Adam Wiggins

Biggest and best @localfirstconf.com yet, IMO! Surprising emergent themes this year: geopolitics and EU digital sovereignty, and strong conflicting emotions on LLM-assisted coding. More: adamwiggins.com/posts/politi...

Apropos of nothing, if you're considering switching from a recently deprecated browser and want to try Firefox, I just landed `Copy Tab URL` in nightly - it's not bound by default but a quick visit to `about:keyboard` will let you set it, and also take a glance at the other neat shortcuts we have.

very nice talk by @maggieappleton.com. the demo at the end is a lot like the thing I am about to open source that lets agents in the terminal spin up arbitrary HTML pages that talk back to the agent

Local-First Conf is back! Mark your calendar for May 25–26, 2027 in Berlin. Join the waitlist and get notified when CFP & tickets go live: www.localfirstconf.com

As someone whose life spans multiple timezones, love this!

She's ready for you now. My first piece of software: https://www.mima.social/

Good thread on sandboxing as a critical primitive that (outside of maybe web browsers) we could do better on.

We released Pi 1.0! earendil.com/posts/pi-1-0/

Here it is—the final talk from our @localfirstconf.com Lab Day! After 10 years of Ink & Switch, Peter van Hardenberg @pvh.ca takes the long view. Why do we do research? Who does it serve? And what now, as the world gets weirder? How to Research Tools for Thought

Looking forward to this one

I’ve been diving into WAICT, a new cypherpunk spec for browsers. Even open-source local-first web apps have a chain-of-trust problem: a government could seize the domain, serve a malicious client, and steal your local database. blog.cloudflare.com/improving-th...

Today we bring you the second @localfirstconf.com Lab Day video. Follow Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com as she whirls through PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook It's a blank page in the truest sense, for pulling ideas out of your head so you can feel and think differently about them.

Outstanding new work on a composable and collaborative malleable computing environment from @inkandswitch.com!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UxG... * Same data, collaboratively edited in different tools! * Same tools, themselves collaboratively edited! (cont)

As a follow up to the @localfirstconf.com we are doing a unofficial local-first meetup in Cologne on the 15th of October. Maybe this can be a regular event where we can exchange knowledge? The two talks are to get the conversations started. If you are interested in joining, feel free to contact me.

A century before we would move from fixed-program computers to reprogrammable ones, Ada Lovelace realized that the Analytical Engine was capable of universal computation. Reading her Notes is thrilling for her awestruck articulation of these ideas. Available now; link in reply.

Today we're officially sharing the "Introducing Patchwork-26" video from Lab Day at this year's @localfirstconf.com We bring you the first look at Patchwork-26, the latest in our ongoing effort to realize Malleable Software, Universal Version Control, and Local-First Software.

Interesting thread about place names on Google Maps and international law

Screenshot diffing, feedback inboxes, PWAs, and of course local-first sync layer with self-hosted backend. Matches up pretty well with my approach on personal apps thus far into the LLM coding age. Curious to hear from others.

I’ll be there.

Thanks to the video from the Black Hat security conference of OpenAI's presentation about "The Hugging Face Incident" we now have a detailed timeline of what happened from OpenAI's perspective - I wrote up the details here, it's pretty wild simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/o...

The Local‑First Conf 2026 recap is live! Miss the vibe or curious about local‑first? Watch the 2 min video: youtu.be/DelQ1_ua2yY?...

@shupp.dev and I are hosting the first Local-First DC meetup on 9/2. Join us and meet other local-first enthusiasts in the DC area! luma.com/vfq3th6c

Missed first two days of localfirstconf in person so now videos are out I’ve been catching up. This talk by @jenson.org resonates the most with me. Now is the time we should be building new and novel system interfaces www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IOL...

talk recordings from this year's @localfirstconf.com are up! i thought the lineup was incredible and basically everything is worth watching. but in case you don't know where to start, here were some of the highlights for me:

my @localfirstconf.com talk is now on youtube! it's a love letter to plaintext weirdos, and a case for why the best way to build AI apps is to add zero AI features www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZEB...

My talk at @localfirstconf.com is up, in which I argue that local-first has a role to play in improving the resilience of democratic societies in an era of geopolitical tensions. I'm pretty happy with how this talk turned out www.youtube.com/watch?v=--Ru...

My LocalFirst talk is up! How the Desktop UX needs to evolve This is a "part 2" of my #ubuntu talk last year. This time with more demos! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IOL...

Tomorrow is the first regional Local First Meetup, happening in New York at the Radegast Hall & Biergarten (continuing a Berlin tradition!)

Announcing Wanix Elements! Now you can build virtual compute systems with just HTML. Some broad use cases: - let people try your CLI before downloading - build your own browser OS or dev env - make old apps/games work on the web - explore and play with plan 9 concepts Link below.

Delighted by the simplicity of @tldraw.com offline's initial screen

This week I spoke at @localfirstconf.com in Berlin. A lot of the audience had Claude Code open, and still applauded every time when a speaker would say something LLM-critical on stage. I feel the same. So I wrote it down: www.theocharis.dev/blog/llm-cri...

Had a fantastic time at @localfirstconf.com. Started off relatively stark with discussions acknowledging the general political instability of our times and how much data sovereignty matters. Ended with an absolutely wild demo of @inkandswitch.com's patchwork project. Lots of good bits in between.

leaving @localfirstconf.com feeling super inspired. three days of mind-bending talks and conversations with some of the smartest and most interesting people i know. so glad this community exists.

flying back from @localfirstconf.com, and wow what a stellar conference. This year's program was by far my fav lineup of any conf I've been to. Chaos day was great. Hats off to the organizers!

i kind of ended up at @localfirstconf.com on a whim, im adjacent to a lot folks in that space but not really a part of it. walked away after yesterday having never felt so enthused and energised after a conf. @inkandswitch.com in particular are something really special. if you can, go next year.

Really great to see everyone at dweb camp and @localfirstconf.com. Ton of atproto discussion! Also the p2p world showing a lot of excitement for iroh. Really exciting times

Day 2 @localfirstconf.com continues with the same level of intensity 🤯 First, @pfrazee.com gave us a tour of how to scale distributed systems. Now we’re learning about IMAP’s quirks and a new proposal (JMAP - yes JSON) from @fastmail.com