







Local-First Software: Origins And Evolution
Developer interest in local-first software is continuing to grow rapidly in 2024. At the same time, it’s also apparent that developers currently have different views on what they consider to be ‘local-first software’, ranging from narrower to broader definitions. This prompted us to take a closer look at the origins and evolution of local-first.

Local-First Software Unconference · Luma
On Sat September 23, 2023, immediately following the Strange Loop conference, we are holding a community event for everybody interested in local-first software…
Growing a Profitable Podcast on Software Engineering
Hello! What's your background, and what are you working on? I'm Jeff Meyerson, the host of Software Engineering Daily. I grew up playing poker competiti...

A Local-First Case Study | jakelazaroff.com
How I built a local-first app for planning trips, and what I learned about the current state of the local-first ecosystem along the way.

Local-first Software
Exploring software architecture that returns data to users and enables collaboration in every tool.

Local-First Software | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
Peter Van Hardenberg - Local First: the secret master plan
Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it

What is Local-first Software?
A look at local-first software, the idea that you can have the collaboration of cloud apps while still fully owning your data.

The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development — Smashing Magazine
An honest perspective on building local-first web apps in 2026, written for developers who’ve been doing this long enough to be skeptical of silver bullets.

Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.

Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.

A podcast about local-first software development.