2026.10.29

📰 News & Discussions

Present your work at upcoming FOSDEM conference

From @niko-ng: "FOSDEM (biggest Free and Open Source conference in Europe) will host, for the second time this year, a devroom/track specialized in open source Local First software! You are all welcome to propose your talk, demo, keynote as the CfP is now open, for 40 days. The program will then be announced here too. Looking forward meeting you all in Brussels at the end of January 2027 for a full-day conference. Last year was a real success!"

LoFi/42 (Local-First) Community Meetup

LoFi/42 took place on October 27, 2026 with talks by Steven Liechti ("Rust, iroh and CRDTs in a Local-first native workspace"), Kushagar Goel, ("Bring local-first to your backend") and Schalk Venter ("Local Curious: Exploring Local-First without the commitment").

Local-First Means Three Different Things

"Everyone uses the word for something different, and when I describe what I'm building, people hear whichever meaning they already have in mind. So this post is about that problem. Where the three meanings come from, why they split, and what local-first actually fixes."

Work in Parallel, Without Fear: Conflict Tolerance for Local-First Collaboration

"This is a slightly extended version of my Local-First Conf 2026 talk (which was recorded), with a short introduction to CRDTs and more demos."

Inside My Dark Software Factory: How Leaf Runs Locally

"How I rebuilt Leaf as a local-first Level 5 dark software factory using adversarial validation, role-scoped WebSocket rooms, and deterministic CI/CD tasks."

AshRemote + AshMultiDataLayer - Barnabas Jovanovics | AshConf 2026

In this AshConf 2026 talk, Barnabas Jovanovics presents AshRemote and AshMultiDataLayer, explaining how these extensions enhance the Ash Framework by enabling remote resource integration and unified handling of multiple data backends.

🛠️ Tools & Resources

pagedb

"A 100 GB database in R2, served by one Durable Object, with live queries in every tab."

✨ Apps

Liatir: Bioinformatics on your machine. Under your control.

"An open-source desktop app that runs bioinformatics tools, AI models and pipelines on your own computer. The models install in one click instead of a day of conda, Docker and CUDA versions — and nothing you open ever leaves the machine."

Rowtine: Your knitting and crochet projects over time.

"It works offline and keeps your data on your phone — no account to create, no data collection, no server hoovering up your projects. You, and only you, choose a continuous backup folder if you want one."

Tenivel: Your Finances. Your Control.

"Forgotten subscriptions, unconscious habits, small amounts that add up. Tenivel makes them visible — on your computer, without anyone looking over your shoulder."

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