2026.02.12

📰 News & Discussions

Local-First in Production — FOSDEM 2026 Recap

"This talk was a production story, not a research talk — how we built Plane's collaborative Wiki on Yjs, the architecture choices we made, and the sharp edges we hit while shipping it for real users."

I Built a Context7 Local-First Alternative With Claude Code

"The result is Context — a local-first documentation tool for AI agents. No cloud. No rate limits. Sub-10ms queries. And the docs are portable .db files you build once and share with your whole team."

LoFi/34 community meetup (upcoming event)

LoFi/34 is scheduled for Tuesday February 24th at 8am PT. 3rd anniversary edition.

From 34% to 96%: The Porting Initiative Delivers - Hologram v0.7.0

"This means the vast majority of Elixir standard library functions needed for Phase 1 (full-stack web and basic local-first apps) now work in the browser."

🛠️ Tools & Resources

LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory

"Single Rust binary, ~27MB. All data stays on your machine — markdown files, SQLite indexes, and local embeddings. No cloud storage, no telemetry. Just cargo install localgpt." Also see Show HN

Building Your First RAG System

"To build this, we’re using a 'Local-First' approach. This means your data never leaves your computer-perfect for keeping your secret base coordinates (or private client info) safe."

CogDB

"A persistent graph database that lives inside your Python process." "Quick setup. No server. Runs in notebooks, apps, even your browser."

RAGnarok-AI

"Local-first RAG evaluation framework for LLM applications. 100% local, no API keys required."

Lore

"A local-first SDK for storing and retrieving structured lessons across agent runs. SQLite-backed, embedding-powered semantic search, automatic PII redaction."

SynapseDBA: The Privacy-Focused Database IDE

"All database operations run locally. Go fully offline with Ollama for air-gapped environments."

✨ Apps

Quiet

"While apps like Slack, Discord, and Signal use central servers, Quiet syncs messages directly between a team’s devices, over Tor, with no server required."

ELFA

"The European Commission is funding the ELFA consortium to build a local-first, end-to-end encrypted workspace suite. Core tools include documents, spreadsheets, email, calendar, chat, and video calls."

Ironpad

"Ironpad is a local-first, file-based project management system I've been building with AI. Rust backend (Axum), Vue 3 frontend, markdown files as the database, Git integration for versioning"

CloudSlash

"Local-first AWS forensic engine. Finds waste via dependency graph analysis and enables safe remediation with Terraform state restoration."

Mindwtr

"It is an open-source (MIT/AGPL), local-first implementation of the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology."

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