Beehive lab notebook: Local-first access control

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

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.

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/