📰 News & Discussions Local-first web application architecture "This architecture would be a cloud vendor's worst nightmare if it ever became popular, as they cannot earn a dime from it (aside from the basic cloud drive pennies). Thankfully for them, it is impossible to monetize for the company
📰 News & Discussions Local-first software (2019) - Hacker News The Local-First Software essay by Ink & Switch did the rounds on Hacker News again and generated a lot of discussion. Extreme Native Perf on the Web with Superhuman - Syntax.fm #918 (podcast episode) "Wes and Scott talk with
📰 News & Discussions Practical Local-First Software with Automerge - Peter van Hardenberg (talk video) "In this talk, we'll learn about local-first software: what it is, how it works, and when does and doesn't makes sense, and we'll also build a simple application with
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/27 Community Meetup (talks video) The LoFi/27 community meetup took place on Tuesday June 24th, 2025, with talks by James Arthur ("The Sync Stack"), Rashid Aziz ("Introducing create-lofi-app") and George Anthoi ("A fair novelist writing software"). Sync London (upcoming
📰 News & Discussions localfirst.fm #26 — Adam Fish: Ditto, Realm (podcast episode) "The guest of this episode is Adam Fish, co-founder and CEO of Ditto, a end-to-end syncing platform with a focus on resilient connectivity. In this conversation Adam shares the origin story of Ditto, his prior related work
📰 News & Discussions Local-First Conf 2025 videos First batch of videos of talks from this year's Local-First Conf. My takeaways from this year's @localfirstconf.com Reflections from Adam Wiggins on Local-First Conf 2025. Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps "Inspired
📰 News & Discussions Technically Speaking: How $400 million Runs on a 25 Person Team "Let me first start off by saying, Linear has done something incredible and worthy of emulating. The reason I’m diving into the nuts and bolts of their sync engine is because I am inspired
This was a big week for local-first software with Local-First Conf 2025 taking place in Berlin, and a couple of significant releases dropping. 📰 News & Discussions Local First Conf 2025 Brief Notes and photos from all the talks at this week's Local-First Conf 2025 in Berlin. Meet #TanStack
📰 News & Discussions Local-First Conf 2025 (upcoming event) "Join us for the second edition of Local-First Conf. Connect with a rapidly-growing community in an intimate setting. This year, the conference spans 3 days. May 26th is dedicated to workshops and community sessions, while the following 2 days feature outstanding
📰 News & Discussions Exploring interoperability & composability for local-first software "This is the third exploration connecting local-first software with the AT Protocol (atproto). Previously, I explored how atproto can enable new functionality for local-first software by providing distribution and legibility. Now, I'll focus on interoperability and composability—
📰 News & Discussions Beyond the Cloud: The Local-First Software Revolution • Brooklyn Zelenka & Julian Wood • GOTO 2025 "Distributed systems researcher Brooklyn Zelenka unpacks the paradigm shift of local-first computing, where applications primarily run on users' devices and synchronize seamlessly without central servers." localfirst.fm #24 – Ben Holmes:
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/25 Community Meetup The LoFi/25 community meetup took place on Tuesday April 29th, 2025, with talks by Johannes Schickling ("Local-first event sourcing"), Alexander Komyagin ("Data API: AI-native developer toolkit"), and Henok Ademtew ("Running big language models on mobile and web&