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Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration

Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and how to construct a CRDT for rich text.

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Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models

Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.

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Upwelling: Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers

Upwelling: Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers.

Collaborative writing tools don’t work well for writers or editors. With Upwelling, we demonstrate a design that gives writers privacy while still offering editors transparency into how a document is...

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Ink & Switch's next essay, Peritext, a rich-text CRDT, arrives tomorrow.

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Embark: Dynamic documents for making plans.

Embark: Dynamic documents for making plans

Gradually enriching a text outline with travel planning tools

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Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software.

Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software

Gradually enriching text documents into interactive applications

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Inkbase: Programmable Ink

What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?

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From the Automerge team: Introducing Automerge-Repo, a "batteries-included" toolkit for building local-first applications.

Automerge-Repo: A "batteries-included" toolkit for building local-first applications | Automerge...

Today we are announcing our new library, automerge-repo, which makes it vastly easier to build local-first applications with Automerge. Take a look at our quickstart guide or read on for some...

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Backchannel: A relationship-based digital identity system

In this article, we propose an alternative approach to digital identity that replaces user profiles with trusted digital relationships.

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Our latest research project: Muse explores how to bring the aesthetic of an artist's studio—personal, informal, flexible, multi-media, malleable—to a digital tool.

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Calling Engineers and Designers for a new Ink & Switch project: We're exploring tablet-based programming. Join us this fall and work with @szymon_k .

Calling Engineers and Designers for a new Ink & Switch project | Notion

This project is now fully staffed — thanks for your interest but we are not currently looking for additional project members. The posting is retained for reference.

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Untangle: Solving problems with fuzzy constraints

How to sketch, and satisfy, logic problems

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A new Ink & Switch piece lands tomorrow. Project Backchannel: A relationship-based digital identity system.

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Ink & Switch is recruiting developers for three months to work on an upcoming local-first / automerge project. We're looking for a Swift developer and someone with experience in Rust/WASM to help us bring Automerge to new platforms.

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It's wonderful to welcome @todepond to Ink & Switch as a researcher-in-residence. Looking forward to sharing lots of ideas and inspiration.

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i'm joining @inkandswitch as a researcher-in-residence here's my full announcement post

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We've been working quietly for a while, but we've got a new essay coming soon. Watch this space.

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A new Ink & Switch essay will arrive tomorrow. Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models

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Often, people ask how they can follow along with our work at Ink & Switch. We're beginning a newsletter to share more timely information than our essays. First issue to follow in a few days:

Ink & Switch Dispatch

Occasional stories from Ink & Switch about our work, publications, talks, and the people at the lab. Ink & Switch is an independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought. Learn more...

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Readers interested in following our work independently of any particular social network can subscribe via RSS at this URL:

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The whole Ink & Switch crew will be at Strangeloop this month, with @szymon_k presenting a new piece on our ongoing Programmable Ink research track.

Programmable Ink - Strange Loop

Strange Loop is a conference for software developers covering programming langs, databases, distributed systems, security, machine learning, creativity, and more!

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Touchscreen interface with no toolbars, no modes, and fingers+stylus used simultaneously.

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PDF excerpts. Organized like any other document, with wormhole links back to their source.

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You can hear all about our work on "programmable ink" at @Strangeloop_STL this year when @szymon_k comes to share the results of a few years of very strange experiments.

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JOB POST: Ink & Switch is looking to contract a UX designer for an upcoming project examining collaboration workflows in professional writing.

Wanted: UX designer for collaborative writing research | Notion

This position is now filled. We will preserve the posting here for reference but are not currently seeking candidates. If you’d like to say hello anyway, feel free! We always have more projects...

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This is arguably the most valuable collaboration technology we have developed.

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@steveruizok at @inkandswitch we have this concept of “start of core [hours]” which is 9:00 SF, and we say “let’s meet at soc+2” - so I just have to remember that soc is 18:00 my time and no time zones have to be involved

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We encourage anyone with an interest in databases to join HYTRADBOI, not least because regular lab collaborators @martinkl and @geoffreylitt will be there speaking.

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"Have you tried rubbing a database on it?" A day of 10 minute talks on strange and unusual uses of databases and other data-centric ideas.

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At Strangeloop this year @okdistribute and @helveticade will be presenting some of the original research we've been doing into digital trust & identity at @inkandswitch .

Prevent phishing and impersonation with trust loops - Strange Loop

Strange Loop is a conference for software developers covering programming langs, databases, distributed systems, security, machine learning, creativity, and more!

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Documents organized spatially in a fluid zooming interface.

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Today we published a new version of our website, which finally brings the beautiful design work of @seaofclouds to all our essays.

Ink & Switch

Industrial research lab working on digital tools for creativity and productivity

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Inkbase, an exploration of Programmable Ink was presented by @szymon_k at @liveprog2021 . You can now watch that video (and others) here:

Workshop on Live Programming (LIVE)

The Tenth Workshop on Live Programming (LIVE 2024) will take place in Los Angeles in conjunction with SPLASH 2024. LIVE invites submissions of ideas for improving the immediacy, usability, and...

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"We yearn to sketch in a dynamic medium." -- @szymon_k Hear about our ongoing research into programmable ink in his @Strangeloop_STL talk here.

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"Programmable Ink" by Szymon Kaliski @szymon_k from Strange Loop 2022

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Nice post on local-first software from @Brandur .

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This work will also be presented by @okdistribute at @Strangeloop_STL next week:

Prevent phishing and impersonation with trust loops - Strange Loop

Strange Loop is a conference for software developers covering programming langs, databases, distributed systems, security, machine learning, creativity, and more!

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Our team already has folk who know CRDTs inside and out. What we're looking for are domain experts who can help us make sure we build ergonomic Swift and Python support and finesse the details of our Rust implementation across platforms.

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Programmable ink with James Lindenbaum and Szymon Kaliski // Metamuse podcast episode 71

What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets? James and Szymon are researching this question at Ink & Switch. They sit down with Adam to talk about the unlikely...

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JOB: Swift Engineer for stylus-based research project.

Swift Engineer for stylus-based research project | Notion

This project is now fully staffed — thanks for your interest but we are not currently looking for additional project members. The posting is retained for reference.

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The iPad as a fast, precise tool for creativity

Tablets have potential, but only if app developers break free of the mobile design orthodoxy.

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This is what we call an "industrialization project", so you'll be working with our team on improving Automerge support in real-world production contexts. This is a great opportunity to help bring local-first software out of the lab.

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This also marks the first time that our PushPin essay on one approach to building local-first software is available in HTML form:

Pushpin: Towards Production-Quality Peer-to-Peer Collaboration

Taking peer-to-peer beyond research prototypes, and working towards commercial-grade P2P collaboration software.

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Pixelpusher: Real-time peer-to-peer collaboration with React

We have been conditioned to accept certain truths in software development. We accept that our software won’t work in an airplane, on the…

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@geoffreylitt @okdistribute @scottjenson @bumble_blue_ @blaine @martinkl Also @daiyitastic who wasn't an author of the paper but who wrote large amounts of both the prototype and the software that delivers the final essay.

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Dispatch 004: universal version control & rich text in automerge.

Universal version control and rich text on Automerge

In this dispatch we're sharing some updates about our ongoing research on universal version control.

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This is our first spinout of industrial research as a commercial product. More are in the works.

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Now it's graduating from the lab to become a product. Follow that part of the team here: @MuseAppHQ

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Log Lounge — Decentralized Web Summit 2018 — Day 2

ALL TIMES PDT (UTC−07:00)9:00am – 9:30amTalk: Internet Infrastructure Challenges with Decentralized WebMarco Rodrigues9:30am – 10:30amTalk: Better Algorithms...

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Look familiar? This is the line of research we've been pursuing with Dossier, Capstone, and an earlier prototype also named Muse.

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Decentralized, offline-first, realtime collaboration with Automerge

An example scenario by Nick Fury of the Avengers shows how CRDTs can make a Trello clone that offers both realtime collaboration and offline capability.https...

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Automerge: Making servers optional for real-time collaboration -...

Once upon a time, we used software that ran on our own computers, that worked offline, and that stored its data in files on the local disk. Then we decided t...

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Thanks to @daiyitastic for running this project. We hope you enjoy the result.

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We welcome your questions and feedback here or by email: hello @inkandswitch .com

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A brief history of industrial research

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GitHub - inkandswitch/pushpin: A collaborative corkboard app

A collaborative corkboard app. Contribute to inkandswitch/pushpin development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Building on our recent work on End User Programming, @szymon_k and @wolkenmachine are exploring a new kind of tool for thought on iPad. We're looking to add a skilled Swift developer to the team.

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Interactive Whiteboard Rough Notes

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GitHub - inkandswitch/livebook: IPython notebook-compatible live coding experiment

IPython notebook-compatible live coding experiment - inkandswitch/livebook

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@ratkins Yes, successful independent software vendors these days often have diverisified app portfolios and revenue sources. Examples such as Readdle (), Panic (), and Ulysses ()

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@szymon_k @wolkenmachine This is a brief and intense 10 week engagement, scheduled to begin in late March.

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GitHub - automerge/trellis: Trello clone / sample app for Automerge persistence library

Trello clone / sample app for Automerge persistence library - automerge/trellis

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@emilesnyder @szymon_k @liveprog2021 We haven't published our piece on Inkbase yet.

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@ratkins So the @inkandswitch funding model is still a work in progress, but taking an equity stake in commercial spinouts is one piece of the puzzle.

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