Local-first software: pragmatism vs idealism
Reflections on Declarative Configuration
Advantages and pitfalls of Infrastructure as Code, and the distinction between IaC and Declarative Configuration.
Local-First Software: Origins And Evolution
Developer interest in local-first software is continuing to grow rapidly in 2024. At the same time, it’s also apparent that developers currently have different views on what they consider to be ‘local-first software’, ranging from narrower to broader definitions. This prompted us to take a closer look at the origins and evolution of local-first.
Your whole development environment, declared.
Define packages, languages, services, tasks, secrets, and tooling once. Give every developer and CI the same fast, reproducible environment.
Architectural mismatch: why reuse is so hard
Why isn't there more progress toward building systems from existing parts? One answer is that the assumptions of the parts about their intended environment are implicit and either don't match the actual environment or conflict with those of other parts. The authors explore these problems in the context of their own experience with a compositional approach.<>
Local Env as Code: Is it possible yet
Guest post by Jan Van Bruggen, Developer Relations Lead at itopia In the past decade, we’ve seen the rise, standardization and meme-ification of “as code”: Infrastructure as Code, Monitoring as Code…
Convivial design heuristics for software systems
The theme of this workshop is the proliferation of ideas about calling into question the cultural roots of our current programming languages, and the search for alternative paradigms with other cultural bases.
Local-First Software Unconference · Luma
On Sat September 23, 2023, immediately following the Strange Loop conference, we are holding a community event for everybody interested in local-first software…
Local-first Software
Exploring software architecture that returns data to users and enables collaboration in every tool.
I love this idea of "houseplant programming" and have long thought gardening was a great metaphor for a lot of what I do as a software developer. Nice to see Miren setting up a cozy home for plants in the garden <3 miren.dev/blog/garden-server
Everybody Could Use a Garden Server - Miren
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