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James Pearce
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James Pearce
@jamespearce
Hacker, sailor, immigrant. TinyBase and other local-first & sync goodies.
Previously: Eng Director at Meta, data infra, dev tools, open source, & platforms.
- If you’re looking for inspiration today, remember that everyone had to start somewhere.
- Replying to @petergyangDoing extra curricular stuff purely because you love it is a strong signal of an awesome human. But as usual… show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome. Hence there’s a race to the bottom of contrived behaviors in order to check boxes.
- Announcing TinyBase v1.0.0! 🎉 TinyBase is a JavaScript library for structured state and tabular data, and was a fun part-time project for me to get back into open source. tinybase.org & @tinybasejs
- I started a thing! 🎉 localfirstweb.dev It's definitely not complete, so please suggest additions and improvements as PRs 🙏 Hoping it becomes a useful starting point for local-first web developers.
- Remember Y2K? Wait for 9KPX. That's the day when screens get wider than 9999px and everybody's <h1> text-indent logo styling reappears.
- What's stopping you from triaging your GitHub issues like this? In other news, local-first apps are so much fun to build.
00:00 - The next generation of big data infra is being driven by machine learning. I'm fascinated by this! And the free Data @ Scale conference is all about it: how are @awscloud, @databricks, @PinterestEng, @fb_engineering etc building for this new era? More at datascale2022.splashthat.com
- Just been playing with Expo and React Native, and wow it's good these days.
- Hacking with @reactjs, one easy trick helps my simple brain reason about components' state-of-truth:
- When I was an immigrant in Ireland, I awarded this guy’s fledgling web agency one of its first major projects.One of the great sorrows of my life has been watching my beautiful home country of Ireland be destroyed by it's own unfettered immigration policy. As of the end of last year there were 1.2M immigrants out of a total population of 5.38M.
- The local-first space right now? A sprawl of different startups, different database technologies, different topologies, different sync engines. 𝐼 find it confusing - and I'm in the middle of it 🤯 I hope that TinyBase helps though! Build your app & choose your vendor later...
- I think TinyBase v5 is going to be the easiest way to start building local-first apps. Period. But there’s one problem: it’s not finished or packaged well enough yet. I’m working so hard on it… and some days it’s pretty exhausting. But getting close. I think it’ll be worth it!
