Local First Software Is Easier to Scale

The title of this post is somewhat misleading. Local-first software rarely needs to be scaled at all.

Wow this is pretty great! #localfirstsoftware #lofisoftware

www.localfirst.fm/landscape

Local-First Landscape

Navigate the local-first landscape and build something great!

Local-First Landscape

Navigate the local-first landscape and build something great!

🎩 Ah, the age-old "Local-First Software is the shiny new knight" tale, where #databases are the misunderstood protagonists in a techie soap opera no one auditioned for. 🤖 Spoiler alert: it's a #JavaScript jamboree with enough buzzwords to power a small startup, yet still manages to trip over its own limitations while chasing its offline dreams. 🚀
https://rxdb.info/articles/local-first-future.html #LocalFirstSoftware #TechBuzz #OfflineFirst #HackerNews #ngated
Why Local-First Software Is the Future and its Limitations | RxDB - JavaScript Database

Discover how local-first transforms web apps, boosts offline resilience, and why instant user feedback is becoming the new normal.

Why Local-First Software Is the Future and its Limitations | RxDB - JavaScript Database

Discover how local-first transforms web apps, boosts offline resilience, and why instant user feedback is becoming the new normal.

Question to people who have or want to start a local digital music collection: What do you want from a naming convention?

I had a planned naming convention, but I want to make sure the program I’m working on is useful to other people. My existing goal was to make a naming convention that is unlikely to be rejected, will be sorted sanely by even the most basic systems, and is consistently machine-readable.

My solution was to have the file name be a series of structured “tags.” For example:

  • BY-lemon-demon_IN-dinosaurchestra_NO-02_action-movie-hero-boy.flac

Tags can be used zero or more times in one file name and in any order, except the title which must be used only once and at the end. Tags should go from the most general grouping (usually an artist name) to the most specific part (the title). This way songs that are in the same category will be grouped together.

Is this a good naming convention for you, and what would you do differently?

#music #localfirst #localfirstsoftware #foss #DJJerry #MP3 #FLAC #software

#introduction
I’ve been here a year or more, though a variety of accounts. I don’t post very much and I don’t aspire to post any certain amount. I’ve always felt young for my age but clearly aging now. While I feel like I’m a good person with interesting ideas I know that I’m a product of my environment so I’m suspicious of any strokes of genius I have.

If I were posting freely i would be talking about #linux #permaculture #permacomputing #ssb #localfirstsoftware #localfirst #parenting

zelf (@[email protected])

My thesis on P4P is finally online! https://doi.org/10.17613/naj7d-6g984 P4P: Steps Toward more Adaptive Internets: charting Open-Source, P2P and Local-First Networks

Sunbeam City 🌻

Check it out!

Local-First Conf 2025 has been announced for May 27th - 28th

Tickets are now officially on sale:

localfirstconf.com

@localfirstconf #LocalFirstSoftware

Last talk before LoFi hacking is @daffl talking about his DWeb chat app that we are using as the backchannel for the event this weekend 💬

#LoFiWKND #DWebYVR #LocalFirstSoftware