Pleased to announce that the application for the first Summer School on Distributed and Replicated Environments (DARE 2023) to be held at VUB on 11 - 15 September is open until 15 May 2023. See all details at tinyurl.com/DARE2023

One of the things I'm most excited for is partnering with the LibSQL folks to create a custom syntax for defining tables which are backed by CRDTs! LibSQL is truly getting SQLite ready for the coming decades -- github.com/libsql/libsql vlcn.io/cr-sqlite/cust…

There are now over 150 published papers about CRDTs (let me know if any are missing). Feels like it’s becoming a real field of research! crdt.tech/papers.html

I’m co-organising a summer school on distributed systems for master’s and PhD students, along with Carlos Baquero, Annette Bieniusa, Carla Ferreira, and Elisa Gonzalez Boix. It will be in Brussels in September. Great opportunity to work with some leading researchers! vub.be/dare-2023

📝 Really enjoyed the 'local-first' talk from Peter van Hardenberg and the perspective shift from the binary offline/online to a spectrum of latency: offline is just online but with extreme latency. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/offline-i…

Hi Eurostar, is it ok to bring this type of pram (with bassinet) onto your trains? The frame is foldable but the bassinet is not. Not sure whether the bassinet will fit in the overhead compartment, and the website help.eurostar.com/faq/be-en/ques… is not clear on what counts as “folding”

Program of the PaPoC workshop looks great this year. Sad that I can't be there this time papoc-workshop.github.io/2023/program.h…

New paper! 📄✨ It turns out that all text collaboration algorithms have an interleaving problem, and we fixed it for the first time. Very proud of this work with Matthew Weidner and Seph arxiv.org/abs/2305.00583

This clever crow figured out how to pull up the bin bag and hold it with its claws so that it can reach the food inside. Seen today in Munich

One week remaining to register for our summer school if you're interested! More details now available on the website soft.vub.ac.be/dare23/

Terrific work by Molly White web3 is going just great

I'll be speaking at Strange Loop Conf about our recent research on collaborative text editing. Sad that this will be the final Strange Loop! thestrangeloop.com/2023/new-algor…

We are planning two events for the local-first community: • September 23 in St. Louis, MO, USA (after Strange Loop) • October 24 in Cascais, Portugal (at SPLASH) 2023.splashcon.org/home/plf-2023 Submissions for Cascais are open; for St. Louis, please let me know if you want to attend!

Working on Local-First software, research, or libraries? Curious about user agency, CRDTs, and emerging UX and DX patterns? Martin Kleppmann and I are hosting a Local-First Unconference Sept 23 in St. Louis (i.e. the day after Strange Loop). See the post below for more 👀🎟️✨

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