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Feb 25 2025 22 ep. 70 mins 119
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A podcast about local-first software development

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#21 – Seph Gentle: Google Wave, eg-walker, creativity, AI

Feb 25 2025 89 mins  
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 + XCRDTs are the futureCollaborative Text

#20 – Adam Wulf: Muse

Feb 04 2025 93 mins  
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 distri

#19 – Brooklyn Zelenka: UCAN, Beehive, Beelay

Jan 14 2025 71 mins  
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 i

Special episode: Apps vs Files with Gordon Brander, Peter van Hardenberg & Jess Martin.

Dec 31 2024 69 mins  
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 podcastGordon Brander Peter van HardenbergJess MartinLinks: Website: localfirst.fmX/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfmYouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm

#18 – James Arthur: ElectricSQL, read-path syncing, PGLite

Dec 03 2024 66 mins  
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

#17 – Kyle Simpson: Local-first identity

Nov 12 2024 92 mins  
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.E

#16 – Anselm Eickhoff: Jazz

Oct 23 2024 73 mins  
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 podcastAnselm Eickhoff: x.com/anselm_io / anselm.iojazz.toolsGarden ComputingLinks: Website: localfirst.fmX/Twitt

#15 – Tuomas Artman: Linear, sync engines, rethought startup MVP

Oct 01 2024 61 mins  
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 podcastTuomas Artman: x.com

#14 – Matthew Weidner: Architectures for Central Server Collaboration

Sep 03 2024 57 mins  
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

#13 – Maggie Appleton: Barefoot Developers, AI, end-user programming

Aug 13 2024 65 mins  
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. Menti