#2 – Aaron Boodman: From Google Gears to Replicache & Reflect.net

In this episode we talk about Aaron's history in local-first, which goes back to 2008 with the release of Google Gears – the first time sqlite was added to the browser - and his perspective on where we're at now and why local-first is finally happening. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 04:35 From Google Gears to Chrome 14:00 Challenges of the Permissionless Web 17:53 Web storage 20:48 Roci Corp, Replicache and Reflect 23:06 Tabs are challenging 44:18 Replicache and local-first Mentioned in podcast: Aaron: http://x.com/aboodman + https://aaronboodman.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gears_(...) https://rocicorp.dev https://replicache.dev https://reflect.net Links: Website: https://localfirst.fm X/Twitter: https://x.com/localfirstfm Thank you to https://expo.dev/ and https://crabnebula.dev/ for supporting the podcast.