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Author: Jack Mordaunt <jackmordaunt.dev@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 18 Jul 2025 14:03:21 -0300

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+date = 'Thu Mar 17 17:30:23 2022'
+draft = false
+title = 'Sprig Arbor Chat Client'
+description = "Arbor Chat client in Go."
+authors = ["Jack Mordaunt"]
+tags = ["Go", "Gio", "Native", "Portfolio"]
+categories = ["development"]
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+
+<style>
+.carousel {
+  display: flex;
+  overflow: scroll;
+}
+</style>
+
+<div class="carousel">
+  <img src="/images/sprig/sprig.webp" alt="Sprig" />
+</div>
+
+## Overview
+
+Built by [~whereswaldon](https://git.sr.ht/~whereswaldon), [Sprig](https://git.sr.ht/~whereswaldon/sprig) is a client for [Arbor](https://man.sr.ht/~whereswaldon/arborchat), an open source federated chat platform.  
+Sprig is a cross-platform client supporting Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.  
+It's written in **Go**, using the [**Gio**](https://git.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/gio) immediate-mode UI toolkit.
+
+---
+
+### My Role
+
+When I joined, Sprig stored each chat message as an individual file on disk. This file-per-message model worked reasonably well on Linux, but resulted in **severely degraded performance** on Windows, where reading thousands of tiny files led to **notably slow startup times**.
+
+To address this, I migrated the persistence layer from the filesystem to [**BoltDB**](https://github.com/boltdb/bolt), an embedded key-value store written in Go. This upgrade significantly improved startup performance across all platforms, with the largest gains on Windows.
+
+In addition to this core performance enhancement, I contributed minor UI improvements and refinements.
+
+---
+
+### Result 
+
+The app now launches significantly faster, offers a smoother user experience, and maintains cross-platform compatibility—all without sacrificing the simplicity of a local-first storage model.
+
+### Platforms
+
+<div style="display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 2rem;">
+  <i class="fa-4x fa-brands fa-windows"></i>
+  <i class="fa-4x fa-brands fa-apple"></i>
+  <i class="fa-4x fa-brands fa-linux"></i>
+  <i class="fa-4x fa-brands fa-android"></i>
+</div>
+
+### Languages
+
+<div style="display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 2rem;">
+  <img style="max-height: 100px;" src="/images/brands/go.svg"/>
+</div>
+
+### Tech
+
+<div style="display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 2rem;">
+  <img style="max-height: 100px;" src="/images/brands/gio.svg" class="invert-me"/>
+  <img style="max-height: 100px;" src="/images/brands/boltdb.webp"/>
+</div>
+