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aaronboodman.com
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.
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Had a really fun time talking to @thdxr.com and Adam about @zero.rocicorp.dev, Replicache, and how (and why!?) I came to spend the majority of my career working on sync. Hear the Rocicorp / Aaron backstory here: tomorrow.fm/126

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I have a close friend who runs search and rescue for the US coast guard in the pacific. You can't see at first when a system breaks down. A stress of some kind is required to show that it has hollowed out from inside. Let's just say now is not a good time to need help at sea.

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IVM go brr youtu.be/Y0X5I4WvlqA @zero.rocicorp.dev is a new sync engine built on incremental view maintenance (IVM). Sync has been used for years by projects like Linear, Notion, and Superhuman for insanely fast local-feeling UI. But they are notoriously difficult to build – years of effort.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

This song is one of my favorite musical discoveries of last month or so. Absolutely love the groove. Bass sound is _on_ _point_. But really the entire thing is just perfect. So shimmery.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I've been playing around with @zero.rocicorp.dev ! The data management is so easy that I can spend time polishing the UI with nice little effect 🤩

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

🩷 Special valentine's day Zero release 😊🎶👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7S8...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

I instituted a weekly release policy for @zero.rocicorp.dev and I had no idea how much pressure that simple change would create for everyone, incl me as release manager. Mostly a good pressure, but still.

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I've found that novelty is like 50% of marketing. People learn to detect and filter out cliches quickly. And it makes sense: if you describe your product the same way as everyone else, the product itself is also probably uninteresting. Find a new way to say it. Find a new way to show it.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I basically live in iOS "focus" mode now, and batch communications at a few points in my day. It's incredibly refreshing. Highly recommended.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Hate to give away our secrets, but if your product takes the form of an npm library, get you a canary build script. You should be able to push a button and get the user a build from trunk, fully automated. One of the best effort-to-value things I've ever built: github.com/rocicorp/mon...

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Short, off-the-cuff video of how Zero works. Made for someone in our Discord, but I thought people here may be interested: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoet...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not complaining but they done made these chips too good. I still have this one and still can't believe how fast it is. No need to upgrade.

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

Why do release note have to be boring? Trying something new ... 🙃

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Sync engines enable web apps with: - instant (< 1ms) interactions - full-stack reactivity - dramatically simpler dx Despite this, sync hasn't taken off because it doesn't generalize to more complex apps. I'll be speaking about how @zero.rocicorp.dev solves this next week. Come check it out!

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Unrelated weekend post. My daughter has gotten into outrigger canoe paddling (it is what kids do here) so for her birthday we’re doing an 8 mile open water race together - our longest yet. If you don’t hear from me after this you’ll know what happened 😆.

submitted 45 days ago • 3 comments

Microsoft accidentally created a whole new subdiscipline of ui design with typescript types.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Join me at React Miami to talk sync! www.reactmiami.com/speakers/boo... People become UI devs because they love making beautiful things. React won originally because it intensified that joy – distilled it – delivered more "creation buzz"/second. It did so by getting rid of a bunch of drudge work.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Happy new year. Looking forward to making a lot of web apps a lot faster in 2025.

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments