Still trying to figure out how to talk about our Patchwork project: it's a local-first malleable software system that builds on our past work. It's shadertoy and a markdown editor but it's also a minecraft clone and an ohmjs programming language workbench. It's also none of those things, or more?
Feb 27, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Steven Vandevelde (@tokono.ma)
Looks like what I've been building is quite similar to what the foundation of Patchwork-26 is. Lots of "tiny apps" (atomization of software, loosely coupled) + just the web. Local-first and where everything revolves around the content (data-first, can use preferred UI/view). Happy to see this! 🎉
patchwork-system/core at main · inkandswitch/patchwork-system
Patchwork system. Contribute to inkandswitch/patchwork-system development by creating an account on GitHub.
Introducing Patchwork-26
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