Alex Dobrenko

I know everyone here knows what local-first is about, but here's a quick recap for people watching who might not.

When we talk about “local-first,” we’re primarily talking about where data lives and how it syncs to our devices.

So in the old school world, before the cloud, our data and our software lived on a single machine and we had no way to... See more

Doppelgänger is window into our collective selves and the machines we’ve built that so easily and efficiently sort us into groups of “us” and “them.” Typically, these kinds of books play a nifty trick on the reader. The subjects, the people we call them , are easily rendered as others, leaving the reader feeling terrified, superior, smug—or all... See more

It is often in the cradle of friendship — a word not to be used carelessly — that our creative energies are strengthened and renewed.

My earlier attempts always failed when the amount of energy a system took to maintain outweighed its usefulness. Energy does not equal effort. I spent a ton of effort into customizing Tana to work exactly the way I want it to work, but I enjoy it, so it takes much less energy, and I built it up over time. Slowly adding layer after layer.

My core... See more