2026.04.30

📰 News & Discussions

LoFi/36 (Local-First) Community Meetup

LoFi/36 took place on April 28, 2026 with talks by James Arthur ("Break the harness. Wire the loop."), Chad Fowler ("The Phoenix Architecture: Freeq, and the future of version control") and HanLin (Ranger) Chen ("Elastik: curl is all you need").

How CRDTs and sync engines keep realtime lists ordered with fractional indexing

"An interactive guide to fractional indexing, how it works, and how it’s used to power multiplayer lists in Figma and Liveblocks."

The front-end architecture trilemma: Reactivity vs. hypermedia vs. local-first apps

"Between the dominance of reactive frameworks, the hypermedia-driven simplicity of true REST, and the decentralized resilience of SQL everywhere, developers are no longer just choosing a library, they are choosing where the data lives: at the server, at the client, or both."

🛠️ Tools & Resources

Turso Sync: a much, much, much better way to sync

"[R]egardless of the situation and use case, you should be using Turso, not libSQL, if you are using sync. We are finally at the point in which I am comfortable making this recommendation and I am so happy this day has come."

Introducing Electric Agents — the agent platfom built on sync

"Agents are not compute. Agents are data. Multi-agent is a sync problem. Today we're introducing Electric Agents, the first agent platform built on sync."

TanStack DB 0.6 Now Includes Persistence, Offline Support, and Hierarchical Data

"TanStack DB 0.6 adds SQLite-backed persistence across runtimes, hierarchical includes for projecting normalized data into UI-shaped trees, reactive effects, virtual props for sync state, and more."

✨ Apps

Atomic: Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base

"Self-organizing notes with semantic search, wiki synthesis, and agentic chat — all open source. Run it as a desktop app, or self-host a server and sync every device. Your notes, your hardware, your model." See also Show HN

Phi Browser

"Personal data [...] remains behind a velvet rope, air-locked and local-first."

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