Building More Resilient Local-First Software with atproto
atproto has the potential to become a rock-solid replacement for the most fragile part of any local-first app: the sync server.
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Just a programmer trying to make a home for myself on the WWW.
Latest posts
DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought
DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.
Homomorphically Encrypting CRDTs
Homomorphic encryption allows a computer to run programs on encrypted data. Learn how homomorphic encryption works through interactive examples, build a homomorphically encrypted CRDT and see whether it has promise for local-first software.
Isomorphic Web Components
The lack of server-side rendering in web components has become a sort of folk belief that oft goes unquestioned. I am happy to report that the fears are unfounded.
Drinking from the Bluesky Firehose
I recently built a Bluesky bot. To build it, I had to dig into the Bluesky firehose. Here's what I learned.
What's a Single-Page App?
The web development community talks a lot about single-page apps, but are we all on a single page? Here's my ontology of web app architectures, organized by rendering and navigation.
My Modern CSS Reset
A CSS reset I've been using for new projects.
Building a Single-Page App with htmx
People talk about htmx as though it's saving the web from single-page apps. Well, I guess I missed the memo, because I used htmx to build a single-page app.
A Local-First Case Study
How I built a local-first app for planning trips, and what I learned about the current state of the local-first ecosystem along the way.
The Web Component Success Story
Web components won't take web development by storm, or show us the One True Way to build websites. What they will do is let us collectively build a rich ecosystem of dynamic components that work with any web stack.