#17 – Kyle Simpson: Local-first identity

The guest of this episode is Kyle Simpson, a prolific JavaScript engineer and author of the book You Don’t Know JS. Over the past years, Kyle has been researching user identity and encryption in a local-first context which we explore in depth in this episode. This conversation will dive into the story that led Kyle to local-first including what he calls Web 2.5 and Zero Servers.

Editor's Note: when Kyle speaks about SilentJS, is actually referring to QuiteJS (link below)

Mentioned in podcast

• Kyle Simpson: x.com/getifyX / me.getify.com
• Local-peer-to-peer
• Webauthn-local-client
• Local-data-lock
• Local-vault
• Storage
• Qr-data-sync
• Vella.ai
• Socket Supply
• You-Dont-Know-JS
• LoFi.so
• QuietJS
  
  

Links:

•  Website: localfirst.fm
• X/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfm
• YouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm

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