2025.05.15

📰 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—how we can combine data from multiple local-first applications, privately and seamlessly"

Our Flag Means Local-First (Picture Me Coding podcast)

"This week Mike and Erik talk about the local-first software movement. There's a pretty cool paper about it from 2019 called 'Local-First Software: You Own Your Data, in spite of the Cloud', and there's also a podcast, a company, and various projects. Come get inspired to build stuff!"

Introducing Phoenix.Sync - ElixirConf EU 2025 (upcoming conference talk)

"This talk introduces Phoenix.Sync, a new library that adds real-time sync to Postgres-backed Phoenix applications." - Friday 16 May, 09:10am CEST/UTC+02, Kraków & Virtual

🛠️ Tools & Resources

Yjs - An Engine for Modern Collaborative Apps

"Yjs is a powerful JS library that enables real-time collaboration in web applications without requiring a central server. It embeds conflict resolution directly in the data structure, allowing for true offline-first experiences where users can work locally and sync automatically when online. In this article, I dive deep into how Yjs works under the hood."

TanStack DB

"TanStack DB extends TanStack Query with collections, live queries and optimistic mutations that keep your UI reactive, consistent and blazing fast"

SignalDB: Local-First JavaScript Database with Signals

"Build offline-capable apps that stay fast and responsive, with real-time sync across any backend."

Use Drizzle Transactions in Zero

"This level of control and integration with existing data access patterns on the server is a really strong point for Zero, especially for complex applications or teams already invested in a particular ORM."

✨ Apps

git-bug: a decentralized issue tracker

"git-bug is a standalone, distributed, offline-first issue management tool that embeds issues, comments, and more as objects in a git repository (not files!), enabling you to push and pull them to one or more remotes."

Getter: Weight Loss Tracker

"End-to-end encrypted, offline-first - Optional encrypted cloud backup (Cloudflare R2)" - Brilliant-Parsnip-51 on Reddit

Local development for Prisma Postgres

"Testing your database shouldn’t depend on cloud access. [...] Local Prisma Postgres is based on PGLite"

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