Local-First Means Three Different Things

Author here. I've been designing a local-first data layer for most of this year, and I kept having the same conversation. I'd say "local-first" and people would hear ownership, or offline, or speed, depending on where they first ran into the word. So I wrote down where the three meanings come from and why they split. There are five demos in there too, one for each idea. Playing with them as you read is half the fun.