Local-first and freeform software with James Long Cyberdeck Users Weekly

In classic podcasting style, I managed to frontload this episode with highly technical questions up front and then we slowly morphed the conversation into a more conceptual what-is-the-future-of-computers sort of thing.

James is a really wonderful guy from what I've learned over the decade or so I've been following him on Twitter and you should def check out Actual if you're in the market for budgeting software.

SHOW NOTES
James Long

Prettier

Actual Budget

Stripe

Mozilla XUL

React

Reason

rustfmt

Silicon Valley season three, episode six

The Local-first software manifesto

CRDT

Clarity Money ewwww

Quantified Self

Roam


"I want Roam to be not just a tool for thought, but a tool for computation" @jlongster


Using CRDTs in the wild

Jupyter

Observable

Literate programming

Light Table

A Visual History of Eve: 2014 - 2018

Microsoft Fluid Framework

Project Xanadu

If you have 100 hours to read a million words, check out this Wired piece on Xanadu

SHOUTOUT Ryan Florence



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