2025.10.23

📰 News & Discussions

Reviewing the Turso Beta week

"Turso, the rewrite of SQLite is now in Beta. We expect a production ready to be out in a matter of months. But it already has the right set of capabilities to show what modern databoxes need to offer."

Fallout from the AWS outage: Smart mattresses go rogue

The recent AWS outage led to discussion of the local-first Home Assistant on Hacker News.

🛠️ Tools & Resources

CloudKit Sync: Assets | Point-Free

"We introduce a new feature to our reminders app: cover images for each reminders list. This pushes us to create a brand new database table to synchronize, and allows us to demonstrate how SQLiteData seamlessly handles binary blobs by converting them to CloudKit assets under the hood."

Datum — Offline-First Data Synchronization Framework for Dart & Flutter

"Datum unifies your local database and remote backend with intelligent syncing, automatic conflict resolution, and real-time data updates — all through a single, type-safe API."

✨ Apps

mTOR

"I'm working on mTOR, a free, science-based workout tracker I built to automate progressive overload. It's a local-first PWA that works completely offline, syncs encrypted between your devices using passwordless passkeys, and allows for plan sharing via a simple link." - vmcallsm on HN

ethui: An Ethereum toolkit

"Local-first: ethui works directly with anvil and forge to provide a fast and reproducible environment"

Budgetist

"Local-first PWA - your complete financial history lives on your devices & the app can work fully offline. Optional budget data sync between all user devices through our intermediate server" - valsinats on HN

August: Artificial helpers for your team

"Released the first version of my app. It's built on top of Zero."

Bearli: pregnancy tracker

"works without sign-up; local-first (if you don’t sign up, no data ever leaves your device); end-to-end encryption if you do decide to sign up" - d1sxeyes on HN

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