# ink & switch: side quests

> the projects around the lab — automerge, the tracks, the prototypes, muse, the residencies, and the conference circuit.

- 2017– — [automerge](https://automerge.org/) (lab, active): the library the lab spun out of cambridge research: a json-shaped crdt for local-first apps. rust core under a js/wasm api; 2.0 in 2023-01 after the ground-up rewrite; orion henry's columnar 3.0 in 2025-07. funded by nlnet/ngi zero core plus enterprise sponsors fly.io, prisma, and bowtie — and through kleppmann's patreon supporters. the record's largest number: moby dick costing 700mb in v2, 1.3mb in v3. (sources: [first supported release… ground-up rewrite](https://automerge.org/blog/automerge-2/), [automerge.org](https://automerge.org/blog/automerge-3/), [automerge 3](https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-011/), [automerge repo (created 2017-06-29)](https://github.com/automerge/automerge), [tenfold](https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-016/))
- 2024– — [patchwork](https://www.inkandswitch.com/project/patchwork/) (lab, active): 'project 030': the universal version control track — collaboration-as-primitive software where every change is inspectable, every app a user-modifiable shape. the public notebook opened 2024-02; tenfold itself was built inside patchwork. the aria sgai programme requires open-sourcing it; its descendant gaios is the malleable platform for that work. (sources: [project 030, 2024–2026](https://www.inkandswitch.com/project/patchwork/), [patchwork lab-notebook series](https://www.inkandswitch.com/patchwork/notebook/), [aria sgai joined](https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-013/), [gaios intro](https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-014/), [10th-anniversary origin story by todd matthews](https://www.inkandswitch.com/project/tenfold/story/))
- 2024– — [keyhive](https://www.inkandswitch.com/project/keyhive/) (lab, active): 'project 035': access control for local-first apps — beekem keyhive, brooklyn zelenka leading, with john mumm and alex good. beekeb the c-based version; beelay the standalone sync service for the automerge ecosystem. the notebook opened 2024-08; keyhive was open-sourced in 2025. (sources: [project 035](https://www.inkandswitch.com/project/keyhive/), [automerge 3](https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-011/), [automerge 3](https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-012/))
- 2024– — backstitch (lab, active): formerly 'beckett': version control and collaboration for students learning godot — a git-like workflow inside the engine, funded by the endless os foundation, built by sonnentag, zatkovich, and duncan. first lab note 2025-11; a godotcon talk in 2026-04 drew 'a euphoric response' per dispatch 018. (sources: [gaios intro](https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-014/), [new staff (reyburn/yen/stewen)](https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-018/), [endless access on the backstitch partnership](https://access.endlessstudios.com/blog/nobody-is-here-to-do-version-control-how-real-time-collaboration-in-godot-is-changing-the-game-design-classroom))
- 2025– — [gaios / coln](https://www.aria.org.uk/programme/safeguarded-ai/) (lab, active): the gaios project — 'guardian ai os' — announced in dispatch 014: a malleable, collaborative platform derived from patchwork, built for the uk aria safeguarded ai programme (~2.5 years, joined 2025-09). coln, leo stewen's local-first proof-checking database, joins it in 2026. (sources: [gaios intro](https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-014/), [aria sgai joined](https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-013/), [aria safeguarded ai programme page](https://www.aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/mathematics-for-safe-ai/safeguarded-ai/), [new staff (reyburn/yen/stewen)](https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-018/))
- 2022– — [the programmable ink line](https://www.inkandswitch.com/inkbase/) (lab, continuing): the programmable ink track's through-line: crosscut (2022-03, drawing dynamic models) → inkbase (2022-11, the 675-point manifesto) → untangle (2023-01, smt-solver sketch constraints) → sketchy calendar (2025-05) → playbook (2026, with lindenbaum, warth, reese; the live 2025 papers came out of it). the question — what if sketches were programmable like spreadsheets? — is still open. (sources: [drawing dynamic models](https://www.inkandswitch.com/crosscut/), [programmable ink essay](https://www.inkandswitch.com/inkbase/), [fuzzy constraints + smt solver essay](https://www.inkandswitch.com/untangle/), [automerge 3](https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-011/), [playbook collaborators incl](https://www.inkandswitch.com/project/playbook/), [inkbase/programmable ink: 675 pts, 83 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33799512))
- 2022– — [malleable software](https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software) (lab, continuing): the malleable software track: potluck (2022) and embark (2023) as prototypes, litt's age-of-llms bridge essay (2023-03), and the flagship 'malleable software' essay (2025-06) — 'restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps.' its lead researcher departed for notion four months after publication. (sources: [i&s 2025 essay](https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software), [litt: malleable software in the age of llms — bridges to agent era](https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2023/03/25/llm-end-user-programming.html), [dynamic documents as personal software](https://www.inkandswitch.com/potluck/), [dynamic documents for travel planning](https://www.inkandswitch.com/embark/), [litt: in september, i left my research position at ink & switch… now work at notion](https://buttondown.com/geoffreylitt/archive/i-changed-jobs-and-other-updates/))
- 2025– — the sync stack (lab, continuing): the infra layer the lab keeps open-sourcing: the automerge-repo networking wrapper (2.0 in 2025-05); subduction, the deterministic-chunking sync engine inside gaios; beelay; and livelymerge — dan ingalls and alex warth building 'a smalltalk / lively kernel-like system that rides on top of automerge.' (sources: [automerge 3](https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-011/), [subduction sync engine](https://github.com/inkandswitch/subduction), [project 035](https://www.inkandswitch.com/project/keyhive/), [new staff (reyburn/yen/stewen)](https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-018/), [release timeline: 2](https://automerge.org/blog/))
- 2018–2020 — the early prototypes (lab, ended): the early prototypes that produced the papers and then stopped by design: pixelpusher (2018, the react/automerge collab demo), livebook and trellis (the 2018 homepage's first links), capstone (2018, the tablet for thinking — source open on github), and pushpin (2020, 'production-quality p2p,' internally used, then archived 'for posterity' as the dat/hypermerge ecosystem died under it — maintenance handed to community developers). (sources: [earliest crdt-prototype essay (pvh)](https://www.inkandswitch.com/pixelpusher/), [earliest full homepage capture](https://web.archive.org/web/20180330141150/https://inkandswitch.com/), [capstone credits list](https://github.com/inkandswitch/capstone), [production-grade p2p collaboration prototype](https://www.inkandswitch.com/pushpin/), [archived for posterity](https://github.com/inkandswitch/pushpin))
- 2023– — [the dispatch](https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/) (lab, active): the dispatch — the lab's own chronicle, issues 001–018 from 2023-11 to 2026-06, each carrying project news, staff changes, and event calendars. the primary source for roughly half the timeline events in this dossier. (sources: [dispatch index nov 2023–jun 2026](https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/), [about a dozen researchers](https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-001/), [new staff (reyburn/yen/stewen)](https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-018/))
- 2019– — [muse / allume](https://museapp.com/) (wiggins, handed-off): the only consumer spinout: the muse team created muse software, inc. in summer 2019, taking the lab's ip for a stake. $2m raised (wiggins' self-report), tens of thousands of active users — and in 2023-08/09, 'the end of an era': wiggins and most of the team departed, adam wulf carried on solo, and muse continues today as allume. the phrase was muse's, never the lab's. (sources: [muse history: $2m, seven-person team, fall-2023 departure](https://adamwiggins.com/muse-retrospective/), [end of an era for muse](https://museapp.com/podcast/transcripts/83-end-and-beginning/), [mirror of an end, and a beginning muse letter](https://vuink.com/post/zhfrncc-d-dpbz/end-and-beginning), [press coverage of muse team departure](https://www.webpronews.com/muse-softwares-entire-team-save-one-is-departing-the-company/), [muse design essay + authors](https://www.inkandswitch.com/muse/))
- 2023– — the residency projects (residents, continuing): the researcher-in-residence artifacts: obenauer's ollos and workbench (itemized-os essays), mary rose cook's lude (chess-puzzle gpt, 2023-11), elliott evans and josh horowitz's droste's lair (recursive-card writing space, 2024-12), june gardner's nova, mimi reyburn's residency → staff, derek yen's beekem formalization, and wiggins' own firehose (a personal triage algorithm for the message stream, 2026). (sources: [ollos essay (itemized os)](https://alexanderobenauer.com/ollos/), [about a dozen researchers](https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-001/), [directors year-end letter](https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-008/), [new staff (reyburn/yen/stewen)](https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-018/), [patchwork notes](https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-017/))
- 2024– — [local-first conf and the unconferences](https://localfirstconf.com/) (community, continuing): the community's conference, not the lab's — local-first conf 2024 ('the world's first,' berlin, co-organized by lab-adjacent people including wiggins) and lfc 2026 (festsaal kreuzberg, 2026-07-12→14) with an ink & switch 'lab day' on patchwork, playbook, and automerge. the lab's own public gathering form is the unconference: st. louis 2023-09 beside the last strange loop, lisbon 2023-10 with fission and dxos (~100 friends), la 2024-10 at the preserve. (sources: [first lfc, berlin](https://www.localfirstconf.com/local-first-conf-2024), [lfc 2026, festsaal kreuzberg](https://www.localfirstconf.com/), [patchwork launch](https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-003/), [patchwork notes](https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-017/), [unconference history 2022–2024](https://www.inkandswitch.com/events/), [lisbon unconf w/ fission + dxos](https://www.inkandswitch.com/newsletter/dispatch-002/))

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