James Pearce
@jamespearce
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TinyBase and other local-first & sync goodies. Previously: Eng Director at Meta, data infra, dev tools, open source, & platforms. Now: hacker & sailor.
๐ https://scoutsailing.com
Joined December 2006
Unable to attend this week's awesome-looking @sync_conf, I've decided instead to offer a tribute in the only form I know how: a new open source project. ๐ I believe sync is a fundamental part of modern app development. Hopefully I can help make it easier. Please follow along!
๐ Introducing Synclets! ๐ We're excited to introduce Synclets, an open, storage-agnostic, sync engine development kit. Read more... ๐
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@jamespearce thank you so much for TinyBase, such a thoughtfully designed API. Seriously impressive that you shipped this solo!
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While interesting to stock pick tools and frameworks, I also wonder about big trends, like: 1) is sync and local-first going to be the future (or โand always will beโ)? 2) will AI just crush frontend engineering and humans retreat to work on backend and systems? 3) โฆ?
2026 Frontend Predictions: * Vite + Rolldown win over other bundlers * Oxlint/Oxfmt win over Biome * React alternatives will stay in the "I guess this is an interesting direction" stage * TanStack will grow faster than Remix/Next.js for serious apps
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Now would be a great time to step as inspirational leaders (which we don't have enough of) instead of as childish trolls (of which we already have plenty).
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My new favorite weather prediction model is AIFS. The European weather forecasters at ECMWF are crushing it. (And they're not being shut down, which probably helps).
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This migration went better than I could have expected. Everything moved over easily (even my customized reporting needs). It's way faster and more parallel, and I have no need for ESM & WASM hackery to make things like pglite work. Great work @vitest_dev!
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PoC went well... able to hook into the meta API to count assertions, and coverage seems to work as expected. Checking pglite works next and then let's go!
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I think I've hit a dead-end with Jest 30 and testing pglite. Should I try Vitest?
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๐ TinyBase v6.7 - the one with OPFS! Yep, we finally added support for browsers' origin private file systems, freeing your apps from local storage quota limitations. Let us know how it goes! Links below...
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The main arguments against virtue-signaling seem themselves to be made in the form of virtue signals. The fact we donโt agree on โvirtueโ is the real problem.
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An INCREDIBLE thank you to @yujonglee & @tryhyprnote for sponsoring TinyBase on GitHub. (So excited to see what you build!) ๐
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Government censorship of free speech probably puts us on the wrong side of history.
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Has anyone ever tried to implement an open source project โquality scoreโ based on maintenance, adoption, community support etc?
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๐ TinyBase v6.6 - DX FTW! This release includes an updated Inspector tool that lets you create, clone, edit, and delete data in your TinyBase stores - in the browser! Always trying to make our community members' lives easier. Let us know if we did. ๐
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