2026.10.22

📰 News & Discussions

Perplexity Computer now runs fully local on Mac

"Perplexity Computer runs fully local on Mac: Work across private files and native apps with AI that stays on your device"

The Future of Web Apps: Will AI Agents Generate UIs on the Fly?

"Rachel Lee Nabors, former React core team member, dives into the architecture and philosophy behind local-first applications, exploring how small language models (SLMs) running directly on-device can deliver privacy-focused, low-latency, and cost-effective alternatives to cloud-hosted LLM wrappers."

Local First | Hammer

"Use the computer you own, instead of paying to use someone else's. This was another founding principle of Hammer. As I mentioned in a previous blog post, much of the inspiration for Hammer came from living in a van, and trying to write while I was offline for extended periods of time."

🛠️ Tools & Resources

Iroh on tiny embedded devices

"We have made a lot of progress reducing the compiled size of iroh. Since iroh 1.3, you can use iroh from crates.io on any ESP32 or other embedded device with just 4 MiB of flash. See iroh-esp32-examples. This means that extremely tiny and cheap devices are now fully compatible with iroh."

Orbicus: Agentic software engineering on your device

"100% On-Device Privacy: Your code is indexed and analyzed on your local hardware. No telemetry, prompt logging, or third-party model training."

✨ Apps

Oxynote

"Self-hosted, open-source team wiki for runbooks and internal API docs. Live Prometheus and SQL charts run inside the page next to the text, and changes go through a draft with a diff and an approval. Apache-2.0, one Docker image." Using Yjs + Hocuspocus for real-time collaborative editing.

Koru: Your private workspace for thinking, writing, and AI.

"Write, organize and remember — without giving up control of your data. Open source, offline first, syncs directly between your devices."

HealthViewer

"HealthViewer imports your lab reports, charts every test over time, and keeps your medications alongside your results — in an encrypted file on your desktop, with no cloud account, no subscription, and no data sharing."

Glitr

"Chat without a company inbox. No Glitr account and no central chat server. Encryption runs on your device; you choose who you talk to."

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