Grant Forrest

got started in design systems, moonlit in open source, and then jumped straight into spatial canvas. now I'm working on local-first web apps and other moonshot ideas.

I'm looking for a new role! Get in touch.

New stuff

(I stay busy)

A phone running a grocery list app, with the title 'Biscuits' and tagline 'Scratch-Made Apps'

A suite of local-first web apps

A green tree and the word 'Verdant'

Local-first data and sync framework

A capture from within an AR headset of a realspace room with virtual furniture models laid out within, and a floating menu

Augmented reality furniture staging and home decoration

A slide deck showing a flowchart with various changeset representations being ordered in time by clients and servers independently

My 2024 talk for the Triangle Devs meetup

I dig into how local-first works, my approach to migrating databases, and my hopes for sustainable software

Blog series: making a local-first framework

A deep dive into the goals, challenges, and implementation of Verdant

My personal design system

An experimental and idiosyncratic library I use in all my side-projects

The image is blurred, but you can make out a purple background and white text overlaid

Old stuff

My 2023 talk for the local-first web community

I describe my experience making local-first tooling and getting apps to market

A code editor with a preview window showing a 3D cloud model

An in-headset WebXR development environment

A 2d canvas space with little floating video feeds and avatars, screen shares, and files dropped on it

Online spatial meeting spaces. A prior startup.

Calendar Blocks

A set of flexible primitives for React date pickers

A view down the subway, kind of PS2-level graphics, with film grain and depth of field

Lo-fi subway sketch

A WebGL subway animation I made for Verdant's previous incarnation

A 3D cloudscape seen from above, with big white clouds hovering over a patchwork green field

A procedural 3d cloudscape

Building my own smart alarm clock

GraphQL-ArangoDB

Translates GraphQL queries to ArangoDB AQL queries

Tools for multi-axis keyboard navigation