2026.07.02

📰 News & Discussions

LoFi/38 (Local-First) Community Meetup

LoFi/38 took place on June 30, 2026 with talks by Kaichao Sun ("Smart Clients, Thin Server"), Malcolm Blaney ("Using Holster for local-first apps") and Niko Bonnieure ("ELFA: End-to-end encrypted local-first suite of apps").

The Case for Physical Media Ownership

"Ownership is clearest when the copy remains under the buyer's control." See also HN discussion

Architectural Patterns: Moving Beyond Cloud-Native to Local-First - Insights from Adam Wiggins

"In this episode, Heroku co-founder and Ink & Switch founder Adam Wiggins argues for a 'local-first' architecture that reconciles cloud-based collaboration with the performance and data ownership of local software. He explores the role of CRDTs and version control primitives in non-code domains, and examines how a hybrid AI future might leverage local models for core productivity tasks, challenging the current over-reliance on centralised cloud compute."

The Buzz Around Backstitch | Ink & Switch

"Local First Conf is just two weeks away. We’re queuing up a slate of announcements and deep-dives on Patchwork, PlayBook, Backstitch, and more."

🛠️ Tools & Resources

lilbee

"A local AI search engine for your files, your code, and the web. lilbee finds, runs, and manages the models, then talks to everything you point it at." "It runs on your hardware. Your files stay on disk, and a cloud model runs only when you pick one. No Docker, no servers, no web stack to maintain, just one file you run on demand."

Lunora

"Define a schema, write a function — Lunora gives you a typed, live-syncing API on Cloudflare's edge. No glue code, no infrastructure to manage."

Avery

"Describe what you want in one plain sentence — Avery fabricates a deterministic agent that's private, auditable, and yours." "Private by default, air-gapped ready. Your data and your models never leave your machine unless you grant it."

✨ Apps

OpenMed

"Local-first healthcare AI that never leaves the device"

REKOS

"REKOS is a terminal-native passive OSINT CLI for local-first public-source investigation workspaces. It helps organize targets, evidence, source outputs, entities, relationships, normalized findings, and correlation-quality scores in a SQLite-backed case folder."

OpenBrief

"A local-first workspace that turns long videos and audio into clear, shareable briefs—summaries, answers, and notes you can actually use." See also HN discussion

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