@shupp.dev and I are hosting the first Local-First DC meetup on 9/2. Join us and meet other local-first enthusiasts in the DC area! luma.com/vfq3th6c

Local-First DC: Meet and greet · Luma

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Missed first two days of localfirstconf in person so now videos are out I’ve been catching up. This talk by @jenson.org resonates the most with me. Now is the time we should be building new and novel system interfaces www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IOL...

Scott Jenson — How the Desktop UX needs to evolve to keep up with Local-first

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talk recordings from this year's @localfirstconf.com are up! i thought the lineup was incredible and basically everything is worth watching. but in case you don't know where to start, here were some of the highlights for me:

Local-First Conf 2026 - YouTube

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my @localfirstconf.com talk is now on youtube! it's a love letter to plaintext weirdos, and a case for why the best way to build AI apps is to add zero AI features www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZEB...

Tristan Edwards — Plaintext-first apps in the age of agents

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My talk at @localfirstconf.com is up, in which I argue that local-first has a role to play in improving the resilience of democratic societies in an era of geopolitical tensions. I'm pretty happy with how this talk turned out www.youtube.com/watch?v=--Ru...

Martin Kleppmann — Local-first in an unstable world

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My LocalFirst talk is up! How the Desktop UX needs to evolve This is a "part 2" of my #ubuntu talk last year. This time with more demos! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IOL...

Scott Jenson — How the Desktop UX needs to evolve to keep up with Local-first

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Biggest and best @localfirstconf.com yet, IMO! Surprising emergent themes this year: geopolitics and EU digital sovereignty, and strong conflicting emotions on LLM-assisted coding. More: adamwiggins.com/posts/politi...

Politics and emotion at Local-First Conf · Adam Wiggins

My reflections on Local-First Conf 2026. I was surprised by the angles of geopolitics, and charged emotion in response to our changing industry.

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Tomorrow is the first regional Local First Meetup, happening in New York at the Radegast Hall & Biergarten (continuing a Berlin tradition!)

LoFi Meetup NY (Hosted by Iroh) · Luma

Join us at Radegast Hall & Biergarten for a drink and a casual chat about local-first software. "Local first" is a term for software that prioritizes data…

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Announcing Wanix Elements! Now you can build virtual compute systems with just HTML. Some broad use cases: - let people try your CLI before downloading - build your own browser OS or dev env - make old apps/games work on the web - explore and play with plan 9 concepts Link below.

Delighted by the simplicity of @tldraw.com offline's initial screen

This week I spoke at @localfirstconf.com in Berlin. A lot of the audience had Claude Code open, and still applauded every time when a speaker would say something LLM-critical on stage. I feel the same. So I wrote it down: www.theocharis.dev/blog/llm-cri...

Hanging out at the Berlin textile coop during @localfirstconf.com fulfilling multiple of my long time dreams: text + textiles + computations

Had a fantastic time at @localfirstconf.com. Started off relatively stark with discussions acknowledging the general political instability of our times and how much data sovereignty matters. Ended with an absolutely wild demo of @inkandswitch.com's patchwork project. Lots of good bits in between.

leaving @localfirstconf.com feeling super inspired. three days of mind-bending talks and conversations with some of the smartest and most interesting people i know. so glad this community exists.

flying back from @localfirstconf.com, and wow what a stellar conference. This year's program was by far my fav lineup of any conf I've been to. Chaos day was great. Hats off to the organizers!

i kind of ended up at @localfirstconf.com on a whim, im adjacent to a lot folks in that space but not really a part of it. walked away after yesterday having never felt so enthused and energised after a conf. @inkandswitch.com in particular are something really special. if you can, go next year.

Really great to see everyone at dweb camp and @localfirstconf.com. Ton of atproto discussion! Also the p2p world showing a lot of excitement for iroh. Really exciting times

Day 2 @localfirstconf.com continues with the same level of intensity 🤯 First, @pfrazee.com gave us a tour of how to scale distributed systems. Now we’re learning about IMAP’s quirks and a new proposal (JMAP - yes JSON) from @fastmail.com

Ilja@fubits.dev · 3w ago

Too mind-blown by @localfirstconf.com to post about @localfirstconf.com Currently learning from @jakelazaroff.com how atproto *really* works.

2026 @localfirstconf.com is truly one of the few places that unite disparate communities—open source, LLMs, p2p, interface design, standards—behind a shared value: user agency and empowerment. How refreshing to witness the openness and curiosity everyone brings to the discussion.

A few impressions from yesterday‘s talks 📸 @adamwiggins.com @martin.kleppmann.com @stevenruiz.bsky.social @jakelazaroff.com

Good morning and welcome to Day 2 app-2026.localfirstconf.com/schedule/day-2 Please bring your badges with you!

Version control for game development!

pvh@pvh.ca · last mo.

From research, to prototype, to a real plugin you can install in the Godot Asset Store, Backstitch is a branch of our research into universal version control brought to life in the Godot game engine! You can check it out now: store.godotengine.org/asset/inkand...

I went on the InfoQ podcast to talk about how Heroku+12factor sowed the seeds for local first: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkk8...

Architectural Patterns: Moving Beyond Cloud-Native to Local-First - Insights from Adam Wiggins

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Devs talking calmly about AI. Who to follow, summarized from the replies: @simonwillison.net @mitsuhiko.at @vickiboykis.com @brittanyellich.com @antfu.me Thanks for the recommendations!

Adam Wiggins@adamwiggins.com · last mo.

It feels like nearly every dev talking about AI is either: a maximalist – Font of hype and boosterism. Manic energy on building. Signs of AI psychosis. a skeptic – Depressed by the torrent of slop and disappearance of craft. Waiting for the industry to implode when token prices skyrocket.

It feels like nearly every dev talking about AI is either: a maximalist – Font of hype and boosterism. Manic energy on building. Signs of AI psychosis. a skeptic – Depressed by the torrent of slop and disappearance of craft. Waiting for the industry to implode when token prices skyrocket.

Genuinely excited for www.interceptfund.com As a parent of a young child, I find it wild how much of our lives (they estimate 5%) we lose to the common cold.

Intercept

A philanthropic initiative accelerating technologies to reduce and ultimately eliminate respiratory viruses.

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“Less human oversight means accepting that we may no longer understand the whole system. We treat it, we monitor it, we stabilize it, but we do not necessarily comprehend it. I have no doubts that for some software, that is okay. […] But do I want all software to be authored this way?”

Armin Ronacher@mitsuhiko.at · last mo.

Some more thoughts on looping in coding agents. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/23/th...

My current LLM-assisted coding stack: OpenCode, Opus or GLM-5.x, Hetzner VPS Loving that agent harnesses are making inference mostly a commodity!

“in a world full of slop, it takes competence and judgement to discern treasures from disposable waste” kennethnym.com/blog/the-art...

my view on llm text: great for compression horrible for expansion, e.g. i use it to convert 5000 char data into 300 char data but not vice versa, at least prose. code is another story