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Tinkerer on a mission to shift control from servers to users
@cloudhead.io relatedly www.roc-lang.org does have a very interesting memory management model although reading radiant.computer/log/002-inte... I suspect it may not be giving enough control
The Roc Programming Language
A fast, friendly, functional language.
www.roc-lang.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
How is memory managed in Radiance ?
November 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
syntax and language primitives as content addressed data like unison would be amazing

Even better if syntax is just data so you can use any desired notation like isomorf did
November 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Cloud was appealing when it was the only way to collaborate with others but when collaborating with an agent cloud seems like like an inconvenient ceremony. I don't want to go to place to collaborate with a machine, I want it meet me where I am to collaborate with me.
October 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Personally I have being wishing not just local issue tracking system for collaborating with agents, but also a local pull request system so I have a better interface for managing work agents do. Broadly yet a project management system as a pace to manage tools/resources allocated for ongoing tasks
October 15, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Interesting to observe that #local-first has a resonance with LLMs aided workflows. Need for sophisticated undo is definitely a big factor. Increasingly I'm suspecting that lack of control in feudal web creates a friction that is easier to overcome on local device under your control
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
inkandswitch.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Seems like 1:n vs 1:1 relation. If many people are interested in the interview with someone that someone probably won't have time to do 1:1 with each one of them
October 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
In all fairness I should also mention that github.com/git-bug/git-... project both and has similar properties
GitHub - git-bug/git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in git
Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in git - git-bug/git-bug
github.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Current paradigm: predict access patterns, optimize for them. LLMs enable the opposite: open-ended exploration without knowing what questions will be asked. This fundamental incompatibility creates conditions favoring shift from service-oriented to user-oriented model
gozala.io/dialog/parad...
Paradigm Shift
gozala.io
September 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
isomorf.io was an interesting language (which I think is dead now) where syntax was just projection of AST and you could choose between different notations.

In rust you can go pretty wild with macros
isomorƒ
a visual programming environment for cloud services
isomorf.io
September 21, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Dialog aspires to inspire exploration, so that it's fun to play with your data. Nothing flashy to share there yet, but even in these early days we are starting explore
bsky.app/profile/cdat...
cdata.earth cdata @cdata.earth · Jul 30
Since this demo was recorded, the most flashy thing we've created is a TUI inspector for Dialog databases.
September 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Dialog synthesizing decades of computer science research

- Semantic data model (from Datomic)
- Probabilistic Search Trees
- Datalog
- Commodity Blob Stores (S3/IPFS)
- Web Assembly
September 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
It is also an embeddable database, but instead of rigid schemas you define concepts and query for facts from which those can be derived. Concepts can be remapped, adapted via datalog rules making it possible to facilitate cross-tool without their coordination
September 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Dialog is designed around local-first principals. It is a tool like git, but for your semantic (facts, concepts) and episodic (events, observations) memory. It's goes from local to global using git like remotes represented by commodity blob store (like S3,R2,IPFS)
Semantic memory - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
We have demoed dialog's ability to perform partial query-driven replication at #local-first conf in the hallway track

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cdata.earth cdata @cdata.earth · Jun 11
I've been collaborating on Dialog: a new kind of database that I plan to make use of in #Familiar. At Local-First Conference I gave a hallway track demo of how users of the database may query over partial replicas (even empty replicas). Here is a screen cast of the demo: youtu.be/0a_Nb2CAoJc?...
Dialog DB "Serverless" Replication Demo
YouTube video by Chris Joel
youtu.be
September 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM