📰 News & Discussions The Window for Local-First AI (Before the Defaults Ship) "There is a moment in every technological shift when the future is still negotiable. That moment has a shelf life. For personal AI, we are in it now. [...] [T]he technology for local-first alternatives is
📰 News & Discussions Local First devroom at FOSDEM'26 conference in Brussels: the program is out! "That's your gift for Christmas edition: an 8 hours lineup full of the best projects, frameworks, talks, and speakers! 22 talks, by 25 speakers. You can't miss the
📰 News & Discussions A first look at local-first Feathers "The story of the Feathers JS Automerge integration with an example for a local-first real-time app without a backend." - David Luecke ChEffect - Part 10 "A Local-First App built with Effect & LiveStore By Maxwell
📰 News & Discussions Sync Conf 2025 talk videos Videos of talk recordings from Sync Conf 2025 have been published on YouTube. Maybe we don't need a server "Have you heard of syncthing ? It syncs a folder between devices, like Dropbox, without the need for someone else'
📰 News & Discussions “The local-first rebellion”: How Home Assistant became the most important project in your house "Home Assistant is now running in more than 2 million households, orchestrating everything from thermostats and door locks to motion sensors and lighting. All on users’ own hardware, not the cloud.
📰 News & Discussions Present your work at FOSDEM conference in Brussels "8 more days to submit your proposal to the Local-First devroom at the upcoming FOSDEM (biggest Free and Open Source conference in Europe)! Deadline is 5th of December. If you are into local first apps or frameworks
📰 News & Discussions Convex raises $24M to reinvent backends "Sync is a central part of Convex's vision. But when developers want instant, automatic, optimistic local interaction with their app data, we currently offer little help. We aim to ship a Convex-flavored take on local-first that
📰 News & Discussions TanStack DB 0.5 — Query-Driven Sync "We're releasing TanStack DB 0.5 today with Query-Driven Sync — a feature that fundamentally changes how you think about loading data." Syntax.fm #954: Fullstack TanStack! The Scoop with Tanner Linsley (podcast episode) "Wes
📰 News & Discussions Sync Conf 2025 (upcoming event) "Sync Conf is a boutique conference on the future of real-time, collaborative, agentic software development." November 12th, San Francisco. Local-first mobile app meetup with Expo and InstantDB "Before SyncConf kicks off on November 12th, join a lot
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/31 Community Meetup The LoFi/31 community meetup took place on Tuesday October 28th, 2025, with talks by Tim Hampson ("Local Data: Design is everything"), Pablo Mayrgundter ("Bldrs.ai: browser-based OSS CAD engine with AI integration"), and Yonatan Feleke ("Sync
📰 News & Discussions Reviewing the Turso Beta week "Turso, the rewrite of SQLite is now in Beta. We expect a production ready to be out in a matter of months. But it already has the right set of capabilities to show what modern databoxes need to offer." Fallout
📰 News & Discussions Building native-grade web apps with synced data - Johannes Schickling @ ViteConf 2025 Talk by Johannes Schickling at ViteConf 2025. Currently available in live stream replay @ 05:32:00 (registration required). See also demo on X LiveStore Hands-on #2: Work Squared (upcoming event) "Continuing the real-