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#24 – Ben Holmes: Astro, Simple Sync Engine & Warp

#24 – Ben Holmes: Astro, Simple Sync Engine & Warp

Update: 2025-05-06

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The guest of this episode is Ben Holmes, a senior web developer and educator known for his whiteboard videos. After having spent most of his career building server-centric applications, Ben recently explored local-first software by building a simple sync engine which we talk through in-depth.

Mentioned in podcast:

Ben Holmes: Website + X + YouTube + Bluesky + GitHub
Astro
Simple Sync Engine
Warp
Stop Building Databases by Carl Sverre
SQLSync
Graft

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Thank you to Jazz for supporting the podcast.

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#24 – Ben Holmes: Astro, Simple Sync Engine & Warp

#24 – Ben Holmes: Astro, Simple Sync Engine & Warp

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