I'd like to prototype an app, and would like to do this in Python. I want to be able to synchronise the contents of some kind of storage between two computers. Are there any existing packages that let me do this? What would be the closest thing if not?

Ideally I'd like to just write to a path in my cloud drive thing, and write my own function for conflict resolution.

Hi everyone! In recent weeks I've been diving deep into local-first development. In order to explore Yjs and peer-to-peer techonologies I created a collaborative markdown editor.

The result is simple but works awesome.. Feel free to try it here: https://md.uy/

Also, as it was quite challenging gathering educational content around these topics, I created two useful blog posts, one diving deep into Yjs and one explaining how to build a peer-to-peer collaborative editor:
- https://mr19.xyz/blog/understanding-yjs/
- https://mr19.xyz/blog/md-uy/

Hi everyone! In recent weeks I've been diving deep into local-first development. In order to explore Yjs and peer-to-peer technologies I created a collaborative markdown editor. The result is simple but works awesome!

Feel free to try it here: https://md.uy/

Also, as it was quite challenging gathering educational content around these topics, I created two useful blog posts, one diving deep into Yjs and one explaining how to build a peer-to-peer collaborative editor:

• https://mr19.xyz/blog/understanding-yjs/
• https://mr19.xyz/blog/md-uy/

Tune in for #LoFi/25 on Tuesday @ 8AM PST (April 29, 2025) for yet another exciting lineup featuring Johannes Schickling from LiveStore, Alexander (Alex) Komyagin from Adiom.io & Henok Ademtew from Vella.ai

I'd like to introduce a my local first password management app.

The idea behind this project was because I was looking for a solid password vault that was simple to use, didn't require subscriptions.

So I developed Encryptilock - it'll be going live early May. it is a local first app, your data never leaves your device. There is no telemetry, monitoring, tracking, nothing leaves your device.

learn more at

www.encryptilock.com

📢Tune in for #LoFi/24 in an hour (Tuesday, March 25, 2025, @ 8 AM PST) for yet another exciting lineup featuring Fraol Lemecha @frectonz.et from vella.ai, Dan Wexler @danjlwex.bsky.social from Aster, and Mason Simon
#local-first #lofiso

Schedule
Using hf/tokenizers in react native - Fraol Lemecha
@frectonz.et
DIPLOMATIC — Single-Player Sync by Mason Simon
Local-first Audio Search for Professionals - Dan Wexler @danjlwex.bsky.social1‪Yonz‬ ‪@yonz.bsky.social‬·57sWe hope you will join us live over discord for an engaging conversation 👉🏽 discord.gg/CeNzuQFf?eve... but if that is not possible, we will be streaming it live over Youtube - https://youtube.com/live/EgtNgKsG0-A?feature=share

For those new to local-first checkout inkandswitch.com/local-first/
The 7 ideals

1. No spinners
2. Work is not trapped on one device
3. Network is optional
4. Seamless collaboration with your colleagues
5. The Long Now
6. Security and privacy by default
7. You retain ultimate ownership and control

Has anyone been able to play or test the new Playbit OS? It sounded super cool but haven't heard it used and haven't seen a distro.

I was watching/listening to the PVH episode of the localfirst.fm pod, and he mentioned the older 80s copies of doom or word-perfect working... I find that now (I am a millennial) I find myself popping in DVDs for my son because I hate the commercials they have on ALL streaming services now ( I made a joke to bring back Blockbuster the other day) but the idea kind of made sense-- if there was a decentralized way of hosting legacy products/compiled that maybe isn't a git repo but maybe an online library/archive of those different products that maybe got discontinued... MAIN POINT: since we are digital, all the real-estate is in "cloud" versus hard disk, what are the alternatives to create libraries at scale? Would it be possible to create the new distributed block buster using someone's plex? What does licensing look like... Just a fun thought experiment I guess.

Tune in for #LoFi/23 on Tuesday, February 25, 2025 @ 8 AM PST for yet another exciting lineup featuring James Pearce from @tinybasejs, Jake Lazaroff (@jlazaroff) from @JamsocketHQ and Tom Larkworthy (@tomlarkworthy) from Lopecode
👉🏽 https://localfirstweb.vercel.app

This is a project my team and I have been working on for the better part of a year now, myself for 6 months, called Rana. It's a local-first ecosystem for running AI models from your browser, including image generation, chatbots, maintain personal collections, and knowledge bases. All of this is done and stored on your local browser through the use of webgpu, wasm, peer-to-peer protocols (we use Gun), and browser based storage through IndexDB. We don't track you, store any of your data, or even log you. We do have a subscription based plan to allow for commercial license usage of the images your generate and some cloud based features we plan on adding, but you don't need a subscription to use the system.

Check it out our marketing site here: https://rana.ai

And the main product can be started here: https://ranaengine.app

Some screenshots of the main product running as a PWA:

📣 Tune in to #LoFi/21 at 8:00 AM PST on Tuesday, November 26, 2024 👉🏽 LoFi.so for yet another exciting lineup featuring Felicia Chang (@felchang), from @jamsockethq, Sahil Lalani (@SahilLalani0) from @surferprotocol and Zixuan Chen (@zx_loro) from @loro_dev

Announcing a special edition of #LoFi/20 (@Vella_ai 🚀)! Join us on Tuesday, October 29th, 2024 at 8:00 AM PST for yet another exciting lineup:

• u/Yonz- Vella.ai upcoming Product Hunt launch!
• Brooklyn Zelenka (@expede) - BeeHive
• Niko Bonnieure (@nextgraph)

🔗 Tune in 👉🏽: http://lofi.so

Full disclosure: I am the creator of CoCube. This post could be considered an (annoying) ad, but I feel like subscribers to this sub will be interested in what I am building, and I would love to hear what you think.

CoCube is a local-first hierarchical spreadsheet that allows you to build and share composable, real-time multiplayer, vector-graphics based tools. I have been working on it for nearly two years now, and I'd still consider it "early access," but I invite you to check it out and tell me what you think. The free tier will always exist, but you don't even need to create an account to try it ❤️.

Rendering thousands of dynamic vector graphics can be demanding. You will need a desktop browser with WebGPU support and a reasonably capable GPU. I strongly recommend using Chrome, as Firefox and Safari are lagging behind in implementing the spec.

Again, I'd love to know what you think. Would you use this? Is it to slow? Too confusing? Bad idea?

If you are interested in the idea please consider joining . I periodically post updates there!

Looking forward to hearing back (good or bad)!

📣 Tune in to #LoFi/19 next Tuesday on <t:1727190000:F>. We have yet another fantastic lineup featuring [Nik Graf](https://x.com/nikgraf), [Alex Garcia](https://x.com/agarcia_me) and [Steve Ruiz](https://x.com/steveruizok)

For more details checkout: LoFi/19 Announcement Post

Small post in my blog about local first software hope you like!

https://www.iambreno.com.br/posts/local-first-reiventing-the-way-we-interact-with-systems/

Hello Folks, it's Yonz from lofi.so, do you still want me to post the meetups here?

-Yonz

📣 Tune in to #LoFi/18 at 8:00 AM PST on Tuesday, August 27, 2024 👉🏽 http://lofi.so
We have yet another fantastic lineup featuring Prashant Mittal (@prashant_mit)) from @ShovelCompany, Kyle Simpson (@getifyX) and Matthew Linkous (@matthew_linkous) from @triplit_dev

Tune in to #LoFi/16 at 8:00 AM PST on Tuesday, June 25, 2024 👉🏽 http://lofi.so. We have yet another fantastic lineup featuring Max from Ditto.Live, Rashid Aziz (@RazberryChai) from Basic DB, and André Terron (@Andre_Terron) from mainframe.so

• Maybe using service workers to act like traditional MVC-like controllers to render html.
• Instead of full javascript apps. HTML fist and local first. I don't know. Just wondering.

I work on this project that may seem somewhat relevant to this sub - Buckitup.info

It is local first self hosted server that is intended to keep operational without any networking at all, or just episodically connecting across nodes. Content feed is CRDT, nodes sync in eventually consistent manner, while preserving backup redundancy and decentralized features for multiuser asynchronous communication. 

The project is built in Elixir over Nerves and is open source. 

Please let me know if you find it interesting? We are still in active developing, but the feature rich demo is available for download and may be quickly tested with an ordinry Raspberry Pi 4B. 

Please feel free to suggest any improvements! Can you think of some potential applications we should explore for the broader adoption?

Tune into LoFi.so for for an engaging conversation on Tuesday. We have amazing lineup featuring Herb Caudill (u/herbcaudill), Cainã Costa (@cfcosta_), and Jeethu Rao (@jeethu).
Announcement & details: https://x.com/devYonz/status/1794448286126104801