📰 News & Discussions Put your database in the browser with Ben Holmes (podcast episode) "Ben Holmes, product engineer at Warp, joins PodRocket to talk about local-first web apps and what it takes to run a database directly in the browser. He breaks down how moving data closer to the
📰 News & Discussions The Hard Things About Sync "Should you build or buy, or do you even need a sync engine at all? While there's no universal answer, I want to share my learnings from building a sync engine at Figma to help make sense of this
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/24 Community Meetup LoFi/24 took place on March 25, 2025, with talks by Fraol Lemecha ("Using hf/tokenizers in React Native"), Mason Simon ("DIPLOMATIC — Single-Player Sync") and Dan Wexler ("Local-first Audio Search for Professionals") A synchronization engine for everyone
📰 News & Discussions Vancouver Hack Day - Personal AI "Own your AI! With open models becoming more and more powerful, what new types of applications can we create with AI agents that run securely and privately on our own devices and data? Join us on March 29th, 2025 for
📰 News & Discussions Why Local-First Software Is the Future and what are its Limitations "By allowing data to live on the client and only syncing with a server or other peers when needed, local-first apps can deliver a user experience that is fast, resilient, and privacy-friendly." See also
📰 News & Discussions Aaron Boodman on Building Zero, Local-First, and Living in Hawaii - Tomorrow E126 (podcast) "Aaron Boodman joins us to chat about his tech journey from building Greasemonkey, working on Google Chrome, being obsessed with sync on the web, Replicache, to his new project, Zero." Privacy-first
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/23 Community Meetup (talk videos) The LoFi/23 community meetup took place on Tuesday February 25th 2025, with talks by James Pearce ("Understanding the local-first jigsaw"), Jake Lazzaroff ("Modeling state for local-first apps") and Tom Larkworthy ("Local-firstifying Observable Notebooks"). localfirst.
📰 News & Discussions Roomy Deep Dive "A technical deep dive on how Roomy chat works, combining ATProto and Automerge to create a resource-efficient group chat." "I worked on Figma's sync engine LiveGraph and before that Meteor" X thread from @imslavko regarding Figma's
📰 News & Discussions Epsio, IVMs, and Differential Dataflow With Gilad Kleinman "Gilad Kleinman, CEO of Epsio, talks with me about incremental view maintenance (IVM). We discuss use cases, the history of IVM, how Epsio is different, and where the field is headed." Frontend, Local-First, Sync Engines "Web
📰 News & Discussions WASM64: A Local Computing Gateway "In just a few weeks, the latest updates to Chrome and Firefox will quietly unlock a new trajectory for local computing. WASM64—the long-awaited upgrade to WebAssembly—will become a reality." How Startup Founders Should Think About Local-First Dev "
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/22 Community Meetup The LoFi/22 community meetup took place on Tuesday January 28th 2025, with talks by Hakan Shehu ("Building Colanode"), Michiel de Jong ("Local-first personal data exporting and applications") and Aaron Boodman ("Introducing Zero"). How Local-First Development Is
📰 News & Discussions Client state management, sync engines, and Foundry "What we really want is declarative data synchronization. React lets us describe how we want our UI to look as a function of our data, and it uses a reconciliation algorithm to efficiently coordinate updates to our UI. In