🔒 Building Continuum — Chap. 5 — The Irony of Local-First
🔒 Building Continuum — Chap. 5 — The Irony of Local-First
Local-first software is often framed as regressive or anti-progress. Yet personal computing began as fully local, possession-based, and independent of centralized authentication. This chapter explores the tension between innovation and remembering — and why returning to local-first architecture is not nostalgia, but structural correction.
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