📰 News & Discussions Local-First Conf Recap | Ink & Switch "All of the Local-First Conf 2026 videos are published now, so it’s a great moment to share some reflections from the annual event." LSREP: A Longitudinal State-Replay Protocol for Evaluating Conversational Memory, with ICE v2
📰 News & Discussions Substract: ideas for a personal, local-first database "I’m currently brainstorming/prototyping 'Substract', a triple store CRDT to build personal, local-first software. The ideas here aren’t particularly original; this is just my own re-packaging of things I’ve been interested
📰 News & Discussions Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own "[funes] is a durable memory layer for your agents (Claude Code, Codex, pi, and Hermes). It is built from the sessions already on your machine. It works locally and becomes part of your agent's normal workflow
📰 News & Discussions Scott Jenson on Evolving Desktop OS, Local-First, & Agentic UX "In this episode, Scott Jenson, a veteran UX designer known for his work on the Macintosh, Google Maps, and Chrome examines the long-term stagnation of desktop operating systems and the limitations of current mobile
📰 News & Discussions We built a health app with no server "Oi Studios on shipping an iOS health app with no HTTP client anywhere in the codebase: HealthKit as the source, SwiftData on device, and a two-partition store where HealthKit-derived models stay permanently local while user-authored
📰 News & Discussions How Local-First Sync Handles Offline Changes "Done Bear's engineering write-up explains a production sync loop built around a durable outbox, server-assigned action ordering, idempotent mutation identities, WebSocket buffering during HTTP catch-up, and full bootstrap for stale cursors. It also states
📰 News & Discussions Towards a Local-First Desktop | Julian Sparber & Tobias Bernard @ GUADEC 2026 "This talk introduces the newly formed Modal Collective, and the ongoing effort to bring local-first sync to the GNOME ecosystem. So far, this has mostly been focused around Reflection, a local-first collaborative
📰 News & Discussions Local-First Conf 2026 talks Video recordings of talks from Local-First Conf 2026 are now available. Durable Offline Writes: Lessons from Seven Sync Engines "I have been circling this problem for years. Back in 2019 I built debe, a reactive offline-first datastore with CRDT-
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/39 (Local-First) Community Meetup LoFi/39 took place on July 28, 2026 with talks by Talks by Jimmie Wang ("Myfield: Building Identity and Sync for Local-First Apps"), Kushagra Lakhwani ("ResearchPocket: Your Sync Server is LoFi") and Philip Schatz ("Sharing
📰 News & Discussions We're building Postgres in Rust. Using the LLVM of databases "Turso is becoming the LLVM of databases. One modern, reliable core; many database frontends compiled down onto it. SQLite was the first frontend. Postgres is next. Others will follow. But the end game is
📰 News & Discussions Work in Parallel, Without Fear Conflict Tolerance for Local-First Collaboration. Jonas Schürmann, Local-First Conf 2026, Lab Day, Berlin. The Path to Sovereign Data: Challenges and Priorities in Local-First Computing "Local-first computing advocates argued that 'data ownership' had to mean practical
📰 News & Discussions Right to Intelligence "Local AI is the next personal computer. Not a chatbot account. Not a rented API. A model you can run on your own machine, inspect, repair, improve, and use without asking a platform to stay online. That is the line RTI exists to