Yonz

Yonz

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Founder @ Vella.ai | LoFi.so | HBS'22 Passionate about user-owned auth, storage, and personalization. #localfirst #lofi

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📣 Tune in for #LoFi/42 on Tuesday at 8 AM PDT (October 27). 1️⃣ Steven @sliechti.bsky.social: Rust, iroh and CRDTs in a native workspace 2️⃣ Kushagar Goel: Bring local-first to your backend 3️⃣ Schalk Venter: Local-first without the commitment 🧵👇

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📣 Tune in for #LoFi/42 on Tuesday at 8 AM PDT (October 27). 1️⃣ Steven @sliechti.bsky.social: Rust, iroh and CRDTs in a native workspace 2️⃣ Kushagar Goel: Bring local-first to your backend 3️⃣ Schalk Venter: Local-first without the commitment 🧵👇

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2️⃣ Kushagar Goel - Engineer at Juspay building payments infrastructure, presents "Bring local-first to your backend" - why caches, webhooks and alerts need to know when data changes, and how Streamgres, a Rust library, keeps your backend's queries live.

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3️⃣ Schalk Venter - Product designer, engineer and FEDSA co-founder, presents "Local Curious: Exploring Local-First without the commitment" - why risk-averse teams hesitate, how to try local-first without a full rewrite, and practical partial implementations.

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📣 Tune in for #LoFi/42 on Tuesday at 8 AM PDT (October 27). 1️⃣ Steven @sliechti.bsky.social: Rust, iroh and CRDTs in a native workspace 2️⃣ Kushagar Goel: Bring local-first to your backend 3️⃣ Schalk Venter: Local-first without the commitment 🧵👇

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1️⃣ Steven Liechti @sliechti.bsky.social - CTO and solo founder of Koru Works, presents "Rust, iroh and CRDTs in a Local-first native workspace" - why he chose that stack, where notes apps fall short, and what's next for Koru: P2P collaboration, agents and self-hosted sync.

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2️⃣ Jose Luis Olivares Esteban x.com/x39matrix - Independent developer and builder of X-39 Notaría, presents "Evidence Without Permission" - sealing documents client-side, anchoring dates in Bitcoin, verifying proofs offline, and building evidence that outlives any service.

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3️⃣ Jake Uribe @jakeuribe.bsky.social - Physics researcher at UW-Madison, presents "linXiv" - a local-first academic paper manager built with SQLite and Rust, how local-first can help research, and a P2P stack using Iroh, Automerge, Keyhive, and Beelay.

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1️⃣ Alex Cheema x.com/alexocheema, Founder of EXO Labs and co-creator of local.ai, presents "Local AI is good now" - how useful local models moved from expensive clusters to fast MacBooks, what enabled the shift, and where local intelligence is going next.

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2️⃣ Kushagra Lakhwani @codesonpaper.bsky.social - OSS builder by night, quant dev and researcher by day, presents "ResearchPocket: Your Sync Server is LoFi" - CRDT sync over GitHub, private repos as sync substrates, real merge costs and where the no-server model breaks down.

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3️⃣ Philip Schatz (philschatz.com) - Open-source developer and occasional Automerge contributor, presents "Sharing our lives with each other, not big tech" - sharing docs with Keyhive, relay features and gotchas, and designing data and presence messages.

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1️⃣ Jimmie Wang @jimmie.me - Founder of Myfield, system engineer and open source advocate, presents "Myfield: Building Identity and Sync for Local-First Apps" - Turn Field lessons, device-owned MFID, encrypted sync and building local-first apps on Myfield.

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1️⃣ Kaichao Sun @kaichao.keyring.so, creator of MarkdownSync and Movedone, will talk about "Smart Clients, Thin Server: local-first, real-time Markdown collaboration". Browser-side CRDT runtime, eg-walker merges, and offline edits persisted to IndexedDB.

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2️⃣ Samson Ssali x.com/@ssali_samson - Software Developer at JITPOMI LLC, will discuss SEYFR — direct device-to-device file sharing, iroh modules for firewall traversal with zero middlemen, and a shared Rust core powering native apps through JFFI.

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3️⃣ Bryan Reilly @bryrei.bsky.social - Former software engineer at Visa and Google, now building CoCube, will talk about "Local-First Modular Tools with CoCube" — personal knowledge tools, owning not just your data but your system, and using CoCube to create and share flexible, private tools.

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1️⃣ Dongda Li x.com/@dongdongbh - PhD candidate at Syracuse University researching multimodal AI and creator of Mindwtr, will talk about "Building a Cross-Platform Local-First GTD App as a Solo Dev"

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Coming up soon, join us live on discord or YouTube

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📣 Tune in for #LoFi/36 on Tuesday @ 8 AM PDT (April 28), for the stellar lineup below. 1️⃣ James Arthur @thruflo.com: CEO & Co-founder @electric-sql.com 2️⃣ Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com: GP & CTO @blueyard, author, musician 3️⃣ HanLin (Ranger) Chen: Building Elastik 🔗 lofi.so 🧵 👇

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Tomorrow morning I'll be hanging out here doing a brief talk about @freeq.at and how it fits into aicoding.leaflet.pub

aicoding.leaflet.pubThe Phoenix ArchitectureGenerative AI coding demands what we've always known: modularity, clear boundaries, disposable components. Principles that scaled human teams are now table stakes. Here, we make the implicit explicit
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📣 Tune in for #LoFi/36 on Tuesday @ 8 AM PDT (April 28), for the stellar lineup below. 1️⃣ James Arthur @thruflo.com: CEO & Co-founder @electric-sql.com 2️⃣ Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com: GP & CTO @blueyard, author, musician 3️⃣ HanLin (Ranger) Chen: Building Elastik 🔗 lofi.so 🧵 👇

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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

inkandswitch.comLocal-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloudA new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
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3️⃣ HanLin (Ranger) Chen - EE at a cleantech startup in Sydney, will talk about "Elastik: curl is all you need" — a pastebin with HMAC that accidentally became a web OS.

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2️⃣ Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com - GP & CTO at @BlueYard.com Capital, author, open source contributor, and jazz musician, will discuss "The Phoenix Architecture, Freeq, and the future of version control" — safe generative software systems at scale

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excited to write, no i mean give, this talk! is this a spicy take: local-first needs atproto <3

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3️⃣ Arushi Bandi @offline.arushibandi.com - Left Figma to build Habitat, a platform for user data agency, will talk about "The Power of ATProtocol Local-First".