📰 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
📰 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
📰 News & Discussions Local-First Conf 2025 Announced "Based on all the great feedback for last year, we've decided to extend the conference to 2 full days of talks covering the latest technologies and ideas in local-first." – @schickling.dev localfirst.fm #19 – Brooklyn Zelenka: UCAN,
📰 News & Discussions Local-first client database migrations "Local database migrations is a required feature for all local-first apps. This example shows a strategy on how with Pglite using Drizzle and Effect." By @SandroMaglione Back to Basics: Why We Chose Long Polling Over WebSockets "Like many
📰 News & Discussions localfirst.fm special episode: Apps vs Files with Gordon Brander, Peter van Hardenberg & Jess Martin "This is a special episode which was recorded as a Twitter space conversation between Gordon Brander, Peter Van Hardenberg, and Jess Martin. This conversation explores the ideas and trade offs
📰 News & Discussions How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster "This is the fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x faster for analytical queries." See also HN discussion. Local-First Berlin #2 (video playlist of talks) Video recordings of talks by James
📰 News & Discussions Vancouver DWeb Local-First Weekend (upcoming event) A weekend of talks, shared learning and coding on January 11th and 12th 2025 at Z-Space in Vancouver. We'll learn about the broader DWeb movement, local-first technologies we can use right now, and hack on some
📰 News & Discussions Lies I was Told About Collaborative Editing, Part 1: Algorithms for offline editing "[D]espite the marketing copy, blog posts, and technical papers stating otherwise, [...] collaborative editing algorithms provide a systematically poor offline editing experience." "But, the news is not all bad. We are
📰 News & Discussions localfirst.fm #18 – James Arthur: ElectricSQL, read-path syncing, PGLite "The guest of this episode is James Arthur, founder and CEO of Electric SQL, a Postgres-centric sync engine for local-first apps. This conversation will dive deep into how Electric works and explore its design
📣 Local-First News has migrated to Ghost! Local-First News is now using Ghost for site hosting, member management and email. Nothing changes for subscribers, except the added ability to comment on posts. 📰 News & Discussions LoFi/21 community meetup LoFi/21 was held on Tuesday November 26th at 8am
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/21 community meetup (upcoming event) LoFi/21 is scheduled for Tuesday November 26th at 8am PT, with talks by Felicia Chang (@felchang), from @jamsockethq, Sahil Lalani (@SahilLalani0) and Zixuan Chen (zx_loro) from @loro_dev. Local-First News is on Bluesky 🦋 An active local-first community
📰 News & Discussions localfirst.fm #17 – Kyle Simpson: Local-first identity "The guest of this episode is Kyle Simpson, a prolific JavaScript engineer and author of the book You Don’t Know JS. Over the past years, Kyle has been researching user identity and encryption in a local-first