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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com · 21/09/2026

I'm in the market for a "team brain" for a small company (<10 people). Wishes: - Ability to dump in PDFs, spreadsheets, text files, URLs, etc - Fast, accurate, and up-to-date search to answer questions like "where's the latest employment contract template?"

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 17/09/2026

Here it is—the final talk from our @localfirstconf.com Lab Day! After 10 years of Ink & Switch, Peter van Hardenberg @pvh.ca takes the long view. Why do we do research? Who does it serve? And what now, as the world gets weirder? How to Research Tools for Thought

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How to Research Tools for Thought

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com · 16/09/2026

Looking forward to this one

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.es · 15/09/2026

I’ve been diving into WAICT, a new cypherpunk spec for browsers. Even open-source local-first web apps have a chain-of-trust problem: a government could seize the domain, serve a malicious client, and steal your local database. blog.cloudflare.com/improving-th...

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 15/09/2026

Today we bring you the second @localfirstconf.com Lab Day video. Follow Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com as she whirls through PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook It's a blank page in the truest sense, for pulling ideas out of your head so you can feel and think differently about them.

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PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook

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Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org · 09/09/2026

Outstanding new work on a composable and collaborative malleable computing environment from @inkandswitch.com!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UxG... * Same data, collaboratively edited in different tools! * Same tools, themselves collaboratively edited! (cont)

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Introducing Patchwork-26

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Jeremy Theocharis @theocharis.dev · 03/09/2026

As a follow up to the @localfirstconf.com we are doing a unofficial local-first meetup in Cologne on the 15th of October. Maybe this can be a regular event where we can exchange knowledge? The two talks are to get the conversations started. If you are interested in joining, feel free to contact me.

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Alexander Obenauer @alexanderobenauer.com · 01/09/2026

A century before we would move from fixed-program computers to reprogrammable ones, Ada Lovelace realized that the Analytical Engine was capable of universal computation. Reading her Notes is thrilling for her awestruck articulation of these ideas. Available now; link in reply.

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 31/08/2026

Today we're officially sharing the "Introducing Patchwork-26" video from Lab Day at this year's @localfirstconf.com We bring you the first look at Patchwork-26, the latest in our ongoing effort to realize Malleable Software, Universal Version Control, and Local-First Software.

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Introducing Patchwork-26

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com · 31/08/2026

Interesting thread about place names on Google Maps and international law

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com · 30/08/2026

Screenshot diffing, feedback inboxes, PWAs, and of course local-first sync layer with self-hosted backend. Matches up pretty well with my approach on personal apps thus far into the LLM coding age. Curious to hear from others.

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com · 23/08/2026

Enjoying the Everyday Abundance podcast: abundance.institute/EverydayAbun... Latest episode about the social technologies that makes car travel possible (signs, road rules, fuel standards, etc) was a great one.

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Everyday Abundance — Abundance Institute

The Everyday Abundance podcast explores the hidden histories behind everyday activities and the technologies we don't even know are technologies. Virginia Postrel and Charles Mann dive into the surpri...

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 08/08/2026

Thanks to the video from the Black Hat security conference of OpenAI's presentation about "The Hugging Face Incident" we now have a detailed timeline of what happened from OpenAI's perspective - I wrote up the details here, it's pretty wild simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/o...

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Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about “the Hugging Face Incident” (previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It’s short and information...

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Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com · 06/08/2026

The Local‑First Conf 2026 recap is live! Miss the vibe or curious about local‑first? Watch the 2 min video: youtu.be/DelQ1_ua2yY?...

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Local-First Conf 2026 Recap

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James Parker @jprider63.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

@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

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Local-First DC: Meet and greet · Luma

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Luke Hubbard @lukeinth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

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...

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

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Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com · 01/08/2026

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:

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Local-First Conf 2026 - YouTube

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T4T5 @t4t5.com · 31/07/2026

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...

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

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 31/07/2026

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...

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Martin Kleppmann — Local-first in an unstable world

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Scott Jenson @jenson.org · 31/07/2026

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...

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

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com · 31/07/2026

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...

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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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Jeff Lindsay @progrium.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

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.

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com · 17/07/2026

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

Screenshot of "tldraw offline" with only two menu items, New file and Open file

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Jeremy Theocharis @theocharis.dev · 15/07/2026

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...

Jeremy Theocharis on stage at Local-First Conf 2026

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Laura ✨ @handle.invalid · 16/07/2026

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

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Justin @just-be.dev · 16/07/2026

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.

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Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com · 15/07/2026

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.

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b5 @b5.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

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!

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hayleigh @hayleigh.dev · 15/07/2026

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.

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 13/07/2026

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

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Ilja @fubits.dev · 13/07/2026

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

Paul Frazee on stage with a slide about high scale architectures:

Many services
Decoupled workloads
Database/on-disk variety
Event queues & replication
Canonical v cached

Ricardo Signes showing how IMAP email protocol works

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Eileen (╹◡╹) @bumble.blue · 13/07/2026

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.

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Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com · 13/07/2026

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

Boris Mann badge laying on wooden table - ink & Switch, no Caesar, tangled, malleable software, automerge, Bluesky, Goodstuff Goosetopher

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com · 05/07/2026

Version control for game development!

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com · 29/06/2026

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

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

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com · 26/06/2026

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!

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com · 26/06/2026

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.

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com · 25/06/2026

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.

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Intercept

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

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com · 23/06/2026

“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?”

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com · 22/06/2026

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

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.com · 21/06/2026

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

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the art of programming why i was wrong about llm

llm can't replace competence

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NaNdi @nandi.uk · 20/06/2026

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

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Johannes Schickling @schickling.dev · 20/06/2026

I’ve been building my own software factory over the past year. It again changed the way how I do software engineering fundamentally - similar delta compared to coding by hand vs using agents. I’m thinking of writing a blog post about it. What are your biggest questions?

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Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org · 17/06/2026

I created Sparkle a lifetime ago, when I was seventeen. Then I moved onto other things, and kind maintainers dutifully kept that original intrusive modal UI going for two decades. (!!)

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Philipp Pohl-Krüger @matheus23.com · 16/06/2026

Also - it's hard for us to compute the number of "this connection holepunches, but this doesn't", because the network conditions can change during the course of a connection due to moving between networks (Wifi -> cellular, etc.). That's why we mostly measure the ration of direct vs. relayed traffic

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