2025.05.22

📰 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 talks." Berlin, 26-28th May 2025.

Stepan Parunashvili - InstantDB | devtools.fm (podcast episode)

"This week we're joined by Stepan Parunashvili, co-creator of InstantDB, a new database that's designed to make it easier to build local-first apps."

There's a new Tanstack package 👀 (video)

"Tanstack just dropped a new project, Tanstack DB. At first I was really excited about this, but the deeper I go the more skeptical I get..."

Sync Ghent (upcoming event)

"Come along to discuss building software on a sync engine / local-first architecture — where apps feel instant, work offline, and sync automatically in the background." Ghent, May 29th at 6pm GMT+2.

Stop using REST for state synchronization (2024)

This post from 2024 made the rounds on Hacker News this past week. "tl;dr: Most apps need state synchronization, not state transfer. We should replace REST and friends with proper state synchronization protocols where appropriate."

Expectations for local-first 2025

"It looks like the usual gang of speakers again this year with some exciting showcases such as Keyhive, an access control project for secure & decentralized collaboration. Also Patchwork: 'version control for everything'. I’m very psyched for this one, since version control of spreadsheets is a big pet peeve"

🛠️ Tools & Resources

Collaborative Text Editing without CRDTs or OT

"Collaborative text editing is arguably the hardest feature to implement in a collaborative app. Even if you use a central server and a fully general solution to optimistic local updates (server reconciliation), text editing in particular requires fancy algorithms - specifically, the core of a text-editing CRDT or OT. Or rather, that’s what I thought until recently."

Scrappy: make little apps for you and your friends

"This project is driven by a desire to reimagine software creation and use. As part of a growing movement variously termed 'small computing,' 'casual programming', and 'home-cooked software' we want to emancipate end-users" "You own your data. The data is stored locally and will only be used for nefarious purposes if its creator (you) wants to!"

Announcing Gemma 3n preview: powerful, efficient, mobile-first AI

"Privacy-First & Offline Ready: Local execution enables features that respect user privacy and function reliably, even without an internet connection."

✨ Apps

AIaW: AI as Workspace - An elegant AI chat client

"Data is stored locally first, accessible offline and loads instantly; Cloud synchronization available after login for cross-device syncing"

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