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Weekly newsletter for local-first software developers.
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2026.01.15 edition is out!
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2026.01.08 edition now out! Users want offline & no-subs apps 🙅♂️💸, LLMs running locally 🤖🖥️, Qwen on a Raspberry Pi ⚡🥧, private-by-default apps for notes, auth, finance, stats 🔐📓💰📈
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2026.01.01 edition now out! 🎆
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2025.12.25 edition now out! 🎄
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2025.12.18 edition now out! Local-first tools 🔧: Synclets, LinkedQL, EdgeVec; Turso interview 🎥 Several local-first apps ✨
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2025.12.11 edition now out!
about 1 month ago
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2025.12.04 edition now out, featuring:
@acolombiadev.bsky.social
@github.com
@inkandswitch.com
Divya / shortdiv
@jazz.tools
@thruflo.com
@electric-sql.com
Kevin Wade
@tanstack.com
SyncKit
@loro.dev
Docnode Superfill SmartSort Columns
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2025.11.20 edition now out, featuring:
@convex.dev
@viteconf.org
@schickling.dev
@powersync.com
Count Cachula
@couchbase.bsky.social
Ominipg
@livestore.dev
@cloudflare.social
@jazz.tools
Kaipsul The Context Co Nanocoder The Janus Foundry Locu Jotaha Zesfy
about 2 months ago
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2025.10.23 edition now out, featuring:
@tur.so
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and many more without socials!
3 months ago
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2025.10.16 edition now out, featuring:
@viteconf.org
@schickling.dev
@jessmart.in
ExecuTorch
@expo.dev
Norbert Klockiewicz Maciej Rys Todout
@djiglobal.bsky.social
Booplet Osaurus
3 months ago
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2025.10.09 edition now out, featuring: Triplit
@supabase.com
ossa
@syncconf.bsky.social
twimlia
@expo.dev
instantdb
@tur.so
marcus pousette
@powersync.com
EffectTS
@livestore.dev
@jessmart.in
HyperDrift Lokus FinBodh
3 months ago
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2025.10.02 edition now out, featuring:
@noeldemartin.com
@germanjablo.bsky.social
Akshay Kumar Francois van der Merwe
@powersync.com
Marco Bambini
@sqlitecloud.bsky.social
@warski.org
Ryan Tan
@mweidner.bsky.social
@spacetimedb.bsky.social
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4 months ago
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2025.09.25 edition now out, featuring: Marco Bambini
@hexmaster.nl
@schickling.dev
@viteconf.org
@loro.dev
Bozhidar Hristov
@electric-sql.com
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4 months ago
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2025.09.18 edition now out, featuring:
@powersync.com
Andreas Dzialocha
@schickling.dev
@viteconf.org
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@guissou.bsky.social
@gagik.bsky.socia unheard[dot]fm
4 months ago
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2025.09.11 edition now out, featuring:
@maxiferreira.com
@livestore.dev
@tonyonodi.bsky.social
@electric-sql.com
Excali Organizer Slingshot
@obsidian.md
4 months ago
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2025.09.04 edition now out, featuring:
@sqlitecloud.bsky.social
@syncconf.bsky.social
@localfirst.fm
@adamwiggins.bsky.social
@thruflo.com
@syntax.fm
@avi.im
@agwa.name
@k081e.bsky.social
@powersync.com
Time Tracker Perfice TeXlyre
4 months ago
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2025.08.28 edition now out, featuring:
@janl.bsky.narrativ.es
@mauve.moe
@sophiebits.com
@zed.dev
@expo.dev
@powersync.com
@mackuba.eu
PeerSuite Relay PuffinPilot To To-Do PromptMask
5 months ago
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2025.08.21 edition now out, featuring:
@housecor.com
@getdweb.net
Whispering Zedless
@notion.com
Many of this week's featured discussions and tools don't have socials to link to!
5 months ago
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2025.08.14 edition now out, featuring:
@localfirstconf.com
@aaronfrancis.com
@glaubercosta.bsky.social
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@jherr.dev
@tanstack.com
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5 months ago
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2025.08.07 edition now out, featuring:
@paoramen.com
@kiselitza.bsky.social
@kyle.bricolage.io
@electric-sql.com
@en.sitnik.ru
@t3chfest.es
@automerge.org
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pointfree.co
@tanstack.com
SilverBullet Epicenter
5 months ago
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2025.07.31 edition now out, featuring: David Fahlander
@f0a.org
@jayz.us
@tolin.ski
@syntax.fm
@blainewordly.bsky.social
@tanstack.com
@electric-sql.com
@hyprnote-john.bsky.social
trackio shinkai logseq
6 months ago
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2025.07.03 edition now out, featuring:
@pvh.ca
@tur.so
@expo.dev
@codewithbeto.dev
Epanet-JS Taurin NumPad OOMOL
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2025.06.12 edition now out, featuring:
@localfirstconf.com
@adamwiggins.bsky.social
@inkandswitch.com
@joehellerstein.bsky.social
@thruflo.com
@electric-sql.com
@pgconf.dev
@samwillis.uk
@naps62.bsky.social
@ethprague.bsky.social
@ethui.bsky.social
@bsky.neighbourhood.ie
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2025.06.05 edition now out, featuring:
@localfirstconf.com
@bsky.neighbourhood.ie
@k081e.bsky.social
@schickling.dev
@livestore.dev
@en.sitnik.ru
@tolin.ski
@redwoodjs.com
Noteworthy AuthPass
7 months ago
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2025.05.22 edition is out 🍔
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2025.05.22
📰 News & Discussions Local-First Conf 2025 (upcoming event) "Join us for the second edition of Local-First Conf. Connect with a rapidly-growing community in an intimate setting. This year, the conference spans 3 days. May 26th is dedicated to workshops and community sessions, while the following 2 days feature outstanding talks." Berlin,
https://www.localfirstnews.com/2025-05-22/
8 months ago
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2025.05.15 edition is out 🍭
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2025.05.15
📰 News & Discussions Exploring interoperability & composability for local-first software "This is the third exploration connecting local-first software with the AT Protocol (atproto). Previously, I explored how atproto can enable new functionality for local-first software by providing distribution and legibility. Now, I'll focus on interoperability and composability—how we can combine data
https://www.localfirstnews.com/2025-05-15/
8 months ago
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2025.05.08 edition is out 💐
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2025.05.08
📰 News & Discussions Beyond the Cloud: The Local-First Software Revolution • Brooklyn Zelenka & Julian Wood • GOTO 2025 "Distributed systems researcher Brooklyn Zelenka unpacks the paradigm shift of local-first computing, where applications primarily run on users' devices and synchronize seamlessly without central servers." localfirst.fm #24 – Ben Holmes: Astro, Simple Sync Engine & Warp
https://www.localfirstnews.com/2025-05-08/
8 months ago
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2025.05.01 edition is out 🔧
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2025.05.01
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/25 Community Meetup The LoFi/25 community meetup took place on Tuesday April 29th, 2025, with talks by Johannes Schickling ("Local-first event sourcing"), Alexander Komyagin ("Data API: AI-native developer toolkit"), and Henok Ademtew ("Running big language models on mobile and web"). Local-First Landscape by localfirst.fm "Whether
https://www.localfirstnews.com/2025-05-01/
9 months ago
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2025.04.24 edition is out 💐
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2025.04.24
📰 News & Discussions Making React Fun Again with Sync – Aaron Boodman, React Miami 2025 (talk video) "Aaron Boodman from Rocicorp discussing sync engines. April 18, 2025, React Miami." Building a serverless database replica with Carl Sverre (interview) "In this episode, Carl Sverre and I discuss why syncing everything is a bad
https://www.localfirstnews.com/2025-04-24/
9 months ago
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2025.04.17 edition is out ☀️
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2025.04.17
📰 News & Discussions Carl Sverre on "Storing small things in big places" (talk video) "Carl Sverre of SQLSync introduces Graft: an open-source transactional storage engine optimized for lazy, partial, and strongly consistent replication — perfect for edge, offline-first, and distributed applications." localfirst.fm #23 – Sujay Jayakar: Dropbox, Convex (podcast episode) "This episode's
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9 months ago
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2025.04.10 edition is out 🦫
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2025.04.10
📰 News & Discussions Put your database in the browser with Ben Holmes (podcast episode) "Ben Holmes, product engineer at Warp, joins PodRocket to talk about local-first web apps and what it takes to run a database directly in the browser. He breaks down how moving data closer to the user can
https://www.localfirstnews.com/2025-04-10/
9 months ago
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2025.04.04 edition is out 🐿️
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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
https://www.localfirstnews.com/2025-04-03/
10 months ago
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2025.03.27 edition is out 🌅 🌃
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2025.03.27
📰 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 "I love storing user data on the
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10 months ago
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2025.03.20 edition is out 🌅 🌃
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2025.03.20
📰 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 a hack
https://www.localfirstnews.com/2025-03-20/
10 months ago
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2025.03.13 edition is out 🌔
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2025.03.13
📰 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 HN discussion. Lessons
https://www.localfirstnews.com/2025-03-13/
10 months ago
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2025.03.06 edition is out 🌴
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2025.03.06
📰 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 architecture: local-first and
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2025.02.27 edition is out 🌑
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2025.02.27
📰 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.fm #21 – Seph Gentle: Google Wave, eg-walker,
https://www.localfirstnews.com/2025-02-27/
11 months ago
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2025.02.20 edition is out 🦫
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2025.02.20
📰 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 work on sync engines. AI agents are local first
https://www.localfirstnews.com/2025-02-20/
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2025.02.13 edition is out 🏹
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2025.02.13
📰 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 APIs empower the client
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11 months ago
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2025.02.06 edition is out 👍
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2025.02.06
📰 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 "Prisma founder and startup
https://www.localfirstnews.com/2025-02-06/
11 months ago
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2025.01.30 edition out now 👇
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2025.01.30
📰 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 Changing How We Make Software "To help
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12 months ago
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2025.01.23 edition out now 👇
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2025.01.23
📰 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 the same
https://www.localfirstnews.com/2025-01-23/
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2025-01-16 edition now out 👇
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2025.01.16
📰 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 "The guest of this episode
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2025.01.09 is out 💫
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2025.01.09
📰 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 real-time systems with Node.
https://www.localfirstnews.com/2025-01-09/
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2025.01.02 is out! 🍾
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2025.01.02
📰 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 of apps versus
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2024.12.26 out now 👇
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2024.12.26
📰 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 ("Local-first with your
https://www.localfirstnews.com/2024-12-26/
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2024.12.19 is out! 👇
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2024.12.19
📰 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 Storage for Local-First
https://www.localfirstnews.com/2024-12-19/
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2024.12.05 is out! 👇
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2024.12.05
📰 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 read-path syncing
https://www.localfirstnews.com/2024-12-05/
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2024.11.28 now out 👇
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2024.11.28
📣 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 pos...
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