The gang and I are very lucky to live in a San Francisco neighborhood where we have markets, a family owned pharmacy, and family-owned restaurants, coffee shops, and delis all about a ten block walk from the house. Here’s the haul from our Farmers Market that we walk to along with our local butcher shop and dim sum bakery a few weeks ago. Consequently when I saw a mention of local-first software ,[ via ] I was intrigued. (As a side note, the presenter, Maggie Appleton, at one point in the not to distant past , worked with Elicit, a research paper summarizing AI startup with an office in Oakland, so kind of surprisingly local, but I digress.) It turns out that local-first development advocates for keeping the data for an app offline, i.e. keeping the data with the person who created or is using that data by default. But, what happens to collaboration? Well, the local, offline data is synched to the cloud when a connection is available allowing for collaboration while also...