2025.04.03

📰 News & Discussions

The Hard Things About Sync

"Should you build or buy, or do you even need a sync engine at all? While there's no universal answer, I want to share my learnings from building a sync engine at Figma to help make sense of this technology, highlight some technical challenges of building your own, and suggest areas to consider when evaluating existing solutions."

Offline Sync Public Beta | Turso

"We're excited to announce that Turso Offline Sync is now available in public beta!" "With today's announcement, the local database will be able to accept writes that are as fast as a file, work offline, and later sync to Turso Cloud." See also HN discussion.

Radworks Meetup 01 (upcoming event)

"Who should join? Developers, researchers, and enthusiasts interested in open source, local first, peer-to-peer technologies, and decentralized development." Thursday, April 10, 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM GMT+2, Berlin

🛠️ Tools & Resources

Stop syncing everything

"What if your app could combine the simplicity of physical replication with the efficiency of logical replication? That’s the key idea behind Graft, the open-source transactional storage engine I’m launching today." See also HN discussion.

Soukai - A JavaScript Active Record library

"Local-first: Combining a Solid backend with local engines, you can create local-first apps. With history tracking and conflict resolution built-in thanks to CRDTs."

✨ Apps

TidGi - Customizable personal knowledge-base

"TidGi, a Node.js version of TiddlyDesktop (TiddlyWiki), can be used as a lightweight local-first note-taking app and knowledge base and also a blogging platform when used for example in conjunction with GitHub Pages as a backend." - @notes.lu

Slate - simple WYSIWYG Markdown editor

"Launching Slate – a local-first markdown editor you can use right in your browser, no login needed." - thetronjohnson on HN

Aiverything - Launcher to your everything

"Aiverything is a fast, AI-powered, local-first desktop tool that helps you find anything on your computer." - @launches.uicomet.com

Safe2PDF - Combine images into a PDF privately and securely

"Combines multiple images into a single PDF 100% local. No files are ever uploaded" "I'd love your thoughts, especially from devs who care about privacy, OSS, or local-first tools." - amosoraptor on HN

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