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Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole

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Re: Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole

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Post by dewey »

ivape wrote: post #9
dewey wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s a developer writing about a tool they like. If you’d call word of mouth an “ad” the I guess it’s one.

Why do you think marketing is not sophisticated? Here I’ll offer my services. I’ll pretend to do a technical deep dive of your app for X amount. No one will know, I’ll just act super interested. When the fuck did anyone ever go “omg this web app so impressive”, never, ever, never, ever.

It’s a choice to always see the worst in everything.

Many blog post submissions here are someone diving into something they like, hardware, software, tool etc. and it’s just because people like to share.

Re: Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole

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Post by jhy »

dewey wrote: post #6
ivape wrote: post #2

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It’s a developer writing about a tool they like. If you’d call word of mouth an “ad” the I guess it’s one.

Well, perhaps it's an AI writing about a tool...

> No API routes. No request/response cycles. No DTOs. Just… objects that magically sync. It kind of feels like cheating.

Re: Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole

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Post by theglenn88_ »

ivape wrote: post #9
dewey wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s a developer writing about a tool they like. If you’d call word of mouth an “ad” the I guess it’s one.

Why do you think marketing is not sophisticated? Here I’ll offer my services. I’ll pretend to do a technical deep dive of your app for X amount. No one will know, I’ll just act super interested. When the fuck did anyone ever go “omg this web app so impressive”, never, ever, never, ever.

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Re: Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole

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Post by Gravityloss »

jcusch wrote: post #8
Gravityloss wrote: post #5

Some problem on the site. Too much traffic? Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to bytemash.net. PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR Error code: PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR

It looks like I was missing a www subdomain CNAME for the underlying github pages site. I think it's fixed now.

I still see the same error

Re: Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole

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Post by petralithic »

ElectricSQL and TanStack DB are great, but I wonder why they focus so much on local first for the web over other platforms, as in, I see mobile being the primary local first use case since you may not always have internet. In contrast, typically if you're using a web browser to any capacity, you'll have internet.

Also the former technologies are local first in theory but without conflict resolution they can break down easily. This has been from my experience making mobile apps that need to be local first, which led me to using CRDTs for that use case.

Re: Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole

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Post by petralithic »

mbaranturkmen wrote: post #15

How is this approach better than using react-query to persist storage which periodically sync the local storage and the server storage? Perhaps I am missing something.

That approach is precisely what the new TanStack DB does, which if you don't know already has the same creator as React Query. The former extends the latter's principles to syncing, via ElectricSQL, both organizations have a partnership with each other.

Re: Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole

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Post by incorrecthorse »

> For the uninitiated, Linear is a project management tool that feels impossibly fast. Click an issue, it opens instantly. Update a status and watch in a second browser, it updates almost as fast as the source. No loading states, no page refreshes - just instant, interactions.

How garbage the web has become for a low-latency click action being qualified as "impossibly fast". This is ridiculous.

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