The past, present, and future of local-first - Martin Kleppmann (Local-First Conf)

Speaker: Martin Kleppmann, University of Cambridge, Inc & Switch
We have come a long way since my colleagues and I published the local-first essay five years ago. In this talk I'll review where the local-first idea came from, where we are now, and what I hope the local-first community can work towards in the future.
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[@ProSpear]

Would like to propose that we do already have a giant sub-industry within tech that provides charges based on the value it provides rather than the threat to delete data, that we could port over business models from - gaming.
Be it f2p, microtransactions, or “battlepass” type models, i think there’s a lot we may be able to learn and apply over to traditional b2b / b2c software as well

[@RobWalpole]

Very interesting talk. The "hypothetical future sync service" sounds a lot like a Jakarta Messaging to me. JMS already offers a standardised means of asynchronous communication whereby changes made on one device could be published to the service and picked up by another device which is subscribed to the same service.

[@holykoolala]

Like a Git Push or Email?

[@robwalpole2353]

@@holykoolala Neither really. JMS uses the PubSub pattern: ruclips.net/video/wb4qcdb0XWw/видео.html

[@alexanderknyazev7712]

Very interesting.
But when I am thinking of it I only can imagine some apps where part of functionality is local first. I can't imagine case where I don't need some centralized data and logic at all.

[@Totomenu]

As I understand it, this is a good usecase for work that involve a couple of people, like in a company (Notion, Excel, Google Docs). Not your social media or youtube stuff.

[@holykoolala]

Data Syncing is a big topic! Let's talk about it! Anyone here have anything to say on the subject?

[@holykoolala]

JSON? Hmm... How about we standardize on PLY!

[@kwoncharles]

Good