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Weekly newsletter for local-first software developers.
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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!
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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
6 months ago
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2025.10.23 edition now out, featuring:
@tur.so
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and many more without socials!
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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
7 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
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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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2025.09.25 edition now out, featuring: Marco Bambini
@hexmaster.nl
@schickling.dev
@viteconf.org
@loro.dev
Bozhidar Hristov
@electric-sql.com
GhostChat Notesnook RealtimeX LyfeBinder Dyad
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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
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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
8 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
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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
8 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!
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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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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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@tanstack.com
SilverBullet Epicenter
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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
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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
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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
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2025.05.22 edition is out 🍔
www.localfirstnews.com/2025-05-22
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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/
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2025.05.15 edition is out 🍭
www.localfirstnews.com/2025-05-15/
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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/
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2025.05.08 edition is out 💐
www.localfirstnews.com/2025-05-08/
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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/
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2025.05.01 edition is out 🔧
www.localfirstnews.com/2025-05-01/
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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/
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2025.04.24 edition is out 💐
www.localfirstnews.com/2025-04-24/
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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/
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2025.04.17 edition is out ☀️
www.localfirstnews.com/2025-04-17/
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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
https://www.localfirstnews.com/2025-04-17/
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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/
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2025.04.04 edition is out 🐿️
www.localfirstnews.com/2025-04-03/
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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/
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2025.03.27 edition is out 🌅 🌃
www.localfirstnews.com/2025-03-27/
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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
https://www.localfirstnews.com/2025-03-27/
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2025.03.20 edition is out 🌅 🌃
www.localfirstnews.com/2025-03-20/
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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/
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