So much good stuff happening at @inkandswitch.com these days! www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/...

10 more days to submit your proposal to the #Local-First devroom at the upcoming @fosdem.org. Deadline is 5th of December. If you are into #local-first applications, frameworks, libraries and want to show your work, sync protocol, #crdt, now is the moment to apply openlocalfirst.org please share!

So glad I went to this! (you can see me in one of the photos!) Had an exciting talk with @lukeinth.bsky.social and Yan about Xenon.

absolute highlight of the week was the @inkandswitch.com meetup and talking to @wolkenmachine.bsky.social about his work on programmable ink, and catching a wild @expede.wtf and @pvh.ca too! That team remains brilliant, radical, and decent in equal measures.

Earlier today at the sync community day. Thanks @bmann.ca for arranging. Lots of user agency focused discussions and demos.

We’re hosting @syncconf.bsky.social Community Day and have an open space to drop in, hack, do demos, and connect with others working on sync and related systems. Feel free to drop in during the day, we’ll do a few group discussions in the afternoon. luma.com/l28n75qt

Myself and @seaofclouds.com will be packing new @inkandswitch.com and @automerge.org stickers at @syncconf.bsky.social tomorrow Looking forward to seeing everyone!

And one more final lightning talk. @gregdetre.bsky.social is going to share his living articles prototype. Thanks for joining us Greg! P.S. yes, the event is pretty much full up.

We've got two lightning talks confirmed for next weeks London event: Building new tools for Science * Agnes Cameron will tell us about Malleable Knitting Software * Adewale Oshineye will share GeistFabrik, a Python-based divergence engine for Obsidian vaults. ~10 spots left if you want to join

🎟️Tickets! Normal bird nearly sold out, get them now before they're gone: sync-conf-2025.eventbrite.com

See you in London, Nov 11th. Room for a couple of lightning talks if you have something to share.

Pre-conf and post-conf 🛰️ events! Meetup the evening before (Nov 11) by @expo.dev & Instant - luma.com/9ufhvv38 Community day after (Nov 13) organised by @inkandswitch.com - luma.com/l28n75qt Both already waitlist / invite only but there's priority slots for @syncconf.bsky.social attendees.

Thanks to everyone that attended the community call today! 🍿 For those that couldn't make it, here's the recording featuring @patternist.xyz, @nikgraf.bsky.social, @daffl.xyz, @spiralganglion.com, and @seaofclouds.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwOw...

We have a shiny new website courtesy of @spiralganglion.com and @seaofclouds.com 🙌 🚀 Check it out: automerge.org

So excited to share that I'm a Researcher-in-Residence @inkandswitch.com! I'll be hanging out with the amazing people there in my free time - can't wait to share what I've been working on 🥳

It's that time again: ✨we’re hiring✨ We're looking for a @godotengine.org IDE Engineer to help us build the next generation of collaboration tools inside the engine itself! More detail here: inkandswitch.com/jobs/godot-ide-engineer (Remote role 🌍🌎🌏)

It's pretty cool that Ink & Switch is contributing to this big ARIA programme now. We get two big things out of it: funding (obviously) but also a community of fascinating creators and problems to connect with. I'm learning all about the UK power grid this week. www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/d...

✨🤝 Thanks to everyone that joined us this week for the Automerge Community Call! If you weren't able to make it, here's the recording, including talks by @patternist.xyz and @matheus23.com 🍿 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhV4... 📆 Call calendar: lu.ma/automerge 🍂 Next call is September 24!

On August 27th, @expede.wtf is talking local first at the next @getdweb.net meetup, The State of the DWeb: P2P, Local-First & Where to go from here Register to join the virtual presentation www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-meetu...

Notion's new offline support is based on our rich text CRDT research x.com/ivanhzhao/st...

I bought my ticket already and will be there! Figuring out which of my colleagues at @inkandswitch.com might join us, and maybe a little community hacking alongside.

The ✨very first✨ of the monthly Automerge Community Call series is happening THIS WEDNESDAY at 9am PT! Talks 🎤😲 ∙ @patternist.xyz: Insights about Automerge 3 internals ∙ @matheus23.com: P2P Automerge Repo with @iroh.computer Come hang out, learn, and ask questions! 👉 Sign up at lu.ma/zv6tpuu4

The Ink & Switch team is coming through London and we're having a social to share some recent news and research from the lab, and catch up with people in London interested in local first, malleable software, and other similar areas of making better computing. Aug 16th, 6pm in London

Want to hear about the latest in Automerge? Come join the Community Call Kickoff on August 20 (and sign up for the calendar while you're at it!) lu.ma/zv6tpuu4

Do you write TypeScript? Enjoy Automerge? Love building both tools and community? You might be a great fit for our ✨new✨ Automerge TypeScript Maintainer role! www.inkandswitch.com/jobs/automer... (Remote role, 🇬🇧 UK-based preferred but not required)

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps www.inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...

What if a spreadsheet cell could hold multiple values at the same time? That's the idea behind Ambsheets, a project I've been working on w/ @geoffreylitt.com at @inkandswitch.com. It's a new spreadsheet that makes it easier for you to explore many possibilities simultaneously. 1/2

Added @alexwarth.bsky.social to the Ink & Switch starter pack: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Sketchpad: a truss bridge made out of fixed length constraints. (Note that instantiation followed by dismembering gives you the equivalent of a "paste" in more modern systems.)

Sketchpad: an interactive model of vanishing points made out of point-on-line and horizontal/vertical constraints!

🎉 I had a great time chatting with @schickling.dev about the emerging field of local-first access control, including UCAN and the Beehive project happening at @inkandswitch.com 🗝️🐝✨

@joshuahhh.com and I invite you to explore our experimental visual programming environment (which takes place in a dungeon) Features - dissolve the bounds of decision and explore all possibilities at once - use sigillic incantations, delve into recursive caverns vezwork.github.io/drostes-lair-post

At @inkandswitch.com we are starting a new project to research better version control tools for making games. One hypothesis: collaborating on a game should initially be as simple as working on a Google Doc, with concepts like branching introduced gradually as needed.

If you'd like to follow Ink & Switch current and former collaborators, you can find them in this Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/P1vKsvv

Ink & Switch is embarking on a new project to explore how our universal version control research might apply to building games in Godot, for both experienced and new developers. We'll start sharing lab notes as the project ramps up, but if you're familiar with the Godot IDE, we'd love to talk.

Ink & Switch is now here on Bluesky, too.