2026.06.11
đź“° News & Discussions
Mergeable Containers: Fixing Concurrent Child Creation | Loro
"Two users are offline. Both add content to the same empty note. They come back online, sync finishes, and one user’s edits seem to disappear. [...] From the application’s point of view, this looks like data loss. This is a classic problem in JSON-like CRDTs. Users have run into versions of it in the Loro, Yjs, and Automerge communities. [...] Loro now solves this with Mergeable Containers."
Instant by default, multiplayer by design
"A deep dive into the sync layer that makes Plain feel fast and collaborative. The browser holds a live replica of the slice of Postgres it's looking at, and edits documents as CRDTs. Two sync engines, one principle: subscribe to state, not endpoints. Here's how it works, end to end."
Local-First Architecture with Electric SQL
"Got a chance to speak at PG DATA 2026 about Local-First Architecture and how we introduced offline capabilities into an existing Django + Postgres + Flutter stack using @ElectricSQL" Link to accompanying article
Introducing the Third Generation of Apple’s Foundation Models
"One area of deep innovation is our most powerful on-device model, AFM 3 Core Advanced. Traditional large language models—whether dense or sparsely activated—require all weights to reside in active memory (DRAM), creating a massive footprint that limits scalability on consumer hardware. To break this barrier, AFM 3 Core Advanced introduces a novel sparsely activated architecture built on Instruction-Following Pruning (IFP), a technique developed by Apple researchers"
Introducing Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model
"Gemma 4 12B is designed to bring high-performance multimodal intelligence directly to your laptop, combining mobile-first efficiency with advanced reasoning."
🛠️ Tools & Resources
Local-first AI Agents in C#: Foundry Local, MEAI, and Microsoft Agent Framework
"I wanted a clean, non-REST, in-process integration where: Foundry Local stays local and private. My app code uses standard MEAI abstractions (IChatClient). The same IChatClient can be reused by Microsoft Agent Framework."
mnemo: Local-first AI memory layer for any LLM
"mnemo is a sidecar service that watches every conversation you feed it, extracts named entities and relationships using an LLM, builds a persistent knowledge graph in SQLite, and injects relevant context back into future prompts — automatically, in under 50ms. It works with Ollama (fully local, free), OpenAI, Anthropic, or any OpenAI-compatible API. It ships as a single static binary with zero cloud dependency."
AgentGraphed
"Local-first history, search, and analytics for Claude Code and Codex. Find old sessions, resume unfinished work, search past conversations, and see usage across every AI coding project on your machine. No login. No cloud. Nothing leaves your computer."
✨ Apps
Phonostack
"Open-source, local-first tools for organizing, stacking, tagging, and multiplying sound libraries."
AnythingLLM: The all-in-one AI application
"AnythingLLM comes with sensible and locally running defaults for your LLM, embedder, vector database, and storage and agents. Nothing is shared unless you allow it."
PlainBytes Redactor
"A privacy-first desktop PDF redaction tool for legal, finance, audit, and privacy-sensitive workflows. No uploads. No accounts. Just detect, review, and physically redact — fully on your device."
Artifold
"A local-first library for the stuff you make with AI. Index, search, preview, share — and use your past work as the style guide for your next one."
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