Local-first software

The 2019 essay that names the thing. Seven ideals, and the useful part is that they are stated as properties you can check rather than as a philosophy you can agree with.

Read it next to this site and grade it yourself: fast, multi-device, offline, collaborative, long-lived, private, and yours. This demo does well on some and is honest about the others — the guestbook page has the longer argument about which.