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( On "local-first") title
(Beyond the CRDT silver bullet) authortwo
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(show comparison table, page 9) author
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("In principle it is possible to collaborate without a repository service, e.g. by sending patch files by email, but the majority of Git users rely on GitHub." ) author
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(Solution: either GitHub+CRDTs or git send-email ) n
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( Conclusion) header
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(Why this is a "paper I love": it took offline-first and ran with it.) n
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(But a pinch of CRDT won't make the world local-first. ) n
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(The tricky part is the end of the sentence: "in spite of the Cloud".) n
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( References) header
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(1. "Local-First Software: You Own Your Data, in spite of the Cloud", by M. Kleppmann, A. Wiggins, P. Van Hardenberg and M. F. McGranaghan) n
(2. The Morning Paper article) n
(3. "A Note on Distributed Compiting", by J. Waldo, G. Wyant, A. Wollrath and S. Kendall) n
(4. these slides: euandre.org/slide/) n
(5. prose version of this presentation) n
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