> something that is truly local-first

Hey, we built coderunner[1] exactly for this purpose. It's completely local. We use apple containers for this (which are 1:1 mapped to a lightweight VM).

1. Coderunner - https://github.com/instavm/coderunner

Very cool! Apple containers run on Apple ARM so it's complimentary to my stack which doesn't support ARM yet (but soon will when extending to Qemu which supports ARM). Thanks for sharing!