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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

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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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

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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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

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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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

📣 Tune in for #LoFi/40 on Tuesday at 8 AM PDT (August 25). 1️⃣ Alex Cheema x.com/alexocheema Local AI is good now 2️⃣ Jose Luis x.com/x39matrix A post-quantum notary on Bitcoin 3️⃣ Jake jakeuribe.bsky.social Local-first tools for research 🧵👇

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

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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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

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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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

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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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

📣 Tune in for #LoFi39 on Tuesday at 8 AM PDT (July 28). 1️⃣ Jimmie @jimmie.me: Identity and sync for Myfield 2️⃣ Kushagra @codesonpaper.bsky.social: ResearchPocket sync over GitHub 3️⃣ Philip philschatz.com: Sharing docs without big tech 🧵👇

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Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 10/07/2026

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

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jazz.tools

Jazz - The database that syncs.

Announcing the Jazz v2 alpha!

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

3️⃣ Niko Bonnieure @nikobonnieure.bsky.social will talk about "ELFA: End-to-end encrypted local-first suite of apps". A malleable workspace with productivity tools and a private social network, built on NextGraph.

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

2️⃣ Malcolm Blaney @malcolmblaney.bsky.social, creator of Holster and RSStream, will discuss "Using Holster for local first apps". How he got into local-first, why distributed databases matter, and why he created Holster.

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

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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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

📣 Tune in for #LoFi/38 on Tuesday @ 8 AM PDT (June 30), for the awesome lineup below. 1️⃣ Kaichao @kaichao.keyring.so: Creator of MarkdownSync and Movedone 2️⃣ Malcolm @malcolmblaney.bsky.social: Creator of Holster and RSStream 3️⃣ Niko @nikobonnieure.bsky.social: Building ELFA on NextGraph 🧵👇

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

These meetups are made possible thanks to our wonderful sponsors: - jazz.tools?utm_source=lofi_so - electric-sql.com?utm_source=lofi_so - powersync.com?utm_source=lofi_so - vella.ai?utm_source=lofi_so

jazz.tools

Jazz - The database that syncs.

Announcing the Jazz v2 alpha!

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Join us live on Discord 💬 → discord.gg/lofi-so?even... or stream over YouTube: 📺 youtube.com/live/EV6pF4U...

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

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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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

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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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

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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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

📣 Tune in for #LoFi/37 on Tuesday @ 8 AM PDT (May 26), for the stellar lineup below. 1️⃣ Dongda x.com/@dongdongbh: Creator of Mindwtr 2️⃣ Samson x.com/@ssali_samson : Building SEYFR with iroh 3️⃣ Bryan bryrei.bsky.social : Building CoCube 🧵 👇

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Coming up soon, join us live on discord or YouTube

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Join us live on Discord 💬 → discord.gg/lofi-so?event=1497115053026181170 or stream over YouTube: 📺 youtube.com/live/PwqNWzu...

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

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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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

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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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

1️⃣ James Arthur @thruflo.com - CEO & Co-founder of @electric-sql.com, will talk about the next generation of agent infra, and what it takes to move agents from brittle harnesses into durable, wired loops.

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

📣 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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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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💭 arushi @offline.arushibandi.com · 28/03/2026

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

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

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Jazz - The database that syncs.

Jazz is a database that's distributed across your frontend, containers and functions. It syncs structured data, files and LLM streams instantly and looks like local reactive JSON state.

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

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".

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

2️⃣ Riken Shah @rikenshah.bsky.social - Founding engineer at Tasks (4.8+ rating, 700K+ users), built the entire sync engine from scratch, will discuss "The Memory Problem Nobody Talks About in Local-First".

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

1️⃣ Sai Vishwak Korimerla x.com/sai_vishwak_k - Building Liquidos.ai, a secure runtime for autonomous AI agents, will talk about "Building Edge-First AI Agents with Rust".

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

📣 LoFi/35 — Meetup 🎙️ 📅 Tuesday 3/31 @ 8:00AM PT 1️⃣ Sai x.com/sai_vishwak_k: Building Liquidos.ai — AI agents on cloud & edge 2️⃣ Riken @rikenshah.bsky.social Founding Eng at Tasks 3️⃣ Arushi @offline.arushibandi.com Left Figma to build Habitat for user data agency 🔗 LoFi.so/ 🧵 👇

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Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com · 12/03/2026

CfP is open! May 1 — CFP closes May 15 — candidates notified June 1 — speakers announced June 15 — schedule announced We want to hear from YOU!

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Yonz @yonz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

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