Excellent work here! Goblins is ready for local-first. Kinda makes me wonder if the work of the Beehive team at Ink and Switch is a bit redundant.

Local-first technologies face unique UX challenges. Let’s explore and discuss what’s needed to address them!

Whether your app is local-first or more traditional, collaborative text editing is a tricky problem that requires advanced algorithms. Or does it? In this talk, I will describe a simple approach to collaborative text editing based on intuitive “insert after” operations. By using these operations in a general-purpose collaborative architecture (server reconciliation), you can implement text editing without CRDTs or OT. I will also discuss nuanced conflict resolution and decentralized variants.

Text version: https://mattweidner.com/2025/05/21/text-without-crdts.html

via: https://www.localfirst.fm/14