Designer and researcher at Elicit, known for her work on local-first software and “barefoot programming.” Her talk “Home-cooked Software and Barefoot Programmers” at the Local-First Conference argues that machine learning and language models are about to create a golden age of local software, home-cooked apps, and barefoot developers — enabling communities to build their own tools.

Relevant to the Network Nations interest in networked technologies that empower communities to build and maintain their own infrastructure rather than depending on centralized platforms.

Link: YouTube talk