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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.

The guest of this episode is Brooklyn Zelenka, a local-first researcher and creator of various projects including UCAN and Beehive. This conversation, will go deep on authorization and access control in a decentralized, local-first environment and explore this topic by learning about UCAN and Beehive. Later, the conversation will also diving into Beelay, a new generic sync server implementation developed by Ink & Switch.  Mentioned in podcast: * Brooklyn Zelenka: Website [https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com] + GitHub [https://github.com/expede] + Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/expede.wtf] + Mastodon [https://types.pl/@expede] * Messaging Layer Security (MLS) [https://messaginglayersecurity.rocks] * Messaging layer security: Encrypting a group chat [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FESp2LHd42U] * TreeKEM [https://inria.hal.science/hal-02425247] * Group Messaging for Secure Asynchronous Collaboration by Matthew A. Weidner [https://mattweidner.com/assets/pdf/acs-dissertation.pdf] * Beehive lab notebook [https://www.inkandswitch.com/beehive/notebook] * UCAN Working Group [https://github.com/ucan-wg] * UCAN - Be in control of your auth: Brooklyn Zelenka (Local-First Conf) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fziCbcKAd4] * Automerge [https://automerge.org] * WNFS Working Group [https://github.com/wnfs-wg] * Robust Composition: Towards a Unified Approach to Access Control and Concurrency Control by Mark Samuel Miller [http://www.erights.org/talks/thesis/markm-thesis.pdf] * SPKI Certificate Theory [https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2693] * Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA) [https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8032] * Comparison of Symmetric Encryption Methods [https://soatok.blog/2020/07/12/comparison-of-symmetric-encryption-methods] 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.

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  [https://gordonbrander.com] * Peter van Hardenberg [https://www.pvh.ca] * Jess Martin [https://jessmart.in] 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]

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 [https://x.com/thruflo] / bsky.app/profile/thruflo [https://bsky.app/profile/thruflo.com] * ElectricSQL [https://electric-sql.com] * ElectricSQL - Quickstart [https://electric-sql.com/docs/quickstart] * ElectricSQL - Github [https://github.com/electric-sql/electric] * Discord - ElectricSQL [https://discord.electric-sql.com] * PGlite [https://pglite.dev] * PGlite - Github [https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite] * database.build [https://database.build] * trigger.dev [https://trigger.dev] 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 PowerSync [https://www.powersync.com/] and Rocicorp [https://rocicorp.dev/] for supporting the podcast.