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Ink and Switch Interactive publishes research on malleable software and local-first systems to restore user agency. The organization shares essays and lab notebooks covering topics like programmable ink and dynamic documents. Recent work focuses on creating secure, collaborative environments where users retain ownership of their data.
- ▪The organization publishes research results on their website and in academic venues.
- ▪A 2025 essay titled 'Malleable Software' discusses restoring user agency in locked-down apps.
- ▪Keyhive is a local-first access control system featuring capabilities and end-to-end encryption.
- ▪Livelymerge aims to create a collaborative programming kernel where object memory is shared by multiple users.
- ▪A 2019 essay introduced the concept of local-first software that allows users to own their data despite cloud reliance.
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| Original publisher | Inkandswitch |
| Canonical URL | https://www.inkandswitch.com/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:50:25 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-25T10:20:32.531Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-25T10:20:32.531Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 6zIU66EgWixt · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Featured Work We publish the results of our research here on our website and in academic venues. Below you'll find a selection of our most popular essays and recent lab notebooks. For more, see the complete list of our writing, and subscribe to our newsletter to be notified when we publish new work. Malleable Software Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps. 2025 Essay Ambsheets: Spreadsheets for exploring scenarios Inventing new kinds of spreadsheets for exploring possibility spaces and making better decisions. Lab Notebook Keyhive: Local-first access control A local-first access control system with capabilities and end-to-end encryption for secure & trusted collaboration.
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