Discover how local-first transforms web apps, boosts offline resilience, and why instant user feedback is becoming the new normal.

I’ve been part of the internet startup scene for a while. There are so many different camps: the bootstrappers, the VC-backed tech-bros, the crypto “investor...

Today we are releasing Babel 8. It's been 8 years since we released Babel 7. And that's not without reason.

My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...

A vision for the "small web", small software, and small architectures.

In this essay, Carson Gross argues that as AI makes code cheap to produce, understanding code becomes the expensive and scarce resource. He warns of the complexity that LLM code can generate and propo...

In my predictions for 2030 I wrote that tech writers would be using specialized LLMs, running locally on powerful hardware. I see hints of this move to “local first” among engineering pundits, but we’...

Before 1840, noon in Bristol happened about ten minutes after noon in London, and nobody much cared. The railway needed a common minute or it couldn't run - and that common minute is now a common nano...