3️⃣ Schalk Venter - Product designer, engineer and FEDSA co-founder, presents "Local Curious: Exploring Local-First without the commitment" - why risk-averse teams hesitate, how to try local-first without a full rewrite, and practical partial implementations.

2️⃣ Kushagar Goel @KushagarGoel - Engineer at Juspay building payments infrastructure, presents "Bring local-first to your backend" - why caches, webhooks and alerts need to know when data changes, and how Streamgres, a Rust library, keeps your backend's queries live.

1️⃣ Steven Liechti @liechti_dev - CTO and solo founder of Koru Works, presents "Rust, iroh and CRDTs in a Local-first native workspace" - why he chose that stack, where notes apps fall short, and what's next for Koru: P2P collaboration, agents and self-hosted sync.

📣 Tune in for #LoFi/42 on Tuesday at 8 AM PDT (October 27). 1️⃣ Steven @liechti_dev: Rust, iroh and CRDTs in a native workspace 2️⃣ Kushagar @KushagarGoel: Bring local-first to your backend 3️⃣ Schalk Venter: Local-first without the commitment 🧵👇

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.

2️⃣ Jose Luis Olivares Esteban @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.

1️⃣ Alex Cheema @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.

📣 Tune in for #LoFi/40 on Tuesday at 9 AM PDT (August 25). 1️⃣ Alex @alexocheema: Local AI is good now 2️⃣ Jose @x39matrix: A post-quantum notary on Bitcoin 3️⃣ Jake jakeuribe.bsky.social: Local-first tools for research 🧵👇

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.

2️⃣ Kushagra Lakhwani @codesonpaper - 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.