Great talk by
@aboodman
of
@rocicorp
where he introduced Zero, their new hybrid query sync engine that searches the local cache first before falling back to the server for non-local data.
Announcing Local-First Conf 2024
The first in-person local-first conference for software builders.
📅 30th May 2024
🌍 Berlin, Germany
Get your ticket today. Only 150 available. 👇
"User agency & ownership of data and software"
Incredible talk by
@Mappletons
on how LLMs will empower "barefoot developers" to create their own home cooked software and that local-first can be backed in from the start.
"Local-first will be bigger than you think"
@JackMcCloy
gave an awesome talk about where he believes the opportunity for local-first is, and just how big the space is.
"Towards Efficient & Generic Streaming"
@ewind1994
of
@AFFiNEOfficial
shared how they are building ystream, a streamable virtual file system for batch syncing of Yjs ydocs.
"Database features should be language features"
Alexander Stigsen from
@realm
shares his insights into how with local-first you want to bland the gap between the database and the language.
"Every app secretly wants to be local-first"
@anselm_io
shares how he built a social media scheduling app Succulent using
@jazz_tools
, his framework for creating local-first apps.
Great talk from
@expede
on how they built UCAN (User Controlled Authorisation Network) a truthless local-first auth system using a chain of certificates.
"Tree Diff(iculties)"
Awesome talk from
@alex_jg
of
@inkandswitch
on how they implemented rich text for Automerge and moved to blocks from a tree structure.
We have another announcement:
As well as the conference day on May 30th, there will also be a Hackday on the 31st. It's a great opportunity to explore the local-first space and interact closely with speakers and other attendees through workshops and collaboration sessions.
Great talk by
@pesterhazy
of
@Pitch
on the myths about building offline capable apps, and the balance of decisions the developer has to make.
"Myth
#1
: Offline capabilities are a binary choice"
"Little elephants everywhere"
Awesome talk from
@thruflo
with a great story including baby elephant, Shetland ponies, moon boots, and squeezing Postgres into the browser.
"I looked up local-first and found I had been building that way for 10 years"
@drewmccormack
shared a little history of how indie-devs have been building with local-first before it was called that, and "ensemble" which he developed for his apps.
Great talk by
@naturallam
from
@GoodNotesEng
about their journey over the last 13 years building an app and funding that they were using local-first strategies.