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title="Approaching Local-First Software"
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date="2023-11-15T12:00:00-08:00"
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#### Learn how local-first software can be simple (and better) for users

Allen sits with Peter van Hardenberg to dig into the work of the Ink and Switch research laboratory.
Their discussion ultimately leads to local-first software, some of the difficulties with creating it,
and concluding with the concepts behind CRDT and AutoMerge: the Ink and Switch library for creating CRDT application state.
