📰 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
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/24 Community Meetup LoFi/24 took place on March 25, 2025, with talks by Fraol Lemecha ("Using hf/tokenizers in React Native"), Mason Simon ("DIPLOMATIC — Single-Player Sync") and Dan Wexler ("Local-first Audio Search for Professionals") A synchronization engine for everyone
📰 News & Discussions Vancouver Hack Day - Personal AI "Own your AI! With open models becoming more and more powerful, what new types of applications can we create with AI agents that run securely and privately on our own devices and data? Join us on March 29th, 2025 for
📰 News & Discussions Why Local-First Software Is the Future and what are its Limitations "By allowing data to live on the client and only syncing with a server or other peers when needed, local-first apps can deliver a user experience that is fast, resilient, and privacy-friendly." See also
📰 News & Discussions Aaron Boodman on Building Zero, Local-First, and Living in Hawaii - Tomorrow E126 (podcast) "Aaron Boodman joins us to chat about his tech journey from building Greasemonkey, working on Google Chrome, being obsessed with sync on the web, Replicache, to his new project, Zero." Privacy-first
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/23 Community Meetup (talk videos) The LoFi/23 community meetup took place on Tuesday February 25th 2025, with talks by James Pearce ("Understanding the local-first jigsaw"), Jake Lazzaroff ("Modeling state for local-first apps") and Tom Larkworthy ("Local-firstifying Observable Notebooks"). localfirst.
📰 News & Discussions Roomy Deep Dive "A technical deep dive on how Roomy chat works, combining ATProto and Automerge to create a resource-efficient group chat." "I worked on Figma's sync engine LiveGraph and before that Meteor" X thread from @imslavko regarding Figma's
📰 News & Discussions Epsio, IVMs, and Differential Dataflow With Gilad Kleinman "Gilad Kleinman, CEO of Epsio, talks with me about incremental view maintenance (IVM). We discuss use cases, the history of IVM, how Epsio is different, and where the field is headed." Frontend, Local-First, Sync Engines "Web
📰 News & Discussions WASM64: A Local Computing Gateway "In just a few weeks, the latest updates to Chrome and Firefox will quietly unlock a new trajectory for local computing. WASM64—the long-awaited upgrade to WebAssembly—will become a reality." How Startup Founders Should Think About Local-First Dev "
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/22 Community Meetup The LoFi/22 community meetup took place on Tuesday January 28th 2025, with talks by Hakan Shehu ("Building Colanode"), Michiel de Jong ("Local-first personal data exporting and applications") and Aaron Boodman ("Introducing Zero"). How Local-First Development Is
📰 News & Discussions Client state management, sync engines, and Foundry "What we really want is declarative data synchronization. React lets us describe how we want our UI to look as a function of our data, and it uses a reconciliation algorithm to efficiently coordinate updates to our UI. In
📰 News & Discussions Local-First Conf 2025 Announced "Based on all the great feedback for last year, we've decided to extend the conference to 2 full days of talks covering the latest technologies and ideas in local-first." – @schickling.dev localfirst.fm #19 – Brooklyn Zelenka: UCAN, Beehive, Beelay
📰 News & Discussions Local-first client database migrations "Local database migrations is a required feature for all local-first apps. This example shows a strategy on how with Pglite using Drizzle and Effect." By @SandroMaglione Back to Basics: Why We Chose Long Polling Over WebSockets "Like many teams building
📰 News & Discussions localfirst.fm special episode: Apps vs Files with Gordon Brander, Peter van Hardenberg & Jess Martin "This is a special episode which was recorded as a Twitter space conversation between Gordon Brander, Peter Van Hardenberg, and Jess Martin. This conversation explores the ideas and trade offs
📰 News & Discussions How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster "This is the fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x faster for analytical queries." See also HN discussion. Local-First Berlin #2 (video playlist of talks) Video recordings of talks by James Arthur
📰 News & Discussions Vancouver DWeb Local-First Weekend (upcoming event) A weekend of talks, shared learning and coding on January 11th and 12th 2025 at Z-Space in Vancouver. We'll learn about the broader DWeb movement, local-first technologies we can use right now, and hack on some projects. Encrypting Offline
📰 News & Discussions Lies I was Told About Collaborative Editing, Part 1: Algorithms for offline editing "[D]espite the marketing copy, blog posts, and technical papers stating otherwise, [...] collaborative editing algorithms provide a systematically poor offline editing experience." "But, the news is not all bad. We are
📰 News & Discussions localfirst.fm #18 – James Arthur: ElectricSQL, read-path syncing, PGLite "The guest of this episode is James Arthur, founder and CEO of Electric SQL, a Postgres-centric sync engine for local-first apps. This conversation will dive deep into how Electric works and explore its design decisions such as
📣 Local-First News has migrated to Ghost! Local-First News is now using Ghost for site hosting, member management and email. Nothing changes for subscribers, except the added ability to comment on posts. 📰 News & Discussions LoFi/21 community meetup LoFi/21 was held on Tuesday November 26th at 8am PT, with
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/21 community meetup (upcoming event) LoFi/21 is scheduled for Tuesday November 26th at 8am PT, with talks by Felicia Chang (@felchang), from @jamsockethq, Sahil Lalani (@SahilLalani0) and Zixuan Chen (zx_loro) from @loro_dev. Local-First News is on Bluesky 🦋 An active local-first community is emerging
📰 News & Discussions localfirst.fm #17 – Kyle Simpson: Local-first identity "The guest of this episode is Kyle Simpson, a prolific JavaScript engineer and author of the book You Don’t Know JS. Over the past years, Kyle has been researching user identity and encryption in a local-first context which
📰 News & Discussions devtools.fm Episode #120: Nate Wienert - Tamagui, One Stack, Zero, and Universal Apps "This week Nate Wienert stop by for a second appearance. Nate is the creator of Tamagui, a framework for building universal apps with React Native. That work led him to create One
👻 Boos & Discussions LoFi/20 community meetup LoFi/20 took place on Tuesday October 29th, with talks by @expede ("Beehive: Local-first with E2EE & mutation control"), @nextgraph ("Local-first web of data: presenting NextGraph"), and @devYonz ("Vella.ai MVP Product Hunt launch"). The REPL #55:
📰 News & Discussions localfirst.fm #16 - Anselm Eickhoff: Jazz "The guest of this episode is Anselm Eickhoff, creator of Jazz and founder of Garden Computing. This conversation will dive deep into Jazz to learn how it works and which use cases it’s a good fit for by