The home for the communities of open source developers, engineers, researchers and designers who love and do Local First software.
Organizing the Local First devroom at FOSDEM'26 in Brussels. 1st Feb 2026.
https://openlocalfirst.org
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Software author on a lifelong quest to reimagine the systems we’ve inherited. He/him. Safe person. Local-first software/event sourcing/hypermedia nerd.
Working to make computers better. Cofounder of Ink & Switch, Heroku, Muse, Local First Conf.
Associate Professor at @cst.cam.ac.uk, researching decentralised systems and security protocols. Advisor to the Bluesky team. Wrote “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” (O’Reilly). he/him
just this guy, you know? (director of research @ ink & switch, coined "local-first", contributor to automerge, former postgres guy, heroku staff, ex-game developer, arctic oceanographer.)
Client-centric local-first data layer for high-performance apps. Currently in private preview via https://github.com/livestorejs.
🇨🇦 Vancouver
💍 @katiewilde.com
🏢 @inkandswitch.com
🎟️ @ucan.xyz
🔰 Always learning
💡 Woke AF
🏳️🌈 Heckin' sapphic
🏳️⚧️ Protect trans kids
✊ BLM/Land Back/Antifa
📝 notes.brooklynzelenka.com
🐘 types.pl/@expede
👩🏼💻 github.com/expede
🏔️ codeberg.org/expede
CEO rocicorp.dev. Building replicache.dev and zerosync.dev, raising two great kids, trying to be a better person. Also found at http://aaronboodman.com.
Building a local-first music app overtone.pro with @livestore.dev. Host @localfirst.fm. DX Effect. Founded @prisma.io. schickling.dev
@convex.dev co-founder/CTO. Dropbox storage designer. Distributed systems researcher at MIT. Bad motorcycle mechanic. Database shill.
⚔️ Sir Tan @TanStack.com 🎉 TypeScript 🌎 Web ⚛️Open Source Software💡UI/UX/DX 💼Co-Founder @NozzleIO 👨👩👧👦@Ch_JesusChrist
Connect with a rapidly-growing Local-First community. Join us for our other conf @syncconf.bsky.social happening Nov 12, 2025 in San Francisco.
www.localfirstconf.com
Sync Conf is a boutique conference on the future of real-time, collaborative, agentic software development. 12th Nov2025 in SF.
https://syncconf.dev/ | View talks: https://tinyurl.com/mr3yzxea
An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought.
We envision a new computer that amplifies human intelligence. A system that helps you think more clearly, collaborate more effectively, and is available anywhere and anytime.
Film & Media,
Falafel 🥙 Lover, Style campaigner, Geopolitics geek
