📰 News & Discussions Open sourcing the Liveblocks sync engine and dev server "We’ve open sourced our server stack. Starting today, you can run and test your multiplayer applications with a Liveblocks server locally." LoFi/34 community meetup (upcoming event) LoFi/34 is scheduled for Tuesday February 24th
📰 News & Discussions Local-First in Production — FOSDEM 2026 Recap "This talk was a production story, not a research talk — how we built Plane's collaborative Wiki on Yjs, the architecture choices we made, and the sharp edges we hit while shipping it for real users." I Built
đź“° News & Discussions Local-First Conf 2026 announced 12th - 14th July 2026 in Berlin. Early bird tickets availability still to be announced. Local-First Software: Taking Back Control of Our Data | a mini-doc "In this mini-documentary, we talk to the builders and early-adopters of Local-First software about why it emerged,
đź“° News & Discussions Local First devroom at FOSDEM'26 conference in Brussels: Livestream on Sunday From Niko at NextGraph.org: "In 2 days from now, the Local First devroom at FOSDEM will be live! For those who cannot come to Brussels in person to attend 8 hours of
📰 News & Discussions Loro Extended, or, Why I get excited about CRDTs "A deep dive into distributed systems, local-first software, and the future of collaborative applications. A mock interview about Loro Extended, the state sync typescript library." From science fiction to reality — you can build difficult things with
đź“° News & Discussions Peter van Hardenberg - Ink and Switch, Automerge | devtools.fm (podcast episode) "This week we're joined by Peter van Hardenberg (PVH), director of the Ink and Switch research lab and co-author of the seminal Local First Software paper. Peter shares the origin story of
📰 News & Discussions LocalFirst: You Keep Using That Word "'local-first' isn’t a binary label we can cleanly apply to something. It’s more of a spectrum." See also HN discussion I analyzed 9,300+ "I wish there was an app for this" posts
đź“° 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 maturing now.
đź“° 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
đź“° 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 Brown &
đź“° 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. The