đź“° News & Discussions Peter van Hardenberg - Ink and Switch, Automerge | devtools.fm (podcast episode) "This week we're joined by Peter van Hardenberg (PVH), director of the Ink and Switch research lab and co-author of the seminal Local First Software paper. Peter shares the origin story of
📰 News & Discussions LocalFirst: You Keep Using That Word "'local-first' isn’t a binary label we can cleanly apply to something. It’s more of a spectrum." See also HN discussion I analyzed 9,300+ "I wish there was an app for this" posts
đź“° News & Discussions The Window for Local-First AI (Before the Defaults Ship) "There is a moment in every technological shift when the future is still negotiable. That moment has a shelf life. For personal AI, we are in it now. [...] [T]he technology for local-first alternatives is maturing now.
đź“° News & Discussions Local First devroom at FOSDEM'26 conference in Brussels: the program is out! "That's your gift for Christmas edition: an 8 hours lineup full of the best projects, frameworks, talks, and speakers! 22 talks, by 25 speakers. You can't miss the
đź“° News & Discussions A first look at local-first Feathers "The story of the Feathers JS Automerge integration with an example for a local-first real-time app without a backend." - David Luecke ChEffect - Part 10 "A Local-First App built with Effect & LiveStore By Maxwell Brown &
đź“° News & Discussions Sync Conf 2025 talk videos Videos of talk recordings from Sync Conf 2025 have been published on YouTube. Maybe we don't need a server "Have you heard of syncthing ? It syncs a folder between devices, like Dropbox, without the need for someone else'
📰 News & Discussions “The local-first rebellion”: How Home Assistant became the most important project in your house "Home Assistant is now running in more than 2 million households, orchestrating everything from thermostats and door locks to motion sensors and lighting. All on users’ own hardware, not the cloud. The
📰 News & Discussions Present your work at FOSDEM conference in Brussels "8 more days to submit your proposal to the Local-First devroom at the upcoming FOSDEM (biggest Free and Open Source conference in Europe)! Deadline is 5th of December. If you are into local first apps or frameworks and
đź“° News & Discussions Convex raises $24M to reinvent backends "Sync is a central part of Convex's vision. But when developers want instant, automatic, optimistic local interaction with their app data, we currently offer little help. We aim to ship a Convex-flavored take on local-first that will feel
📰 News & Discussions TanStack DB 0.5 — Query-Driven Sync "We're releasing TanStack DB 0.5 today with Query-Driven Sync — a feature that fundamentally changes how you think about loading data." Syntax.fm #954: Fullstack TanStack! The Scoop with Tanner Linsley (podcast episode) "Wes and Scott
đź“° News & Discussions Sync Conf 2025 (upcoming event) "Sync Conf is a boutique conference on the future of real-time, collaborative, agentic software development." November 12th, San Francisco. Local-first mobile app meetup with Expo and InstantDB "Before SyncConf kicks off on November 12th, join a lot of the
đź“° News & Discussions LoFi/31 Community Meetup The LoFi/31 community meetup took place on Tuesday October 28th, 2025, with talks by Tim Hampson ("Local Data: Design is everything"), Pablo Mayrgundter ("Bldrs.ai: browser-based OSS CAD engine with AI integration"), and Yonatan Feleke ("Sync &