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Beehive lab notebook: Local-first access control (inkandswitch.com)
57 points by meiraleal 65 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments



Any word on when/if these folks will release software for folks to actually try out/use?

In particular,

https://www.inkandswitch.com/crosscut/

has come up multiple times here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30855556

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30845034

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39249631

and I'd love to try it out, but AFAICT there aren't any repositories/releases available.


Automerge is available for developers.

Potluck exists: https://www.inkandswitch.com/potluck/demo/

Patchwork exists: https://patchwork.inkandswitch.com/

(source code here: https://github.com/inkandswitch/tiny-essay-editor/tree/patch...)

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'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.


They are doing a show & tell in a few days: https://discord.gg/vaHd6rtE?event=1283643773724917832


Read this article twice and can't understand what problem it is trying to solve and it'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?


Maybe you're missing some other context.

Here's an article about local-first software: https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/

Here's an article about why you might want this: https://medium.com/all-the-things/a-web-application-with-no-...

Here's another article about a previous attempt at solving this problem: https://herbcaudill.com/words/20240602-local-first-auth

and here's the associated readme for how that turned out: https://github.com/local-first-web/auth?tab=readme-ov-file#r...


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


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.


The diagrams in the first half of the article are made with tldraw https://www.tldraw.com/

The lower half look like the output from Mermaid https://mermaid.js.org/




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