2026.09.24

📰 News & Discussions

Local-First Conf Recap | Ink & Switch

"All of the Local-First Conf 2026 videos are published now, so it’s a great moment to share some reflections from the annual event."

LSREP: A Longitudinal State-Replay Protocol for Evaluating Conversational Memory, with ICE v2 as an Audited Local-First Architecture

"Conversational memory changes during use, so endpoint question answering alone cannot establish how a persistent state accumulates, ages, or incorporates revisions. We introduce LSREP, a Longitudinal State-Replay Evaluation Protocol combining ordered replay, explicit lifecycle schedules, repeated probes, evolving reference answers, and mechanism-fidelity checks. Its architectural case study is ICE v2, a local-first memory middleware with typed stores, retrieval fusion, and dynamic context budgets. "

Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol

"Radicle is a peer-to-peer, local-first code collaboration stack built on Git." "Two critical security vulnerabilities in the network protocol used by Radicle nodes were reported."

How local-first sync handles offline changes (updated)

"How Done Bear syncs offline changes: durable outboxes, server sequencing, safe retries, reconnect catch-up, and field-level conflict rules in a local-first app."

🛠️ Tools & Resources

Calimero

"Calimero is an open-source app platform for the Open Web, where data stays with the person, team, or company it belongs to — encrypted end to end and synced device to device. Not readable by the nodes that keep an app online, and not by us."

PhaseLock

"No more polling for new data. No more writing REST APIs. Define your data types and how to process them once, and reuse that in your web app, your mobile apps, and your backend workers."

Supapower

"Offline-first on Supabase without a sync service. A local PGlite database, two-way sync through the Data API and Realtime you already pay for, and your RLS policies as the sync rules."

✨ Apps

YZH Studio

"YZH Studio crafts high-craft Android utilities with 100% client-side SQLite storage and on-device intelligence. Your personal database records never leave your device."

Cueport: A local-first music player for DJs

"Do you own your music and want to play it anywhere? Cueport builds a library from Serato or a music folder, syncs your phone over your local network, and lets you add cues and edit sets on either device."

Hammer

"Own your book, build your world. Free and open source. Works offline, on every device you own, and every chapter stays a plain text file on your own disk."

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