If you're interested in #TTRPG games, I wrote an article on Grimwild. This innovative game combines some of my favorite Blades in the Dark systems with cinematic heroic fantasy. Check it out here: drosmir.com/blog/thought...

Carl Sverre @f0a.org of SQLSync is speaking at Sync Conf 2025 on partial replication. He takes a slightly contrarian view: no CRDTs, but instead block-level replication. Hear all about it on Nov 12.3

Honored to be speaking at SyncConf this November! The line up is stacked!

2025.04.24 edition is out 💐 www.localfirstnews.com/2025-04-24/

What if your test system could find bugs you didn’t anticipate? Meet Antithesis: deterministic simulation testing for the rest of us. It changed how I test—and build—Graft. This post covers DST’s origins, how Antithesis works, and what it taught me. sqlsync.dev/posts/antith...

Is anyone planning on going to @rustconf this year? I'm considering A. attending and B. submitting a talk about one of my open source rust projects (Culprit? Precept? Splinter? Graft? SQLSync? ...vote now!)

My vancouver.systems talk is up! It's a deep dive on Graft—a transactional storage engine providing lazy, partial and strongly consistent edge replication. Thanks to Cameron Morgan and Kir Shatrov for hosting and @tavis.damnsimple.com for video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRsD...

2025.04.04 edition is out 🐿️ www.localfirstnews.com/2025-04-03/

Fantastic post detailing Figma's sync engine. IMO one of the biggest success stories for real time sync in an application. So cool!

What if your app could combine the simplicity of physical replication with the efficiency of logical replication? Meet Graft: lazy, partial, strongly consistent edge replication. #OpenSource #EdgeComputing #Replication sqlsync.dev/posts/stop-s...

To celebrate the beginning of 2025 I implemented a error handling pattern that's been living rent free in my brain for too long. It's far from complete but if you get weirdly excited about error handling and Rust like me consider taking a look and sending me your thoughts. github.com/carlsverre/c...

New blog post! I wrote about how I use GitHub contributions as another source of motivation when working on solo projects. Specifically I added a mini GitHub contribution graph to my Polybar (system taskbar). carlsverre.com/writing/gami...

Meet SQLSync: Application development is a lot easier when you're building on top of a frontend-optimized database stack. Say goodbye to accidental database programming! sqlsync.dev/posts/stop-b...

This is a fantastic post on a simple idea that I also think should be more widely spread!

Excited to finally be on Bluesky! If you're interested to see what I'm building check out SQLSync here: sqlsync.dev