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Kyle Mathews @kyle.bricolage.io · Aug 19

My favorite type of conference — 1 day, single track with a ton of great folks to chat with

Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

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Sam Willis @samwillis.uk · Aug 19

I've got my ticket!
Who else is going to @syncconf.bsky.social?

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Sam Willis @samwillis.uk · Aug 19

Really looking forward to Sync Conf!
We are at an epoch moment with AI, everything is changing, and the abstractions we build on are chaining to enable it.
Sync is that abstraction, and this conference is going to be one that is remembered as instrumental.

Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

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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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Sam Willis @samwillis.uk · Aug 16

We've talked about it, but it would likely be tied to a spesific over-the-write protocol for the change messages.
Instead we were thinking it would be the ideal one for a "custom sync collection guide", showing how the internal sync abstraction works.
Becomes copy-past for each implementation too.

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ElectricSQL @electric-sql.com · Aug 14

We've just delivered a 100x write performance bump with our latest release of Electric. How? We threw away our storage engine and built a new one designed for sync 🧵

electric-sql.com/blog/2025/08...

Electric 1.1: new storage engine with 100x faster writes | ElectricSQL

How we built a new storage engine for Electric, why we did it now, and how it delivers lower latency, higher throughput, and zero‑downtime deploys.

electric-sql.com

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James Arthur @thruflo.com · Aug 14

Agentic AI, beneath all the hype, is actually just normal software. You can build agentic systems with a database, standard web tooling and real-time sync.

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Kyle Mathews @kyle.bricolage.io · Aug 14

You can just write to a database

James Arthur @thruflo.com · Aug 14

Agentic AI, beneath all the hype, is actually just normal software. You can build agentic systems with a database, standard web tooling and real-time sync.

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Sam Willis @samwillis.uk · Aug 15

Dev tools coming soon to @tanstack.com DB!
The best client side state libs have brilliant dev tools, this is even more important for DB as you store so much state in it.
The DB dev tools will give you full visibility of all collections and live queries. 🚀🎉

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ElectricSQL @electric-sql.com · Aug 4

ElectricSQL recently completed a 120-day reliability sprint. Our one goal: make our sync engine so boring-reliable you stop thinking about it and just build.

We chased every incident, fixed every user-reported bug, and made unglamorous work our priority. 🧵

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Sam Willis @samwillis.uk · Jul 29

Very excited to have reached the Beta milestone with @tanstack.com DB 🚀🎉
It’s been a privilege to work with @tannerlinsley.com and the team on building this, absolute rock stars!

Kyle Mathews @kyle.bricolage.io · Jul 29

TanStack DB is now in BETA!

We’ve been working on TanStack DB, an embedded, reactive client database for TanStack Query, and are proud to announce today that with the 0.1 release that it's now in BETA!

tanstack.com/blog/tanstac...

Stop Re-Rendering — TanStack DB, the Embedded Client Database for TanStack Query | TanStack Blog

Your React dashboard shouldn't grind to a halt just because one TODO turns from ☐ to ☑. Yet every optimistic update still kicks off a cascade of re-renders, filters, useMemos and spinner flashes. If y...

tanstack.com

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Kyle Mathews @kyle.bricolage.io · Jul 25

🎉 TanStack DB now has @solidjs.com support!

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Sam Willis @samwillis.uk · Jul 24

💯

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Sam Willis @samwillis.uk · Jul 24

I will not pretend there were no complaints!

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Kyle Mathews @kyle.bricolage.io · Jul 23

TanStack DB now has @svelte.dev support!

<script lang="ts">
import { useLiveQuery } from "@tanstack/svelte-db"
import { eq } from "@tanstack/db"
import { todoCollection } from "$lib/collections"

const todosQuery = useLiveQuery((query) =>
query
.from({ todos: todoCollection })
.where(({ todos }) => eq(todos.completed, false))
)
</script>

<List items={todosQuery.data} />

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Sam Willis @samwillis.uk · Jul 24

French alps 🏔️
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Sam Willis @samwillis.uk · Jul 24

This is the French Alps - starting point Les Carroz, a beautiful chocolate box village at about 1200m. Only about a hour from Geneva.
I love the alps even move in the summer than in the winter. You'll visit once, and just keep coming back.

Sam Willis @samwillis.uk · Jul 24

French alps 🏔️
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Sam Willis @samwillis.uk · Jul 24

This is the French Alps - starting point Les Carroz, a beautiful chocolate box village at about 1200m. Only about a hour from Geneva.
I love the alps even move in the summer than in the winter. You'll visit once, and just keep coming back.

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Sam Willis @samwillis.uk · Jul 24

French alps 🏔️
bsky.app/profile/samw...

Sam Willis @samwillis.uk · Jul 24

This is the French Alps - starting point Les Carroz, a beautiful chocolate box village at about 1200m. Only about a hour from Geneva.
I love the alps even move in the summer than in the winter. You'll visit once, and just keep coming back.

Sam Willis @samwillis.uk · Jul 24

This is the French Alps - starting point Les Carroz, a beautiful chocolate box village at about 1200m. Only about a hour from Geneva.
I love the alps even move in the summer than in the winter. You'll visit once, and just keep coming back.

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Sam Willis @samwillis.uk · Jul 23

Perfect lunch stop with the family after a 3hr hike! 😊

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Sam Willis @samwillis.uk · Jul 14

PGlite (WASM Postgres) now gets over 1 million downloads a week! 🤯🚀
Absolutely incredible to see how people have embraced what we have built.
Awesome work by the team!

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Sam Willis @samwillis.uk · Jul 14

PGlite (WASM Postgres) now gets over 1 million downloads a week! 🤯🚀
Absolutely incredible to see how people have embraced what we have built.
Awesome work by the team!

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Sam Willis @samwillis.uk · Jul 4

Les Carroz in the French Alps. Love it even more in the summer than in the winter.
So many great day trips, walks and activities for the kids.

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Sam Willis @samwillis.uk · Jul 4

Home for the next few weeks 😁
Love the 🏔️ in the summer!

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Sam Willis @samwillis.uk · Jun 30

Really looking forward to Sync London tomorrow!
A bunch of exciting talks from teams building real apps on sync engines 🚀🥳

James Arthur @thruflo.com · Jun 29

Not long now!
lu.ma/sync-london

Talks are shaping up great and we’re well past venue capacity. @yonz.bsky.social is airborne. @samwillis.uk has sorted out the pineapple cubes and cocktail sausages.

If you’re in London on Tuesday and have been lurking so far, now’s your last chance!

Sync London · Luma

Interesting in building products on a local-first / sync engine architecture? Come along to the first Sync London, a meetup to learn and talk about better ways…

lu.ma

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