📰 News & Discussions The Limits of Generalized Sync: A Taxonomy of Architectures, Trade‑offs, and Decision Factors "Web applications increasingly compete on responsiveness, driving engineers to move data closer to the client. Sync engines promise reusable synchronization infrastructure, but whether that promise holds across application types remains an open
📰 News & Discussions P2P React: Local-First State, Shared Truth (talk video) Talk by Mikkel Malmberg at React Summit 2026 (June 11 - 16, 2026). "Most apps treat the server as truth. Peer-to-peer flips that: state starts local, users carry the data, and shared truth emerges without routing
📰 News & Discussions Mergeable Containers: Fixing Concurrent Child Creation | Loro "Two users are offline. Both add content to the same empty note. They come back online, sync finishes, and one user’s edits seem to disappear. [...] From the application’s point of view, this looks like data loss. This
📰 News & Discussions A Peek At Patchwork Progress | Ink & Switch "Patchwork is our collaborative, version-controlled, local-first, malleable software system. Over the past two years, it’s become the home for the majority of our team’s documents and prototypes. We live and work inside Patchwork every
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/36 (Local-First) Community Meetup LoFi/36 took place on May 26, 2026 with talks by Dondga Li ("Building a Cross-Platform Local-First GTD App as a Solo Dev"), Samson Ssali ("SEYFR - Send Your Files Right") and Bryan Reilly ("Local-
📰 News & Discussions AMD Powers Next-Generation Agent Computers with New Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform and Ryzen AI Max PRO 400 Series Processors "The new AMD Ryzen™ AI Halo capably runs models of up to 200 billion parameters, allowing developers to build, test and operate agentic AI applications
📰 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
📰 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
📰 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:
📰 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
📰 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
📰 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,