreneur behind Muse, a local-first canvas-based tool for thought. This conversation will get trough the evolution of Muse as a product, company and people who made it, reflecting on the joys and struggles of building software as a team of one. Later, the conversation will dive deep into topics such as analytics and distribution of a local-first app.  Mentioned in podcast: * Adam Wulf: Website [https://adamwulf.me] + Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/adamwulf.bsky.social] + Mastodon [https://mstdn.social/@adamwulf] + GitHub [https://github.com/adamwulf] * Muse [https://museapp.com] + Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/museapp.bsky.social] + X [https://x.com/MuseAppHQ] *  Muse Discord community [https://museapp.com/community]  *  Download Muse [https://museapp.com/download] * Setapp [https://go.setapp.com/stp395] * Muse Setapp launch [https://museapp.com/memos/2024-05-muse-in-setapp] * Rebuilt iPhone app  [https://museapp.com/memos/2024-10-01-muse-v3.3-iphone] * Adam Wiggins' Retrospective [https://adamwiggins.com/muse-retrospective] * Muse Sync at Programming Local First Workshop – ECOOP’22 [https://adamwulf.me/2022/06/muse-sync-at-programming-local-first-workshop-ecoop22] Links: *  Website: localfirst.fm [https://localfirst.fm/] * X/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfm [https://x.com/localfirstfm] * YouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm [https://www.youtube.com/@localfirstfm] Thank you to Convex [https://www.convex.dev/] and ElectricSQL [https://electric-sql.com/] for supporting the podcast.