i'm joining Ink & Switch as a researcher-in-residence here's my full announcement post todepond.com/wikiblogarden/…

It's wonderful to welcome @todepond to Ink & Switch as a researcher-in-residence. Looking forward to sharing lots of ideas and inspiration.

At long last, I present to you: the OLLOS essay. It's got everything: how it works & how I used it, design and concept iterations, future work for it and the OS, and what I learned about personal interfaces. Enjoy: alexanderobenauer.com/ollos/

Just gave a talk about Tiny Essay Editor, a collaborative markdown editor we're using at Ink & Switch based on Automerge! Quick summary: We wanted a nice local-first editor for writing our research essays, so we built one... 1/

Our first speaker, Martin Kleppmann Martin Kleppmann, is the co-author of the local-first Ink & Switch paper that started it all. We are honored to have him address our community. #LocalFirst #LoFi

Announcing Local-First Conf 2024 The first in-person local-first conference for software builders. 📅 30th May 2024 🌍 Berlin, Germany Get your ticket today. Only 150 available. 👇

Come hang out with the Automerge crew and we'll make some local-first software together! All you need to know is some web development with React (or at least fake your way from there). We'll help with the rest.

We shipped rich text & prosemirror support for Automerge! It was HARD and took many combined brains (from Geoffrey Litt and Nintendo .DS_Store on Peritext to Martin Kleppmann, Orion and Alex Good figuring out blocks) but the result is something we're proud of: automerge.org/blog/2024/04/0…

"Tree Diff(iculties)" Awesome talk from Alex Good of Ink & Switch on how they implemented rich text for Automerge and moved to blocks from a tree structure.

I'm starting a new group at Brown w/ Shriram Krishnamurthi (primary: Bluesky) and Kathi Fisler called the Cognitive Engineering Lab. We build tools to make you smarter, grounded in cognitive science and programming language theory. And we're hiring PhD students! cel.cs.brown.edu

What if we had a shared commenting system across all apps? This is what we prototyped on the Patchwork project:

Excited to be working on a new project this summer at Ink & Switch together with Josh Horowitz and Paul Sonnentag (he/him)! Here's a quick summary of what we're up to: # Jacquard: version control + provenance for empirical research How do researchers write papers that contain data analysis

Episode #13 is out. Maggie Appleton (Maggie Appleton) on the idea of barefoot developers and how AI complements local-first in making end-user programming a reality.

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps inkandswitch.com/essay/malleabl…

So excited to share that I'm a Researcher-in-Residence Ink & Switch! I'll be hanging out with the amazing people there in my free time - can't wait to share what I've been working on 🥳🚀