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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.bsky.social · 1d

It's a huge amount of work to run a CFP process, but also rewarding. Hope to write a debrief post about how we did it at some point.

Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 1d

It was agonizing to choose from among the 34 excellent submissions, but here are the four talks selected from our CFP process!

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chrisb @boscolo.co · 20d

The Holy Grail for web apps is when my Passkey can unlock local private data.

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.bsky.social · Sep 4

I think the DX piece—it just seems more fun to build this way.

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.bsky.social · Sep 4

I wrote about this including

- the benefits of synced apps for UX and DX
- how it plays with agentic apps and LLM-assisted coding
- the relationship to local first
- why I got involved with Sync Conf

adamwiggins.com/posts/why-sync

Why sync · Adam Wiggins

Web developers are discovering the joys of sync, including next-frame UIs, multiplayer by default, and a simplified stack.

adamwiggins.com

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sync seems to be having a moment among web developers!

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Boris @bmann.ca · Aug 19

I bought my ticket already and will be there!

Figuring out which of my colleagues at @inkandswitch.com might join us, and maybe a little community hacking alongside.

Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · Aug 19

Announcing Sync Conf 2025. Join us in SF on Nov 12th.

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.bsky.social · Aug 20

Have something to say about sync engines, local first, or sync as an enabler for AI agents? Submit your talk soon.

Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · Aug 20

CFP is open until end of August. Share your ideas and help shape the future of Sync.

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · Aug 19

Announcing Sync Conf 2025. Join us in SF on Nov 12th.

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.bsky.social · Aug 14

“The syncing model solves a fundamental challenge of most modern web apps out there, and it does it in a way that feels, well… better.”

frontendatscale.com/issues/50/

The Syncing Era of the Web | Frontend at Scale

The rise of sync engines, local-first development, and the end of the state management wars.

frontendatscale.com

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.bsky.social · Aug 11

“The concept is beautifully simple: instead of your app being a fancy form that sends data to a server, it has its own local database. Sometimes the server is just another client to sync with. It can be a fundamental inversion of how we build web applications.”

bytemash.net/posts/i-went...

Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole | Bytemash

A deep dive into local-first architecture, triggered by wondering why Linear feels so fast. Looking at the technical implementation, exploring tools like Jazz and Electric SQL, and explaining why my n...

bytemash.net

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.bsky.social · Aug 7

“It’s magical to update a row in Postgres and instantly see the UI reflect that change. This simplifies background tasks, makes multi-device and multi-user flows easier to reason about, and reduces boilerplate. Just write to Postgres and let the sync engine do the rest.”

neon.com/blog/tanstac...

TanStack DB with Sync - the future of real-time UI - Neon

Learn how to achieve end-to-end reactivity and optimistic UI updates with Electric SQL, TanStack DB, and Postgres.

neon.com

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.bsky.social · Aug 4

😍 Eng manager job working on storage APIs, workers, etc for Firefox. Relevant to improving local-first apps in the browser! www.mozilla.org/en-US/career...

Mozilla Careers — Engineering Manager, DOM (Web Standards) or SpiderMonkey (Javascript) — Open Positions

Mozilla is hiring a Engineering Manager, DOM (Web Standards) or SpiderMonkey (Javascript) in Remote US, Security, Security, Security, Strategy, Operations, Data & Ads,…

www.mozilla.org

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Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com · Aug 2

A helpful graph made by @stevekrouse.com on the inverse relationship between vibes and understanding in AI assisted code.

Put a few thoughts down here: maggieappleton.com/2025-08-vibe...

Original article: blog.val.town/vibe-code

A line chart with vibe on the Y axis and understanding on the X axis with a downwards diagonal line

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · Jul 30

📄✨ New paper! Emilie Ma (kewbi.sh) and I looked at the problem of users of end-to-end encrypted apps recovering their private keys if their device is lost, broken, or stolen. We found a cryptographic approach that is decentralised and resilient against social engineering arxiv.org/abs/2507.21122

Kintsugi: Decentralized E2EE Key Recovery

Kintsugi is a protocol for key recovery, allowing a user to regain access to end-to-end encrypted data after they have lost their device, but still have their (potentially low-entropy) password. Exist...

arxiv.org

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · Jul 23

Do you write TypeScript? Enjoy Automerge? Love building both tools and community? You might be a great fit for our ✨new✨ Automerge TypeScript Maintainer role!

www.inkandswitch.com/jobs/automer...

(Remote role, 🇬🇧 UK-based preferred but not required)

Automerge TypeScript Maintainer

Industrial research lab working on digital tools for creativity and productivity

www.inkandswitch.com

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pvh @pvh.ca · Jul 15

Automerge 3 is here: the heart transplant is complete! Huge improvements in memory usage and (in most cases) correspondingly big performance improvements too. Backwards compatible on disk and the network so there's no reason not to upgrade today: automerge.org/blog/automer...

Automerge 3.0 | Automerge CRDT

Automerge is a local-first data sync engine that makes it easy to build collaborative apps. Today we're excited to announce version 3.0 of Automerge!

automerge.org

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Beto @codewithbeto.dev · Jun 19

This pattern is at the core of how @livestore.dev handles sync, offline support, and conflict detection — and it’s been really fun diving deep into it while working on the upcoming course.

If you’ve ever wanted to build local-first apps that sync like magic, this approach is worth understanding.

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · Jun 10

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
www.inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps

The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can...

www.inkandswitch.com

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Andy Allen @andy.works · Jun 5

Introducing… (Not Boring) Camera

3 years, 100+ prototypes, and wild graphics tech to make our perfect camera. Only to say… forget perfection. Just have fun and capture life’s beautiful chaos. Hope you love it as much as we do—thumbprints and all 🖤

notbor.ing/camera

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · Jun 7

Nice impressions from @localfirstconf.com (photography by Susanne Elsässer)

Johannes Schicking, Nik Graf, Leo Stewen, and myself huddled around a laptop with stickers on it. More people in the background

Me on stage speaking as part of a panel, sitting next to Aaron Boodman

Panel discussion in front of an audience of hundreds at Local First Conf

Me standing and talking to Sam Willis in the conference hallway

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.bsky.social · Jun 5

Next week looking plausible! Editing is a surprising amount of work.

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.bsky.social · Jun 5

Continuing with organizer reflections: bsky.app/profile/adam...

Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.bsky.social · Jun 5

Reflections as an organizer of @localfirstconf.com this year

Twice the size (350+ people) and twice as much content (two full days of talks)

I think we did reasonably well on keeping quality up even as we scaled quantity!

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.bsky.social · Jun 5

Thanks everyone for coming and making it such a special event ❤️

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.bsky.social · Jun 5

Will there be a next year?

For 2025, me and the other organizers didn’t meet until November to decide on a sequel. 😅 This time we've already decided to return in 2026—not to mention the sister conference @syncconf.bsky.social‬ in SF this fall.

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.bsky.social · Jun 5

Last year we were still at the stage of “Oh, people are making money from making local-first software?!”

Now that fact is obvious, and we’ll have to balance vendor talks against more purist content going forward (like every other technical conference).

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