Local First
Posts tagged “Local First”.
- The Data Was Already in the Browser
WireData turns JSON responses and page tables into local SQL datasets, but the real design problem was preserving consent, bytes, and lineage.
- Why I Self-Host
Privacy, cost, and resilience matter, but the honest reason I self-host is enjoying the work—even when it means drivers and firewall lockouts.
- They Took the Jack
The headphone jack was universal and zero-configuration, yet disappeared because most people did not miss it—the cost of designing for the average.
- Everything With a Battery Cooks in a Parked Car
Heat, cold, and a rule against using the starter battery eliminated most parking-mode recorders and led to a battery-less 4G build.
- The Missing Middle in Data Tooling
Between enterprise platforms and one-off query tools lies a missing class of focused utilities for reconciliation, schema drift, and file comparison.
- I Have Four Edit Histories for the Same Photo
Non-destructive photo editors preserve the original but scatter edit history across proprietary catalogs whose long-term readability is not guaranteed.