Ink & Switch
@inkandswitch
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Industrial research lab working on digital tools and computing for creators.
Joined December 2015
Upwelling:.Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers.
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Ink & Switch's next essay, Peritext, a rich-text CRDT, arrives tomorrow.
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From the Automerge team: Introducing Automerge-Repo, a "batteries-included" toolkit for building local-first applications.
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Our latest research project: Muse explores how to bring the aesthetic of an artist's studio—personal, informal, flexible, multi-media, malleable—to a digital tool.
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Calling Engineers and Designers for a new Ink & Switch project: We're exploring tablet-based programming. Join us this fall and work with @szymon_k.
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A new Ink & Switch piece lands tomorrow. Project Backchannel: A relationship-based digital identity system.
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Ink & Switch is recruiting developers for three months to work on an upcoming local-first / automerge project. We're looking for a Swift developer and someone with experience in Rust/WASM to help us bring Automerge to new platforms.
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We've been working quietly for a while, but we've got a new essay coming soon. Watch this space.
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It's wonderful to welcome @todepond to Ink & Switch as a researcher-in-residence. Looking forward to sharing lots of ideas and inspiration.
i'm joining @inkandswitch as a researcher-in-residence. here's my full announcement post.
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A new Ink & Switch essay will arrive tomorrow. Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models.
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Readers interested in following our work independently of any particular social network can subscribe via RSS at this URL:
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Often, people ask how they can follow along with our work at Ink & Switch. We're beginning a newsletter to share more timely information than our essays. First issue to follow in a few days:.
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Touchscreen interface with no toolbars, no modes, and fingers+stylus used simultaneously.
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The whole Ink & Switch crew will be at Strangeloop this month, with @szymon_k presenting a new piece on our ongoing Programmable Ink research track.
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PDF excerpts. Organized like any other document, with wormhole links back to their source.
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You can hear all about our work on "programmable ink" at @Strangeloop_STL this year when @szymon_k comes to share the results of a few years of very strange experiments.
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JOB POST: Ink & Switch is looking to contract a UX designer for an upcoming project examining collaboration workflows in professional writing.
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This is arguably the most valuable collaboration technology we have developed.
@steveruizok at @inkandswitch we have this concept of “start of core [hours]” which is 9:00 SF, and we say “let’s meet at soc+2” - so I just have to remember that soc is 18:00 my time and no time zones have to be involved.
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We encourage anyone with an interest in databases to join HYTRADBOI, not least because regular lab collaborators @martinkl and @geoffreylitt will be there speaking.
"Have you tried rubbing a database on it?". A day of 10 minute talks on strange and unusual uses of databases and other data-centric ideas.
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At Strangeloop this year @okdistribute and @helveticade will be presenting some of the original research we've been doing into digital trust & identity at @inkandswitch.
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Documents organized spatially in a fluid zooming interface.
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Today we published a new version of our website, which finally brings the beautiful design work of @seaofclouds to all our essays.
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"We yearn to sketch in a dynamic medium." -- @szymon_k .Hear about our ongoing research into programmable ink in his @Strangeloop_STL talk here.
"Programmable Ink" by Szymon Kaliski @szymon_k from Strange Loop 2022
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Inkbase, an exploration of Programmable Ink was presented by @szymon_k at @liveprog2021. You can now watch that video (and others) here:
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Did you know that Ink & Switch has a newsletter you can subscribe to? We send out an monthly update with all kinds of news about our research. You can subscribe on our home page or browse the archive.
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Our team already has folk who know CRDTs inside and out. What we're looking for are domain experts who can help us make sure we build ergonomic Swift and Python support and finesse the details of our Rust implementation across platforms.
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Dispatch 004: universal version control & rich text in automerge.
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This is what we call an "industrialization project", so you'll be working with our team on improving Automerge support in real-world production contexts. This is a great opportunity to help bring local-first software out of the lab.
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@geoffreylitt @okdistribute @scottjenson @bumble_blue_ @blaine @martinkl Also @daiyitastic who wasn't an author of the paper but who wrote large amounts of both the prototype and the software that delivers the final essay.
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This also marks the first time that our PushPin essay on one approach to building local-first software is available in HTML form:
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This is our first spinout of industrial research as a commercial product. More are in the works.
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Now it's graduating from the lab to become a product. Follow that part of the team here: @MuseAppHQ.
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If you prefer to receive these updates via email, you can subscribe here:
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Look familiar? This is the line of research we've been pursuing with Dossier, Capstone, and an earlier prototype also named Muse.
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We've also put together a starter pack for following Ink & Switch staff here:
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Building on our recent work on End User Programming, @szymon_k and @wolkenmachine are exploring a new kind of tool for thought on iPad. We're looking to add a skilled Swift developer to the team.
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@szymon_k @wolkenmachine This is a brief and intense 10 week engagement, scheduled to begin in late March.
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@ratkins Yes, successful independent software vendors these days often have diverisified app portfolios and revenue sources. Examples such as Readdle (, Panic (, and Ulysses (.
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@ratkins So the @inkandswitch funding model is still a work in progress, but taking an equity stake in commercial spinouts is one piece of the puzzle.
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