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Writing on Building an Ambient, Lighter‑than‑Air Future for Technology

Essays and field notes on local-first software, peer-to-peer networks, cryptography, automation and AI, for people who would rather hold their own keys.

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    Notes from the workshop

    Shorter pieces on what is being built and tried will gather here.

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    Experiments in local-first software, open networks and automation will be listed here.

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I'm Oofytronic. I write and build at the frontier of distributed, decentralized and local-first technology, on the conviction that tools should serve the people who own them.

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