Building a better web
Episode #24 is out.
Ben Holmes on exploring local-first software by building a simple sync engine from scratch.
Currently happening in the USA 🇺🇸: Drones are following whistleblowers, government systems are being logged in to from Russia, and activity logs are being altered from employees of the Department of Government Efficiency.
Are we great again yet?
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
Episode #23 is out.
Sujay Jayakar on building the sync engine behind Dropbox and Convex.
Bring argument parsing (e.g. `clap`) to `no-std` constrained targets
https://github.com/inthehack/noshell
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://github.com/inthehack/noshell
facet: Rust reflection, serialization, deserialization — know the shape of your types
https://github.com/facet-rs/facet
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://github.com/facet-rs/facet
We're interested in creating a merch store of Rust programming language-themed items! Proceeds would go toward initiatives that support Rust and its community 🦀 If you have opinions about merch & swag, we'd love to hear from you via this survey by April 17: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0hzBUbU7y447mGTRrtOQv035OTLtw2u2SikiH4mIw8n_nAA/viewform
Episode #22 is out.
Paul Butler on Jamsocket, Y-Sweet and when to build vs buy a sync engine.
FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/ Please boost for awareness, reach and to public shame Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Perplexity and other such AI companies.
@DenverSec
Damn, if I had some reminder other than just remembering to check the feed here & also knew the location I would have joined 😭
Any calendar avaliable for the meetups? If not, I happen to think https://lu.ma is fantastic to use as a host and attendee. Would love to help set it up if that would be helpful
Episode #21 is out.
Seph Gentle on Google Wave, eg-walker, rich text editing and thoughts on AI.
Episode #20 is out.
Adam Wulf (@adamwulf) on the evolution of Muse, life as a solopreneur and analytics in local-first applications.
Episode #19 is out.
Brooklyn Zelenka on decentralized, local-first authorization and access control discussing projects such as UCAN, Beehive and Beelay.
Our first #special is out.
Apps vs Files with Gordon Brander, Peter van Hardenberg & Jess Martin.
Episode #18 is out.
James Arthur on ElectricSQL, read/write-path syncing and PGlite to run Postgres everywhere via WASM.
@mauve
Any idea why? Fust instinct/hunch says maybe hitting a sandbox violation issue... So actually you would want that to break the app.
Thanks to @localfirstfm
I have been reminded about the #localfirst movent and how much I am excited about it!
I am serious about starting some local chapter/group around these topics & ideas in the #Denver area
Who's with me?😀
"It is important to realize that science, which knows no national boundaries & whose achievements are the common possession of mankind, has through the ages united men in their efforts to elucidate the foundations of our knowledge."
Niels Bohr
