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I been reading various papers on CRDTs to deepen my understanding of them. That's when I happened upon a paper that constructed Merkle-CRDTs from Merkle-DAGs [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.00107.pdf]. > Surprisingly, the internal merkle data structure of Git is like a vector clock. It establishes
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A major implication not often included in discussions of local-first software is how to deal with migrations. The degree of the problem depends largely on how you fence the boundaries of your system. If your local-first system allows any number of replicas to come in and out of the network
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SQL is the new QWERTY. It's a strong enough network effect that we'll have to keep living with it. I don't mind the declarative nature of SQL, but I do wish it was more composable and abstractable. While there is the WITH clause, it&
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In the course of building the demo todo list local-first app, I've found that different CRDT libraries have different assumptions about the data access pattern you're using. Automerge [https://github.com/automerge/automerge] and Yjs [https://github.com/yjs/yjs] prioritize text editing, but Automerge assumes
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This week the todo list is coming along. The app works like a regular todo list. There's no server, and yet it persists the data between reloads. I wanted to see how it would feel to have a database as the state management library. Instead of having an
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I'm making progress with the todo list. While I can only add tasks right now, it persists the data without a server and can sync between different open tabs (within the same browser). I've built my share of web apps before, yet I've never
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The couple of months have been full of changes. It was actually a good time to write down the process, but unfortunately, things changed so quickly that I didn't get a chance to process it all in writing. This is an outline from since the last time. A
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👉This is a conversation with ChatGPT to ask it to help me with a task that I wouldn't have otherwise invested the time to figure out how to do. This was before ChatGPT let you share your conversations.> What would I use to generate a histogram of
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I was surprised to learn that different stacks of software all do some type of computational analysis to better do its job. The CPU does it to figure out how to pipeline instructions. Compilers do it to feed CPUs better set of instructions. Front-end frameworks do it to figure out
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One major thing I did in the last two weeks was to take a step back and review the current landscape of real-time databases and syncing frameworks. In my last essay [https://interjectedfuture.com/state-management-library-front-ends-are-looking-for-is-a-database/] , I came to the conclusion that for app architectures that want to retain state on
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As an exercise to see what the developer experience might look like, I outlined what it might look like for a React-like single-page app. The app that's outlined below is a variation on the TodoMVC.
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For any endeavor, there are two ends you can work on: deep technical work and finding the market. This past week was mostly spent on the latter. One of my unfair advantages is access to Bookface, where founders detail problems they face. Searching for posts on "no-code" or