Adam Wiggins

My reflections on Local-First Conf 2026.

I built a custom feed for Bluesky that trains a model on my past interactions.

A prototype of email triage via a custom-trained model.

I built a machine learning pipeline for email triage.

My new research project asks whether a personal algorithm, inspired by social media, can help us filter our email, group chats, and other personal correspondence.

Web developers are discovering the joys of sync, including next-frame UIs, multiplayer by default, and a simplified stack.

The inside story of four years building Muse, a canvas-based thinking tool for iPad and Mac.

Let’s work together to change our industry conversation, direct our individual careers, and develop new institutions for making computers better.

Let’s make software development fast, fun, and ceremony-free.

I want to see us diversify payment models beyond ad-supported and B2B SaaS in order to enable more types of software.

In a hyperconnected age, I want software to help us find harmony between staying connected and staying focused.

Core OS interactions like copy-paste, multitasks, and multitouch have stagnated.

Files give us agency, the web gives us collaboration, mobile gives us direct manipulation.

We identify ourselves to computers hundreds of times a day, but it’s a mess.

We live in a computer-embroidered reality.