📰 News & Discussions Before you build a sync engine "For the last couple of years I’ve been building Flex, a visual editor at Ceros where several people, and more recently AI agents, edit the same document at the same time. A big part of that work has been
📰 News & Discussions TanStack DB 1.0 RC1: Going All In on Oracles "After eighteen months of development, beta testing, and user feedback, the API is powerful, production-ready, and stable. If you haven't used it yet, TanStack DB is a reactive client data framework that makes
📰 News & Discussions Present your work at upcoming FOSDEM conference From @niko-ng: "FOSDEM (biggest Free and Open Source conference in Europe) will host, for the second time this year, a devroom/track specialized in open source Local First software! You are all welcome to propose your talk, demo,
📰 News & Discussions Perplexity Computer now runs fully local on Mac "Perplexity Computer runs fully local on Mac: Work across private files and native apps with AI that stays on your device" The Future of Web Apps: Will AI Agents Generate UIs on the Fly? "Rachel Lee
📰 News & Discussions Iroh global content discovery "We now have a system for global content discovery of BLAKE3 hashed content addressed data. It is far from perfect, but it's a start." Python SDK Preview: Sync for Robots and AI at the Edge | Ditto "Today, Ditto&
📰 News & Discussions Governed Crossing: first live crossing records Update from jediwright on Governed Crossing: "A follow-up to last week's draft lexicons: the repo now points to a real signed intent and completion pair published on AT Protocol under the draft lexicons, with a small CLI
📰 News & Discussions Design Engineering with Maggie Appleton (podcast episode) Maggie Appleton discusses local-first as a philosophy for software development to empower 'barefoot developers' and protect user data sovereignty. She argues that because many people lack deep engineering foundations, they are at risk of losing their data
📰 News & Discussions Local-First Conf Recap | Ink & Switch "All of the Local-First Conf 2026 videos are published now, so it’s a great moment to share some reflections from the annual event." LSREP: A Longitudinal State-Replay Protocol for Evaluating Conversational Memory, with ICE v2
📰 News & Discussions Substract: ideas for a personal, local-first database "I’m currently brainstorming/prototyping 'Substract', a triple store CRDT to build personal, local-first software. The ideas here aren’t particularly original; this is just my own re-packaging of things I’ve been interested
📰 News & Discussions Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own "[funes] is a durable memory layer for your agents (Claude Code, Codex, pi, and Hermes). It is built from the sessions already on your machine. It works locally and becomes part of your agent's normal workflow
📰 News & Discussions Scott Jenson on Evolving Desktop OS, Local-First, & Agentic UX "In this episode, Scott Jenson, a veteran UX designer known for his work on the Macintosh, Google Maps, and Chrome examines the long-term stagnation of desktop operating systems and the limitations of current mobile
📰 News & Discussions We built a health app with no server "Oi Studios on shipping an iOS health app with no HTTP client anywhere in the codebase: HealthKit as the source, SwiftData on device, and a two-partition store where HealthKit-derived models stay permanently local while user-authored