Automerge is available for developers.Potluck exists: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inkandswitch.com&#x2F;potluck&#x2F;demo&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inkandswitch.com&#x2F;potluck&#x2F;demo&#x2F;</a>Patchwork exists: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patchwork.inkandswitch.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patchwork.inkandswitch.com&#x2F;</a>(source code here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;inkandswitch&#x2F;tiny-essay-editor&#x2F;tree&#x2F;patchwork">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;inkandswitch&#x2F;tiny-essay-editor&#x2F;tree&#x2F;patch...</a>)But they are primarily a _research lab_ exploring tools for scientists and journalists etc. The real product they create the essays, and with what they&#x27;ve learned you are now free to go and make the world a better place starting a few steps ahead. Kind of like Bret Victor.

Any word on when&#x2F;if these folks will release software for folks to actually try out&#x2F;use?In particular,<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inkandswitch.com&#x2F;crosscut&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inkandswitch.com&#x2F;crosscut&#x2F;</a>has come up multiple times here:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30855556">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30855556</a><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30845034">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30845034</a><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39249631">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39249631</a>and I&#x27;d love to try it out, but AFAICT there aren&#x27;t any repositories&#x2F;releases available.

Maybe you&#x27;re missing some other context.Here&#x27;s an article about local-first software: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inkandswitch.com&#x2F;local-first&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inkandswitch.com&#x2F;local-first&#x2F;</a>Here&#x27;s an article about why you might want this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;all-the-things&#x2F;a-web-application-with-no-web-server-61000a6aed8f" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;all-the-things&#x2F;a-web-application-with-no-...</a>Here&#x27;s another article about a previous attempt at solving this problem: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;herbcaudill.com&#x2F;words&#x2F;20240602-local-first-auth" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;herbcaudill.com&#x2F;words&#x2F;20240602-local-first-auth</a>and here&#x27;s the associated readme for how that turned out: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;local-first-web&#x2F;auth?tab=readme-ov-file#readme">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;local-first-web&#x2F;auth?tab=readme-ov-file#r...</a>

Local first doesn’t mean local only. There are times where your device will need to sync data from a remote location&#x2F;other peers. That data may be encrypted. This project is trying to solve for local access control in such situations.

Read this article twice and can&#x27;t understand what problem it is trying to solve and it&#x27;s use cases. Can someone please explain it better?Apparently it is a distributed file management system that is Local-first access control. What is the point if the data is on my machine then I have full access already so it already is local-first access?

The diagrams in the first half of the article are made with tldraw <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tldraw.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tldraw.com&#x2F;</a>The lower half look like the output from Mermaid <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mermaid.js.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mermaid.js.org&#x2F;</a>

I really like the diagramming style.The general research program seems very interesting, things like Embark have that special kind of simplicity that comes from long and deep thinking about a problem.

Beehive lab notebook: Local-first access control