Post-conf roundup: videos, photos, more
It’s been two weeks since Local-First Conf, and we’re still buzzing with the excitement from this new community.
Videos
The first batch of videos are live!
- Martin Kleppmann on his evolving definition of local-first ("infinite journey-proof apps") and a standardized sync protocol.
- Tuomas Artman on how his first lines of code for Linear were a sync engine, and how their dev team has gotten a productivity boost ever since.
- Johannes Schickling on why audiophiles want to own music, and how to reconcile data ownership with standard APIs from providers like Spotify and SoundCloud.
- Jack McCloy on local-first as a huge opportunity for dev teams and investors—partially due to changing user expectations about what constitutes a great user experience.
- Anselm Eikhoff with a live demo of building an Instagram post management tool, including live audience participation.
- Jess Martin on schemas one weird trick to get apps to interoperate with each other—without the developers needing to create bespoke integration.
The full playlist is here and we’ll continue to release the remaining videos as we edit them over the coming week. Big thanks to our videographers at Scéal: Cormac, Joey, and Josh.
Photos
Event photos taken by Florian Wagner are available here.
Feel free to use, but if you post publicly somewhere (e.g. a blog post) please include attribution: Local-First Conf 2024.
Post-event links
In the days following the conference, local-first had a little moment on Twitter and elsewhere—helping spread the message to new people. Just a sampling:
- Paul Butler write a thoughtful recap on the conference
- Adam Wiggins' organizer takeaways
- Aaron Boodman’s post-talk launch tweet
- Maggie Appleton’s post-talk tweet with slides
- Tuomas Artman throttled network demo
- Johnny Rodgers (former principal engineer at Slack) on local-first architecture
- Dax on developer dogma
- Jess Martin on the four unsolved problems of local-first
Thanks sponsors
Once more we’d like to thank our wonderful sponsors, who helped keep ticket prices low and made the videos possible.
- DXOS (foundation layer for cloudless, collaborative software)
- Heavybit (accelerator program for developer-first startups)
- PowerSync (Postgres and SQLite sync layer)
- Rocicorp (creator of multiplayer and sync infrastructure)
- Axil (agency focused on local-first software dev)
- Affine (workspace merging docs, whiteboards, and databases)
- CrabNebula (creator of Tauri, for deploying web technologies as desktop apps)
Organizers
Here’s our core organizing team with ways to follow them or get in touch:
- Johannes: X, website
- Emma: LinkedIn, Scéal
- Adam: X, website
- Johanna: LinkedIn, Scéal
- James: LinkedIn, ElectricSQL
- Peter van Hardenberg: X, website
Thanks again everyone! We'll send out a last email when all the videos are published.