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Story 1 of 4: The quiet return of local-first software

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The quiet return of local-first software

After a decade of renting every workflow, teams are keeping the source of truth on the machine again.

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JBJules BergerNovember 10, 2026
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The notebook that survived the rewrite

The useful notes were the short ones, written in the margin of the work itself.

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JBJules BergerNovember 9, 2026
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Why inference costs rewrote product roadmaps

A feature that was free to demo became a line item, and the roadmap had to learn arithmetic.

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AQAda QuinnNovember 8, 2026
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Shipping without a status meeting

The release notes were the meeting. Everything else was a rehearsal.

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AQAda QuinnNovember 7, 2026

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