2026.01.22

đź“° News & Discussions

Loro Extended, or, Why I get excited about CRDTs

"A deep dive into distributed systems, local-first software, and the future of collaborative applications. A mock interview about Loro Extended, the state sync typescript library."

From science fiction to reality — you can build difficult things with LLMs now

"In just two weeks, I built SolidType, a browser-based parametric CAD editor with sketching, a real B-Rep kernel, collaboration features such as presence and follow mode, and AI that can generate geometry through tool calls against the same model that humans edit. " "CAD model: Lives in a Yjs document—mergeable, syncable, acts like a file format"

Local-First Is Actually a Governance Revolution

"This restores a property the web lost: local sovereignty. The user's device becomes a first-class data node, not a thin client waiting for permission."

Announcing Mastra 1.0, Kyle from ElectricSQL, Security Corner & News

"We talk with Kyle from ElectricSQL (and formerly Gatsby) about Durable Streams."

🛠️ Tools & Resources

Radicle 1.6.0 released

"Radicle is a peer-to-peer, local-first code collaboration stack built on Git."

Overworld: The Local World Modeling Company

"Simulate Anything on Anything - Overworld builds AI that dreams playable worlds — 60 FPS, sub-20ms latency, actually fun."

"SynapseLink is a high-performance, offline-first data synchronization library for Flutter."

p2panda version 0.5.0

"✨ We've just released p2panda version 0.5.0! ✨ The highlight is a completely new p2panda-net stack with local-first sync, confidential discovery, gossip, supervision and more."

✨ Apps

Retain

"A unified knowledge base for your AI conversations. Search, learn, and reflect across Claude Code, claude.ai, ChatGPT, and more." "Local-first: All data stored locally. Optional cloud features (web sync, AI analysis) connect to external services when enabled."

Dock: Team chat that doesn't suck

"Our technical infrastructure is our secret weapon. We built a custom sync engine from scratch with a local-first architecture—your messages sync instantly across devices while working offline, then seamlessly reconcile when you're back online. No bloated servers, no legacy overhead." See also Show HN

CodeMic: Record & share your coding sessions

"Local First & Open Source: Recordings are saved locally as JSON files. Share manually or publish on CodeMic.io. MIT licensed. View on GitHub."

Repere: Explore datasets too large for spreadsheets

"SQL-powered data exploration that runs entirely in your browser. No uploads. No server. No signup."

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