📰 News & Discussions LoFi/39 (Local-First) Community Meetup LoFi/39 took place on July 28, 2026 with talks by Talks by Jimmie Wang ("Myfield: Building Identity and Sync for Local-First Apps"), Kushagra Lakhwani ("ResearchPocket: Your Sync Server is LoFi") and Philip Schatz ("Sharing
📰 News & Discussions We're building Postgres in Rust. Using the LLVM of databases "Turso is becoming the LLVM of databases. One modern, reliable core; many database frontends compiled down onto it. SQLite was the first frontend. Postgres is next. Others will follow. But the end game is
📰 News & Discussions Work in Parallel, Without Fear Conflict Tolerance for Local-First Collaboration. Jonas Schürmann, Local-First Conf 2026, Lab Day, Berlin. The Path to Sovereign Data: Challenges and Priorities in Local-First Computing "Local-first computing advocates argued that 'data ownership' had to mean practical
📰 News & Discussions Right to Intelligence "Local AI is the next personal computer. Not a chatbot account. Not a rented API. A model you can run on your own machine, inspect, repair, improve, and use without asking a platform to stay online. That is the line RTI exists to
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/38 (Local-First) Community Meetup LoFi/38 took place on June 30, 2026 with talks by Kaichao Sun ("Smart Clients, Thin Server"), Malcolm Blaney ("Using Holster for local-first apps") and Niko Bonnieure ("ELFA: End-to-end encrypted local-first suite
📰 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/37 (Local-First) Community Meetup LoFi/37 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