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Farm – an experiment in distributed peer-to-peer computing (github.com/inkandswitch)
81 points by simonpure on July 15, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


I am still trying to understand what this is (and install) but here is a link to Hypermerge document that would help you

https://github.com/automerge/hypermerge/blob/master/ARCHITEC...


One way to think about it: some of ink & switch's other projects use hypermerge to manage data/state e.g. https://github.com/automerge/pushpin. In farm, we use hypermerge for data and source code. As a result, not only are farm applications local-first*, the development and distribution of those applications is also local-first and collaborative.

*https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html


Heh, I did not expect to see this here. I helped create this project! I'm not sure if it still runs, but if anyone wants to try it out and it's not working, let me know.


I'm curious how did the ink & switch group form? Did they all come from a certain school?


Some other cool Ink & Switch projects:

Cambria [1], "isolated software layer that translates data between schemas on demand"

Diesis [2], a browser plugin that locally finds connections between the pages you've visited

[1] https://www.inkandswitch.com/cambria.html [2] https://github.com/inkandswitch/ksp-browser




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