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Local-First News @localfirstnews.bsky.social · Nov 21
Local-First news is an *open contribution* newsletter for the local-first community.

Contributions can be made with pull requests until 10AM ET on Thursdays for that week's newsletter.

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2025.10.23 edition now out, featuring:

@tur.so
@pointfree.co

and many more without socials!
October 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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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
October 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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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
October 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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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
...
October 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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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
September 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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2025.09.18 edition now out, featuring:

@powersync.com
Andreas Dzialocha
@schickling.dev
@viteconf.org
@pointfree.co
@guissou.bsky.social
@gagik.bsky.socia
unheard[dot]fm
September 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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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
September 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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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
September 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
localfirstnews.bsky.social
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
August 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
localfirstnews.bsky.social
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!
August 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
localfirstnews.bsky.social
2025.08.14 edition now out, featuring:

@localfirstconf.com
@aaronfrancis.com
@glaubercosta.bsky.social
@rabble-nos-social.eclipse.pub
@jherr.dev‬
@tanstack.com‬
‬CalfitPro
GoSuki
August 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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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
@pointfree.co
@tanstack.com‬
SilverBullet
Epicenter
August 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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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
July 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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2025.07.03 edition now out, featuring:

@pvh.ca
@tur.so‬
@expo.dev‬
@codewithbeto.dev
Epanet-JS
Taurin
‬NumPad
OOMOL
July 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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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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June 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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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
June 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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2025.05.22 edition is out 🍔

www.localfirstnews.com/2025-05-22
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,
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May 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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2025.05.15 edition is out 🍭

www.localfirstnews.com/2025-05-15/
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
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May 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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2025.05.08 edition is out 💐

www.localfirstnews.com/2025-05-08/
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
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May 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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2025.05.01 edition is out 🔧

www.localfirstnews.com/2025-05-01/
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
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May 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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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
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April 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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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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April 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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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
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April 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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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
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April 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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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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March 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM