Schalk Venter PRO
🔧 Front-end Development / 🎨 UI Design / 🌍 Social Good / ❤️ Destigmatising mental illness
Cloud Before the Horse
Rethinking our relationship with the cloud
www.lofi.so
20 October 2025
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SLACK MEETING • API DOG • CASCADE OF OUTAGES • CREATION OF TALK
20 October 2025
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SLACK MEETING • API DOG • CASCADE OF OUTAGES • CREATION OF TALK
20 October 2025
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SLACK MEETING • API DOG • CASCADE OF OUTAGES • CREATION OF TALK
20 October 2025
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SLACK MEETING • API DOG • CASCADE OF OUTAGES • CREATION OF TALK
20 October 2025
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SLACK MEETING • API DOG • CASCADE OF OUTAGES • CREATION OF TALK
20 October 2025
SLACK MEETING • API DOG • CASCADE OF OUTAGES • CREATION OF TALK
20 October 2025
SLACK MEETING • API DOG • CASCADE OF OUTAGES • CREATION OF TALK
20 October 2025
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SLACK MEETING • API DOG • CASCADE OF OUTAGES • CREATION OF TALK
20 October 2025
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SLACK MEETING • API DOG • CASCADE OF OUTAGES • CREATION OF TALK
20 October 2025
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SLACK MEETING • API DOG • CASCADE OF OUTAGES • CREATION OF TALK
20 October 2025
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SLACK MEETING • API DOG • CASCADE OF OUTAGES • CREATION OF TALK
20 October 2025
SLACK MEETING • API DOG • CASCADE OF OUTAGES • CREATION OF TALK
20 October 2025
SLACK MEETING • API DOG • CASCADE OF OUTAGES • CREATION OF TALK
20 October 2025
20 October 2025
20 October 2025
SLACK MEETING • API DOG • CASCADE OF OUTAGES • CREATION OF TALK
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SLACK MEETING • API DOG • CASCADE OF OUTAGES • CREATION OF TALK
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SLACK MEETING • API DOG • CASCADE OF OUTAGES • CREATION OF TALK
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SLACK MEETING • API DOG • CASCADE OF OUTAGES • CREATION OF TALK
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20 October 2025
SLACK MEETING • API DOG • CASCADE OF OUTAGES • CREATION OF TALK
20 October 2025
29 October 2025
18 November 2025
5 December 2025
20 October 2025
SLACK MEETING • API DOG • CASCADE OF OUTAGES • CREATION OF TALK
20 October 2025
29 October 2025
18 November 2025
5 December 2025
20 October 2025
SLACK MEETING • API DOG • CASCADE OF OUTAGES • CREATION OF TALK
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Who the heck is this guy?
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Offline-First, First.
Offline-First, First.
Offline-First, First.
https://offlinefirst.org
Offline-First, First.
https://offlinefirst.org
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Offline-First, First.
https://offlinefirst.org
Offline-First, First.
https://offlinefirst.org
Offline-First, First.
https://offlinefirst.org
Offline-First, First.
https://offlinefirst.org
Offline-First, First.
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Offline-First, First.
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Offline-First, First.
Concerns
Data at Scale
Data Ownership
Concerns
Data at Scale
Data Ownership
Data Constraints
Data at Scale
Data Ownership
Data Constraints
Concerns
Constrained Access
“At least a third to half of the internet’s users live in part of the world where internet is not an unlimited asset, these are resources that are quite constrained, they are metered and they cost a lot in one way or another to be constantly cloud connected and constantly sending all of the data back and forth.”
Constrained Access
“At least a third to half of the internet’s users live in part of the world where internet is not an unlimited asset, these are resources that are quite constrained, they are metered and they cost a lot in one way or another to be constantly cloud connected and constantly sending all of the data back and forth.”
Constrained Access
“At least a third to half of the internet’s users live in part of the world where internet is not an unlimited asset, these are resources that are quite constrained, they are metered and they cost a lot in one way or another to be constantly cloud connected and constantly sending all of the data back and forth.”
Constrained Access
“At least a third to half of the internet’s users live in part of the world where internet is not an unlimited asset, these are resources that are quite constrained, they are metered and they cost a lot in one way or another to be constantly cloud connected and constantly sending all of the data back and forth.”
Constrained Access
“At least a third to half of the internet’s users live in part of the world where internet is not an unlimited asset, these are resources that are quite constrained, they are metered and they cost a lot in one way or another to be constantly cloud connected and constantly sending all of the data back and forth.”
Offline-First
Offline-First
VALUE
EFFORT
VALUE
EFFORT
WASM
OPFS
STANDARDS
WEB RTC
WASM
OPFS
STANDARDS
WEB RTC
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OPFS
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Offline-First
https://offlinefirst.org
Offline-First, First.
Offline-First
Offline-First
Legacy Code
VALUE
EFFORT
VALUE
EFFORT
Data at Scale
Data Ownership
Data Constraints
Date + State Complexity
COMPLEXITY
COMPLEXITY
COMPLEXITY
COMPLEXITY
2026
COMPLEXITY
2026
2004
COMPLEXITY
2026
2004
2030
COMPLEXITY
2026
2004
2030
1998
COMPLEXITY
2026
2004
2030
Hello, who dis?
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
The creator of the mother-flippen Internet!
Still Kicking
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
The Goal
Document Sharing Platform of the Future
Web 2.0
"What we need to remember, though, is that the Web, as we know it now, is a fleeting thing. [...] The Web will be understood not as screenfuls of text and graphics but as a transport mechanism, the ether through which interactivity happens."
Darcy DiNucci
Print Magazine (1999)
As Delivery Platform
Schrodinger's Data
Logitech MX Master
Logitech MX Master
Accidental Complexity
I would say, first and foremost, a tremendous amount of current complexity in modern front-ends are directly related mitigating the drawbacks of the cloud-centric model. Most of it is a result of having all our logic live out there somewhere else in the world, but wanting to offset the negative user-experience that comes with that. It is chosen complexity.
Accidental Complexity
I would say, first and foremost, a tremendous amount of current complexity in modern front-ends are directly related mitigating the drawbacks of the cloud-centric model. Most of it is a result of having all our logic live out there somewhere else in the world, but wanting to offset the negative user-experience that comes with that. It is chosen complexity.
Accidental Complexity
I would say, first and foremost, a tremendous amount of current complexity in modern front-ends are directly related mitigating the drawbacks of the cloud-centric model. Most of it is a result of having all our logic live out there somewhere else in the world, but wanting to offset the negative user-experience that comes with that. It is chosen complexity.
Accidental Complexity
I would say, first and foremost, a tremendous amount of current complexity in modern front-ends are directly related mitigating the drawbacks of the cloud-centric model. Most of it is a result of having all our logic live out there somewhere else in the world, but wanting to offset the negative user-experience that comes with that. It is chosen complexity.
Complexity
Turbulance Test
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