📰 News & Discussions Practical Local-First Software with Automerge - Peter van Hardenberg (talk video) "In this talk, we'll learn about local-first software: what it is, how it works, and when does and doesn't makes sense, and we'll also build a simple application with
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/27 Community Meetup (talks video) The LoFi/27 community meetup took place on Tuesday June 24th, 2025, with talks by James Arthur ("The Sync Stack"), Rashid Aziz ("Introducing create-lofi-app") and George Anthoi ("A fair novelist writing software"). Sync London (upcoming
📰 News & Discussions localfirst.fm #26 — Adam Fish: Ditto, Realm (podcast episode) "The guest of this episode is Adam Fish, co-founder and CEO of Ditto, a end-to-end syncing platform with a focus on resilient connectivity. In this conversation Adam shares the origin story of Ditto, his prior related work
📰 News & Discussions Local-First Conf 2025 videos First batch of videos of talks from this year's Local-First Conf. My takeaways from this year's @localfirstconf.com Reflections from Adam Wiggins on Local-First Conf 2025. Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps "Inspired
📰 News & Discussions Technically Speaking: How $400 million Runs on a 25 Person Team "Let me first start off by saying, Linear has done something incredible and worthy of emulating. The reason I’m diving into the nuts and bolts of their sync engine is because I am inspired
This was a big week for local-first software with Local-First Conf 2025 taking place in Berlin, and a couple of significant releases dropping. 📰 News & Discussions Local First Conf 2025 Brief Notes and photos from all the talks at this week's Local-First Conf 2025 in Berlin. Meet #TanStack
📰 News & Discussions Local-First Conf 2025 (upcoming event) "Join us for the second edition of Local-First Conf. Connect with a rapidly-growing community in an intimate setting. This year, the conference spans 3 days. May 26th is dedicated to workshops and community sessions, while the following 2 days feature outstanding
📰 News & Discussions Exploring interoperability & composability for local-first software "This is the third exploration connecting local-first software with the AT Protocol (atproto). Previously, I explored how atproto can enable new functionality for local-first software by providing distribution and legibility. Now, I'll focus on interoperability and composability—
📰 News & Discussions Beyond the Cloud: The Local-First Software Revolution • Brooklyn Zelenka & Julian Wood • GOTO 2025 "Distributed systems researcher Brooklyn Zelenka unpacks the paradigm shift of local-first computing, where applications primarily run on users' devices and synchronize seamlessly without central servers." localfirst.fm #24 – Ben Holmes:
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/25 Community Meetup The LoFi/25 community meetup took place on Tuesday April 29th, 2025, with talks by Johannes Schickling ("Local-first event sourcing"), Alexander Komyagin ("Data API: AI-native developer toolkit"), and Henok Ademtew ("Running big language models on mobile and web&
📰 News & Discussions Making React Fun Again with Sync – Aaron Boodman, React Miami 2025 (talk video) "Aaron Boodman from Rocicorp discussing sync engines. April 18, 2025, React Miami." Building a serverless database replica with Carl Sverre (interview) "In this episode, Carl Sverre and I discuss why syncing
📰 News & Discussions Carl Sverre on "Storing small things in big places" (talk video) "Carl Sverre of SQLSync introduces Graft: an open-source transactional storage engine optimized for lazy, partial, and strongly consistent replication — perfect for edge, offline-first, and distributed applications." localfirst.fm #23 – Sujay Jayakar: Dropbox,
📰 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