I made some letters for this :) It was fun ty @spiralganglion.com and @seaofclouds.com and i&s.

One of the funnest projects I have ever worked on!! Huge props to @seaofclouds.com for all the incredible design work, and everyone on the team and in the community for making so many fun letters!

i made an H for this

Click around there. 😎 I made one of the "T" sketches, a port of my animated Sierpiński curve. Impressed with the other sketches, music, and background effects. Good company.

✨ happy birthday Ink & Switch! ✨ I had the best time making letters! thanks @spiralganglion.com @seaofclouds.com <3

Here are some of the letters I made for Tenfold, the fun little "birthday party" we're having as Ink & Switch turns 10 years old. • a catenoid, designed by todd matthews and coded by me • gizmos, from inkling • "enbossed" • a sphere made of circles, eclipsed 🤍 inkandswitch.com/project/tenf...

Happy birthday @inkandswitch.com! Ink & Switch is now 10 years old, and is celebrating with a piece of interactive digital art on www.inkandswitch.com – have a play with it :)

"It's been a kind of a good deal to say like, look, I'll just let Google manage my identity and then I can click the login with Google button everywhere. But it's a little bit of a deal with the devil. " @adamwiggins.com

As part of @inkandswitch.com, I'm helping to organize Lab Day, the third day of this year's @localfirstconf.com I'm in Berlin next week, gauging interest in a "meet people interested in / attending Local First Conf" Location TBD Thurs 30th 6:30pm smokesignal.events/did:plc:2cxg...

I'd like to announce github.com/MichaelMure/..., a go native @automerge.org implementation. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of the rust version (no sync protocol/repos), but has the core CRDT logic and should be reasonably fast. It produces byte identical data, and has the same license.

🎙️ Announcing two speakers for Local-First Conf 2026, Berlin: Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at — creator of Flask and co-founder of Earendil. Colin Daymond Hanna @c01in.bsky.social — co-founder of Earendil and former Balderton partner. They're speaking together. We can't wait!

The talk that launched Local-First Conf in 2024. @martin.kleppmann.com speaking about the past present and future of local first.Get your tickets for our 2026 edition: www.localfirstconf.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMq0...

Seph Gentle is a prolific software researcher behind projects including the eg-walker paper and ShareJS, one of the oldest local-first open source projects. He worked on Google Wave back in 2010, then built ShareDB — the first realtime collaborative database built on top of Operational Transform.

" Using these new technologies to make the world more local-first, especially maybe parts that have been resistant to that. Breaking down data silos is one of the biggest ones that's been such a long running topic at Ink & Switch with projects like Cambria." @adamwiggins.com

"The story of computing is one of taking these computing things that are originally are heavy and slow and require a room size computer and making them smaller and cheaper and faster. And that just opens up all kinds of new use cases." @adamwiggins.com

The 2nd lab note in my series about the local-first task framework I've been working on w/ @pvh.ca is out! Topics include distributed coordination, the router takeover protocol, offline resilience... check it out at www.inkandswitch.com/patchwork/no...

As someone who is contributing to both local-first and atproto I am delighted to see these communities moving closer together. We have a lot of principles and values in common

With two weeks left in the Local-First Conf CFP window, you might be wondering who judges the submissions. Pleased to announce this year’s committee: @adamwiggins.com, @geoffreylitt.com, @schickling.dev, and @bumble.blue This group has serious credentials. Details in the thread 👇

"Am I empowering my users to take their data and go to where they need to go when the time comes for that?" @adamwiggins.com

"I think local-first is still the guiding light for us. It's kinda like the gold standard for what software should feel like, what software should be architected around." @schickling.dev

"If what you're working on, which has something to do with empowering users or making computers and software and the internet freer and more capable for enhancing human life, then you should submit a talk." @adamwiggins.bsky.social

"AI is really shaking up everything. I think this does not make local-first at all, less relevant. I think this is, as for most things, a huge tailwind. " @schickling.dev

Thanks to @spiralganglion.com for upgrading our open graph images to a beautiful @seaofclouds.com photo. Now you can enjoy @alexwarth.bsky.social's new lab note on local-first task computing even more

I've been working with @pvh.ca on a local-first task framework at @inkandswitch.com. It distributes computation across users' computers, keeps working while you're offline, and syncs results back to everyone when you reconnect. First lab note is up. www.inkandswitch.com/patchwork/no...

Steve Ruiz joins us a speaker at Local-First Conf 2026. Steve is the founder of @tldraw.com, an infinite canvas SDK for the web. Steve and his team are using local-first principles in radical ways--hear more at the conf!

Day two of ;#QConLondon! Starting liveskeet a bit late so not covering the beginning of @martin.kleppmann.com's keynote about geopolitical tech resilience (because USA is shitshow rn). Three topics: - Multicloud - Atproto - Localfirst For multicloud, key thing is making it easy to switch

Local-First Conf 2026 is back, and I want to hear what everyone's been doing this year. What have you built? What have you learned? How about interesting challenges we need to overcome?

Just received my author copies of the second edition of DDIA! After years of seeing it only on-screen, holding the final print book in hand is very special. @chris.blue

This is our third time out with Local-First Conf! In past years we've thoroughly explored some core topics like sync engines and CRDTs. In 2026, we're broadening into areas like identity, e2ee, malleable software, and open-weight models.

Early bird tickets are sold out...😱

Following just dropped in Semble 🫳🎤  You can follow other users *and* collections 🥂

Tickets for Local-First Conf 2026 are now on sale! Join us July 12-14 in Berlin for 2 days of single-track talks, and then a 3rd day we're calling "Lab Day", hosted by us at Ink & Switch

Tickets for Local-First Conf 2026 are now on sale July 12–14 · Berlin · 300 people · single track Theme: user empowerment in an age of fluid software. We're going beyond CRDTs and sync. If you're building for user agency, this is your conference. Tickets live now → localfirstconf.com

The LIVE Programming Workshop will be held online Oct 17. Submissions due July 21. liveprog.org

@expede.wtf and @patternist.xyz presenting Automerge and Keyhive

#LocalFirst devroom at #FOSDEM will be live at 09:00 CET ! For those who are not with us in Brussels to attend 8 hours of the best speakers lineup ever, there is a live stream. You can interact with the speakers during Q&A sessions by using Matrix. See you in a bit. live stream: openlocalfirst.org

Malleable software, open social protocols, self-sovereign identity, and local models are a few topics on our mind. What do you think should be on-topic for Local-First Conf 2026?

We’re back. Save the date: www.localfirstconf.com

look mum I’m in a documentary about the next big thing in software www.youtube.com/watch?v=10d8... (thx @cultrepo.bsky.social and @localfirstconf.com !)

We’ve got a save the date announcement today for this year’s Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com - July 11th to 14th in Berlin. We’re supporting the conference & leaning into some “Day 3” content with some malleable software and other topics. Add your email to be notified!

10m documentary film on the local-first software movement! www.youtube.com/watch?v=10d8...

In 9 days from now, join the #LocalFirst and #CRDT devroom at #fosdem26 #fosdem in Brussels! @expede.wtf @patternist.xyz @automerge.org @inkandswitch.com

In 9 days from now, join the #LocalFirst and #CRDT devroom at #fosdem26 #fosdem in Brussels! @expede.wtf @patternist.xyz @automerge.org @inkandswitch.com

Join us this week with @pvh.ca of @inkandswitch.com and @automerge.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgyd... open.spotify.com/episode/4J3m...

We're all drinking from an information firehose, because sending messages via computer is frictionless. But I believe we should be able to apply social media-style algorithms to help! My new research project: adamwiggins.com/posts/perso...

After six years working on commercial products, happy to say I’m returning to the research world. Today I start as a Researcher-in-Residence at @inkandswitch.com

@patternist.xyz and I are talking about @automerge.org and Keyhive at @fosdem.org 2026 in the @localfirst.bsky.social room 🎉 If you're attending FOSDEM, come say hi! openlocalfirst.org/schedules/#4...

Most important first, there will be a drink/after party once the devroom will be over. We have booked a very nice café that will be waiting for us with warm food, beers, and any kind of drink. It is just a 10 min walk. More details here: openlocalfirst.org/blog/after-p... Come and meet us there :)

Hello #Local-First enthusiat, We have great news to share with you! @fosdem.org '26 wil be hosting a full devroom dedicated entirely to local first software. We have gathered the best lineup ever, all the major open source projects will be presenting! Come and join us, it is free! openlocalfirst.org

FoC London returns in January! Come along :)) luma.com/qe8iexzs?tk=...