I've never tried heroin but I sometimes reflect on descriptions I have read. Users do not describe the rush of euphoria that I know from, err, other substances but more of a warm, slow glow from within. I have heard it described as a "hug from inside"... 🧵

Sigh. The "AI friends" thing on other networks is incredibly depressing. I cannot believe we're going there. I mean I can. It's where the money leads. But I can't.

Every so often I come back to this album and I just cannot process how beautiful the writing is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEnb... Both the lyrics and the music. The interplay between the lead guitar and the bass here is just gorgeous.

We had a July 4 cookout, as is our tradition. One of big man's friends came and they sat in the water and talked pokemon and minecraft the entire time. I'm still smiling about this four days later.

I am once again asking for your support in my bid to destroy all leaf blowers.

I wrote this a few months ago and have been trying to figure out what to do with it. Realized that bsky seems like the appropriate place to share: gist.github.com/aboodman/db5...

I can’t explain it, but Germany has the best hardware in the world. I feel this way every time I visit. Listen to the satisfying CLICK here. Omg 🤤. Follow for more hardware porn as I encounter it on this trip…

Last year at Local-First Conf, we announced @zero.rocicorp.dev to the world. Now that it's real, I'm going to back to talk about how it's made. Hope to see you there!

Quick demo of Zero's new Background Queries More information in thread below 👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Q3... You are welcome.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 🤩

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

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.

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.

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

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...

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...

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.

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

Featuring: Hakan Shehu, Colanode, Michiel de Jong, Unhost, @aaronboodman.com, Zero Sync, Carl Assmann, @anselm.io, @jazz.tools, JSnation, @alexgarcia.xyz, @restatedev.bsky.social, @tom-delalande.bsky.social, Audrey Sitnik, @fosdem.bsky.social, TriplitDB, playbit, @jacobbolda.com...

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!

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 😆.

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

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.

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

Missed this when you originally posted it 😆

Ah yes, the Windows experience. I remember this.

Find you a job to love the way Mason Ho loves surfing. www.instagram.com/p/DD76jQhzmRD/ www.instagram.com/p/DDiQiOjSmzG/

I will die on this hill. UI must respond in the next frame.

First Zero update already out, < 18h since launch :).

The most annoying problem for Zero's launch was what bug tracker to use. GitHub is way too slow, and Linear doesn't have public bugs or permissions – both required for OSS projects. This was driving me nuts, until I realized the only possible solution… ⏩ bugs.rocicorp.dev/issue/0

The Hōkūleʻa is visiting my town this week. We went to check it out. When you need inspiration, remember that hundreds of years ago humans explored the entire Pacific Ocean without electronics or machines. It’s so unbelievable that they had to recreate it to prove it was possible. hokulea.com

I mean what the actual ...

People seemed interested in this post, so I'll expand slightly. Building developer tools is insanely hard because many (most?) software engineers would build developer tools if they had their choice. When I started out as a programmer, my dream was to work at Microsoft on Visual Studio, or .Net.

Gillian, as always, said it better: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV_u... > Everything is free now > That's what they say > Everything I ever done > Gonna give it away > Someone hit the big score > They figured it out > That we're gonna do it anyway > Even if it doesn't pay

I look back on my posts from when I started Rocicorp and am mortified. I was so naive about what starting a developer tools company is and the level of play. Hopefully I don’t feel the same about today’s posts in four years.

🌶️: Networked apps that are intended to be used offline commonly should have custom, first-class UX for offline. Not just merge UI. Not an edge case. Every time you go offline there should be the equiv of trumpets and fanfare. You should know you're going offline, and what that means.

For those seeking 'work life balance': try letting your kids in. From dinner convo last night: Me: I'm worried about getting the release done. We can definitely do it, I'm just tired 😅. Need to summon the energy somehow. Abby: You can do it daddy! 💪🏽 Sam: OK what are the exact steps needed? 1/?

We have started to experience users memeing on our behalf and I have to say it's pretty freaking epic.

I’m thankful for JavaScript, the web, and all of you. This has been fun. Glad to be a part of it.

People keep asking if there is a need for new UI frameworks for local-first apps. There is! But it's not the stuff people are thinking. It's not adapting fetch and caching to local-first. These problems are mostly solved inherently by local-first. The real problems are different...

Release automation. One of my happy places.

Sweet lord. I dare you to watch this and not feel something. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_25...

Playing with new complex `or` and subquery filters in Zero: vimeo.com/1030614913