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Tech Tuesday: Building a Local-First Search Engine with Web Workers

Apr 28 · 3 min read · Welcome back to Tech Tuesday! If you look at any major genealogy platform today, the search bar is the center of the universe. Users expect to type in "John Smith Brooklyn" and instantly see a filtere

Tech Tuesday: Taming React and D3.js to Render Massive Family Trees

Apr 21 · 3 min read · Welcome back to Tech Tuesday! Last week, we dove into the invisible engine of Genealogix: how we use IndexedDB and .gnlx bundles to build a local-first application without a centralized cloud database

Tech Tuesday: How Genealogix Stores Your Data Without a Cloud Database

Apr 15 · 4 min read · Welcome to the first installment of Tech Tuesday! When I first started building Genealogix, I had a strict, non-negotiable rule: zero cloud databases. To fulfill the mission of helping people stop ren

Vibe-Coding My Family Tree: The Birth of Genealogix

Apr 12 · 5 min read · Growing Up With 100 Cousins My name is Robert, and I grew up in Brooklyn, New York, with my parents and brother. My parents were both born in Puerto Rico before World War II, and moved to New York in