📰 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
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/20 community meetup (upcoming event) LoFi/20 is scheduled for Tuesday October 29th at 8am PT, 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
📰 News & Discussions Jazz – Apps with Distributed State (Hacker News) HN discussion on Jazz, "an open-source framework for building local-first apps" Show HN: One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first "We've partnered with Zero to make local-first work well." All Applications
📰 News & Discussions A Local-First Case Study "Dusting off the blog to write about a local-first web app I built and what it taught me about the current local-first ecosystem!" - @jlazaroff. See also HN discussion. localfirst.fm #15 – Tuomas Artman: Linear, sync engines, rethought startup MVP "
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/19 Community Meetup The LoFi/19 community meetup took place on Tuesday September 24th, with talks by @nikgraf ("End-to-end encryption in local-first apps"), @agarcia_me ("Local-first vector search with sqlite-vec"), and @steveruizok ("tldraw, a canvas for you"). Forget ChatGPT: why
📰 News & Discussions Aljoscha Meyer & Sam Gwilym - Earthstar + Willow "We’re working on Willow, a family of protocols for synchronisable data stores." "You may have heard of something like this referred to as 'local-first', or offline-first, and we’re far from the first
📰 News & Discussions MongoDB Atlas Device Sync Deprecation Big news this week is that MongoDB deprecated their Atlas Device Sync product, which many developers used as a sync engine. "As of September 2024, Device Sync is deprecated for Atlas App Services. Device Sync will reach end-of-life and be removed
📰 News & Discussions localfirst.fm #14 - Matthew Weidner: Architectures for Central Server Collaboration "The guest of this episode is Matthew Weidner, a computer science PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University focussing on distributed systems and local-first software. Matthew has recently published an extensive blog post about architectures for
📰 News & Discussions Recapping the first Local‑First conference in 15 minutes Andrey Sitnik (@sitnikcode) recaps the main idea of every talk from Local‑First Conf, which took place in Berlin on May 30th 2024. Local-First (LoFi) Meetup #18 (video) The LoFi #18 meetup took place on Tuesday August 27th,
📰 News & Discussions Local-first is more than just a software problem Podcast episode / video by @raymmar_: "Local-first software is about more than just software. It's about people, it's about protecting your privacy, it's about data, it's about building relationships that mirror
📰 News & Discussions Fireproof Uses Merkle CRDTs to Cut Database Latency "The low latency, run-anywhere database combines cryptographic technologies with linked data and distributed computing approaches." localfirst.fm #13 – Maggie Appleton: Barefoot Developers, AI, end-user programming The guest of the latest episode of localfirst.fm is Maggie Appleton
📰 News & Discussions The SQLite Takeover with Turso’s Glauber Costa The Syntax.fm podcast interviews Glauber Costa (@glcst) regarding Turso, a distributed SQLite platform getting attention for its managed service and libSQL fork. GenAI Predictions and The Future of LLMs as local-first offline SLMs @liran_tal discusses issues with
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/17 Community Meetup The LoFi/17 community meetup took place on Tuesday July 30th, with talks by Stepan Parunashvili from Instant ("Writing a Graph-Based Sync Engine"), James Addison ("Shapeshifting media & collaboration"), and James Pearce of TinyBase ("CRDTs are the Easy
📰 News & Discussions "Building Resilient Distributed Systems" in early access Author Sam Newman shared that a few chapters of this upcoming book are available in early access. Publication is planned for August 2025. ElectricSQL announce clean rebuild Announcing a new direction, the ElectricSQL team said they would rebuild