Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers

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When we talk about “local-first,” we’re primarily talking about where data lives and how it syncs to our devices.
So in the old school world, before the cloud, our data and our software lived on a single machine and we had no way to collaborate. Except by throwing LAN parties.
We then moved to the cloud era where all the programs and all the data live in the cloud and stream to our devices via the internet.
And now, everyone here is trying to make a new, beautiful local-first future happen, where the software and the data all live on our local machines and just use the cloud to sync between them whenever we get internet access. (View Highlight)
How could an American getting paid six figures in Mountain View understand how to identify problems and design solutions for a homemaker in Tokyo, a street seller in Turkey, or a doctor in Tunisia? (View Highlight)
"People need not only to obtain things; they need above all the freedom to make things among which they can live, to give shape to them according to their own tastes, and to put them to use in caring for and about others." (View Highlight)