2025.12.25
đź“° News & Discussions
Local First devroom at FOSDEM'26 conference in Brussels: the program is out!
"That's your gift for Christmas edition: an 8 hours lineup full of the best projects, frameworks, talks, and speakers! 22 talks, by 25 speakers. You can't miss the first ever Local-First devroom at the upcoming FOSDEM (biggest Free and Open Source conference in Europe). It will happen on the 1st of February 2026. If you are into local first apps or frameworks, sync protocols, CRDT libraries or UX, join us in person or remotely, there will be a live streaming. For those coming to Brussels, we will have an after party with drinks just after the devroom concluded. More info at openlocalfirst.org See you soon!" - Niko at NextGraph.org
Realtime Real Talk AMA with Convex Founders Jamie and James
AMA with Jamie Turner and James Cowling of Convex
Phoenix sync with ElectricSQL (talk recording)
Real-time sync for Postgres-backed Phoenix applications. Code BEAM America 2025
Sigma launches privacy-focused AI-native browser with local LLM
"Eclipse from Sigma embeds a local large language model that can function offline and keeps all the user’s data, questions and chat completely local. The company argues that this approach is designed to eliminate hidden behaviors or backdoors that could change answers or leak user information through third-party services."
🛠️ Tools & Resources
Durable Streams 0.1.0 & State Protocol
"Durable Streams gives you ordered, resumable byte delivery. The State Protocol adds semantic meaning: insert, update, and delete operations on typed entities. It's the vocabulary you need for database-style sync—presence tracking, chat rooms, feature flags, collaborative state—without prescribing how you store or query that state."
🧪 Hacking with Durable Streams + Rivet Actors (video)
"Musings on Rivet Actors and Durable Streams"
✨ Apps
The Ski Black Box
"A Ski Black Box is a local, offline performance recorder that captures the complete picture of every run. Your movement dynamics. Your GPS tracks. Your technique scores. All stored locally, owned entirely by you."
Productlane: Customer support for modern companies
"Lightning fast: The first support system with a sync engine, keeping interactions below 50ms."
Lilo Write – Local-first spatial writing (Apple Notes/whiteboard baby)
"The feats: Local-first, your data stays in your browser. Export anytime. No account, no tracking. Standard JSON format."
Lokus
"Lokus is the local-first, AI-powered knowledge base that feels like an extension of your brain. No loading spinners, just flow."
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