Offline Camp has been all around the world, from the Catskill Mountains, to the Central Coast of California, to Berlin, to Oregon. We’re ready to announce the fifth version of Offline Camp… 🥁🥁🥁 — …but first a bit of suspense... #WayBackWednesday What’s it like at Offline Camp? Let’s take a look back! Offline Camp has been a wonderful combination of the Offline First community + a beautiful, secluded location. …

Exploring options for pushing the movement forward — A common theme at Offline Camp has been conversations about building the Offline First community. After Offline Camp Catskills, Maureen McElaney provided a writeup of a discussion about building the offline first community. …

An Offline Camp passion talk about how hackathons are terrible and how they can be better — Editor’s Note: Participants at Offline Camp Oregon had diverse backgrounds and interests, ranging far beyond the Offline First approach that we came together to discuss. Through short passion talks, campers shared with us some of the hobbies, projects, and technologies that excite them. …

Last night the City Council in Burlington, Vermont voted to sell its municipally-controlled gigabit fiber-optic network to Schurz Communications. The outcome is disappointing to say the least, but the absence of transparency and breakdown of process around the decision was even more exasperating. In April of 2014, shortly after…

The Offline First community answers the question: What is Offline First? — The Offline First community is made up of developers, designers, user experience professionals, security professionals, privacy experts, and many others with a diverse range of perspectives and interests. The Offline First community has gathered regularly at Offline Camps around the world to discuss the intersection of Offline First with everything…

How Uncle Bob’s “Thought Police” blog post does a disservice to his colleagues in the software industry. — There are many people in the software industry who look up to Uncle Bob as a leader. Given this, I want to address one of the many major problems with his recent “Thought Police” blog post. Through intentionality or through sloppiness, Uncle Bob has aligned himself with a sexist worldview…

I recently wrote about Progressive Web Apps and how I believe that the best answer for offline sync for Progressive Web Apps today is a combination of Apache CouchDB, Hoodie, and PouchDB. Offline Sync for Progressive Web Apps Apache CouchDB + Hoodie + PouchDBmedium.com Next Tuesday, July 18 I will be presenting a webinar expanding on this topic as part of The…

An Offline Camp passion talk about history, the present, technology, and empathy — Editor’s Note: Participants at Offline Camp Berlin had diverse backgrounds and interests, ranging far beyond the Offline First approach that we came together to discuss. Through short passion talks, campers shared with us some of the hobbies, projects, and technologies that excite them. …

It’s also “Performance First.” Twitter Lite and others are already doing it. — I recently returned from Offline Camp Berlin, our third Offline Camp. A funny thing has happened at every Offline Camp to date. …