#17 – Kyle Simpson: Local-first identity

The guest of this episode is Kyle Simpson, a prolific JavaScript engineer and author of the book You Don’t Know JS. Over the past years, Kyle has been researching user identity and encryption in a local-first context which we explore in depth in this episode. This conversation will dive into the story that led Kyle to local-first including what he calls Web 2.5 and Zero Servers. Editor's Note: when Kyle speaks about SilentJS, is actually referring to QuiteJS (link below) 00:00 lntro 04:40 Kyle's journey: Web 3, Socket Supply, Vella and Identity 13:10 The Zero Server Paradigm 30:15 Definition of Web 2.5 39:43 Identity 01:03:53 Passkeys 01:26:51 Outro Mentioned in podcast: Kyle Simpson: x.com/getifyX / me.getify.com Local-peer-to-peer: https://github.com/WICG/local-peer-to-peer Webauthn-local-client: https://github.com/mylofi/webauthn-local-client Local-data-lock: https://github.com/mylofi/local-data-lock Local-vault: https://github.com/mylofi/local-vault Storage: https://github.com/BYOJS/storage Qr-data-sync: https://github.com/mylofi/qr-data-sync Vella.ai: https://www.vella.ai Socket Supply: https://socketsupply.co You-Dont-Know-JS: https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS LoFi.so: https://github.com/mylofi QuietJS: https://quiet.github.io/quiet-js Links: Website: https://localfirst.fm X/Twitter: https://x.com/localfirstfm Thank you to https://www.powersync.com/ and https://rocicorp.dev/ for supporting the podcast