2024.11.21

đź“° News & Discussions

LoFi/21 community meetup (upcoming event)

LoFi/21 is scheduled for Tuesday November 26th at 8am PT, with talks by Felicia Chang (@felchang), from @jamsockethq, Sahil Lalani (@SahilLalani0) and Zixuan Chen (zx_loro) from @loro_dev.

Local-First News is on Bluesky đź¦‹

An active local-first community is emerging on Bluesky, a decentralized Twitter alternative advised by Martin Kleppmann. A number of “starter packs” (1, 2, 3, 4) have been created, and Jess Martin has created a feed aggregating posts that mention local-first.

Local Thirst London (upcoming meetup)

Jamsocket and tldraw are hosting a “local thirst” meetup in London on December 5th at 6:30pm GMT. "A happy hour for people interested in local-first software, realtime databases, multiplayer apps, distributed systems, CRDTs, and sync engines."

File Over App: A Philosophy for Digital Longevity

"My take on the 'file over app' philosophy and why it’s essential for keeping my data resilient and built to last." See also HN discussion.

Expo Launch Party — Local-First Newness (upcoming event)

"I’m super excited to give you a sneak peek of our upcoming local-first app! We'll be showcasing it on November 21 at the @expo launch party! Join us to get a taste of what the future of local-first @expo apps powered by @livestoredev will look like!" - @betomoedano

🛠️ Tools & Resources

Show HN: Fireproof – local-first database with Git-like encrypted sync

"Hi, HN! As a cofounder of Couchbase, I pioneered mobile sync, and I’ve always wanted to bring the speed and reliability of local-first data to the web, incubating PouchDB among other efforts."

✨ Apps

Plot: Less overwhelming project management

"After 3 months moving to local-first and a specially-hard month migrating getplot.app to a monorepo, it’s all finally coming together. All to exterminate loading spinners from the experience. Now all navigations are instant." - @abraham.so

Local-only calories tracker app

"The project is a Vite app completely on the client. It uses PGlite as local postgres database to make the app work end-to-end on the user device."

trakkd - Reduce meetings by 30%

"Hey all, I have just launched trakkd - which is a meeting productivity app, aimed at reducing time spent in meetings by providing structure, clarity and accountability for every meeting. It is powered by PowerSync, so all your meeting notes have real time collaboration (you can ditch Google Docs now)." - Timo Behrens on Discord

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