Alfonso de la Rocha

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My personal public journal. Reflections on cutting-edge systems, career pivots, and the mindset of an engineer in the age of AI. Click to read @adlrocha Beyond The Code, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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What if we had Local-First Software?

2020291 points144 comments Web & Frontend details

The path to an offline SaaS model

Software should be designed to last

2020159 points135 comments Software Engineering details

And why I am trying to minimize my dependence on external libraries (whenever possible).

How to make a web app work offline

2020149 points20 comments Web & Frontend details

Service workers, caches, IndexedDB and PWA.

I built an IPFS crawler with libp2p

2020116 points19 comments Networking & Internet details

And lessons learnt

Immutable Databases

2020114 points53 comments Databases & Data details

Like blockchain but without blockchain.

Finite State Machines

2021102 points49 comments Software Engineering details

To infinity and beyond!