Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole "In most instances the concept is beautifully simple: instead of your app being a fancy form that sends data to a server, it has it’s own local database. Sometimes the server is just another client to sync with. It can
📰 News & Discussions Local-first search "Local-first applications do have major benefits for users but I think the DX claims fall off a cliff as your application grows in complexity or volume of data. In other words, the more state your app manages, the harder your life as a developer
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/28 Community Meetup (talks/video) The LoFi/28 community meetup took place on Tuesday July 29th, with talks by David Fahlander ("Why I Built Dexie"), Carl Sverre ("Replication three ways: logical, physical and Graft") and Jay Meistrich ("High performance local-first with
📰 News & Discussions Offline-first Architecture - How to survive without the internet? - Zixuan Liu & Ahlam Aatif "During this presentation, we’ll share our insights from building a complex ticketing application based on offline-first architecture, discuss the challenges encountered along the way, and highlight some of the solutions
📰 News & Discussions Local-first web application architecture "This architecture would be a cloud vendor's worst nightmare if it ever became popular, as they cannot earn a dime from it (aside from the basic cloud drive pennies). Thankfully for them, it is impossible to monetize for the company
📰 News & Discussions Local-first software (2019) - Hacker News The Local-First Software essay by Ink & Switch did the rounds on Hacker News again and generated a lot of discussion. Extreme Native Perf on the Web with Superhuman - Syntax.fm #918 (podcast episode) "Wes and Scott talk with
📰 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