mactavish88

Local-first tech has been around since before the internet, and scalable local-first tech has become increasingly accessible due to the hard work of many, many incredibly talented engineers over the years (e.g. via the R&D from Martin Kleppmann and the team at Ink and Switch).

What are your top 3 apps that're currently primarily cloud-based that you'd much rather see become local-first? (i.e. cloud-optional)

Having been coding for nearly 25 years now and being in engineering management for the past couple of years (still actively coding 30-50% of my time), I'm feeling increasingly tired of tech. Software development, more specifically. I'm quite capable of both producing software myself _and_ managing teams producing software.

Have you pivoted from software engineering/engineering management into a different career altogether in your 30s, 40s or beyond? I'm keen to hear your story, and perhaps glean some ideas/suggestions.

I'm more than happy to go back to school or do training courses part-time to learn whatever I need to.