📰 News & Discussions Tether Launches Developer Grants Program to Fund Local-First AI and Payments Infrastructure "Most AI systems still rely on remote servers, requiring data to be sent off-device for processing, which adds latency, cost, and exposure. Tether is funding an alternative platform, QVAC, that runs directly on-device, where
📰 News & Discussions CRDTs for Free "Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) are one of the core technical building blocks behind Ossa's secure synchronization protocol. " DWeb Camp 2026 (upcoming event) "DWeb Camp 2026: Root Systems is a five-day gathering in nature for builders and dreamers dedicated
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/36 (Local-First) Community Meetup LoFi/36 took place on April 28, 2026 with talks by James Arthur ("Break the harness. Wire the loop."), Chad Fowler ("The Phoenix Architecture: Freeq, and the future of version control") and HanLin (Ranger) Chen ("Elastik: curl
📰 News & Discussions Patchwork Notes: Implementing a Local-First Task Framework "In the first lab note in this series, I introduced the task framework and motivated it with a few examples. In this note, I’ll give you a more concrete picture of the framework — the set of concepts you
📰 News & Discussions Offline should be the norm "Building local-first apps with CRDTs & Kotlin Multiplatform" From clobbered drafts to real-time sync "How Suga used the Zero sync engine to fix data overwrites and enable real-time multiplayer collaboration for engineering teams." Practical CRDTs by Schalk Venter
📰 News & Discussions Application Level Homoiconicity "Malleable software bends but doesn't break. Encoding behavior as data is a natural fit for sync engines and provides a fine-grained boundary for developers to safely expose parts of the application." My self-sovereign / local / private / secure LLM setup, April 2026
📰 News & Discussions Building More Resilient Local-First Software with atproto "atproto has the potential to become a rock-solid replacement for the most fragile part of any local-first app: the sync server." LoFi/35 (Local-First) Community Meetup LoFi/35 took place on March 31, 2026 with talks by Sai
📰 News & Discussions TanStack DB 0.6 Now Includes Persistence, Offline Support, and Hierarchical Data "With v0.6 of TanStack DB, we're bringing some highly anticipated features and improving the ergonomics for app development. You can now project normalized data into the same hierarchical shape as your
📰 News & Discussions The Feather Sync Engine: Building a Conflict-Resilient Offline-First Architecture "I've been deep in the trenches architecting Feather Sync, the offline-first synchronization engine powering the Wine ecosystem. This isn't just another sync layer—it's a fundamental rethinking of how data flows
📰 News & Discussions We are a year into rewriting SQLite. How is that going? | Turso "[T]he important metrics for database scalability today are how much data you can store, and how fast your queries are. But AI is about to introduce a new one: how many databases you
📰 News & Discussions Local-First Conf 2026: tickets on sale, CfP open "The theme of Local First Conf 2026: user empowerment in an age of fluid software". See also: Here's what you need to know about Local-First 2026 🛠️ Tools & Resources Turso v0.5.0 "Turso
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/34 Community Meetup The LoFi/34 community meetup took place on Tuesday February 24th, 2026, with talks by Martin Kleppmann ("Local-first software and geopolitical risk"), Nate Hardt ("Footnote: P2P tool for knowledge sharing"), and Brendan O'Brien ("Local-first from the