2026.11.05

📰 News & Discussions

TanStack DB 1.0 RC1: Going All In on Oracles

"After eighteen months of development, beta testing, and user feedback, the API is powerful, production-ready, and stable. If you haven't used it yet, TanStack DB is a reactive client data framework that makes backend data feel local. Records from your API or sync engine become typed collections. Components query them for joined, filtered live results. Optimistic edits appear immediately and reconcile with the server later."

Doubling Down on Open Source: Updating PowerSync Service License to Apache 2.0

"We're changing the license for the PowerSync Service from FSL (source-available) to Apache 2.0 (open source)."

🛠️ Tools & Resources

A new iroh-gossip release and the road to 1.0

"iroh-gossip is a protocol to broadcast messages to a swarm of peers, without central coordination. It is one of the most used iroh protocols, and often forms the backbone for real-time communication between endpoints in apps."

TerminalLynx

"TerminalLynx organizes hundreds of SSH connections with tags and Smart Views, opens them in a built-in terminal, and syncs them between your devices and your team, peer to peer. No account, no cloud, no telemetry."

Tiles

"For sensitive knowledge work or personal tasks, your AI shouldn’t require you to trust a third party with your conversations and intellectual property. Run models locally, sync chats peer-to-peer with end-to-end encryption, and use social features, such as sharing chats, built on AT Protocol. Tiles gives you user-owned keys for your digital life with DIDs and UCANs, so your data and identity truly remain yours."

✨ Apps

AutoDoc

"Free, open-source meeting notes for Mac and Windows that also record your screen, so you can click a note and replay that moment. Transcription, notes and Ask AI run on your computer, recordings are encrypted at rest, and there is no account and no meeting bot."

TapScribe

"Mac app that records your mic and the Mac's audio from any meeting app, with no bot joining, and transcribes on-device. It also transcribes audio and video files. Transcripts sit next to the audio as plain local files and export as Markdown."

TournaStudio

"A tournament organizer. It stores records in IndexedDB, works offline after caching, and moves tournament data through files or snapshots. There's no application backend or live synchronization across devices."

Kimiko: Your local-first AI note taker for meetings & notes

"Capture meetings without cloud processing. Turn rough notes and conversations into clear summaries and suggested next steps, ask questions across your projects, and keep your notes private on your computer. For Apple silicon Mac and Windows. Local AI, with optional cloud providers."

How to Contribute

Anyone can contribute to Local-First News with a pull request. Instructions and guidelines available here.

Sponsors

Local-First News is sponsored by PowerSync. Interested in sponsoring? Get in touch