Aaron Boodman
@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.
Come for the fast UI, stay for the spontaneous dance party at 0:05: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV6a...
Absurdly Fast Apps with Zero
YouTube video by Scott Tolinski
youtube.com
This is a great question. Real-world permissions was a core motivation for Zero. The short answer is Zero security works just like traditional web app security. Reads flow through your server, and your server controls the queries that sync. See zero.rocicorp.dev/docs/auth#pe...
Zero to 1.0 After two years of work, 50+ releases, thousands of commits, and hundreds of bugfixes, we are officially declaring Zero stable and ready for production workloads. zero.rocicorp.dev/docs/release...
Zero 1.0
First Stable Release
zero.rocicorp.dev
We are exceptionally proud of the work in 0.25. Totally reworked DX that feels so nice, and a real query planner – bringing the original "just do queries" vision of Zero to life.
Zero@zero.rocicorp.dev · 8mo agoHave not posted here in a loooong while. Sorry! Zero 0.25 is out: * Completely overhauled query / mutator DX * Rewritten and simplified docs * New install guide * Automatic query planning 🤯 – much better perf, without manual query tuning ... and much, much more: zero.rocicorp.dev/docs/release...
Find something you love the way this guy loves chord shapes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa6t...
Play All Over The Ukulele Neck With Just Four Shapes
YouTube video by Phil Doleman
youtube.com
Come see four different perspectives on sync duke it out live on stage.
Sync Conf@syncconf.bsky.social · 10mo agoThe panel at Sync Conf 2025 brings together @tannerlinsley.com, @jamescowling.dev, @schickling.dev and @aaronboodman.com for a deep dive into challenges and tradeoffs between the technical approaches being explored in sync today.
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.
King Medicine
YouTube video by Jets To Brazil - Topic
youtube.com
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.
Aaron Boodman@aaronboodman.com · last yr.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 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...
making-friends.md
GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
gist.github.com
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!
Local-First Conf@localfirstconf.com · last yr.We’re thrilled to announce @aaronboodman.com from Rocicorp will be back as a speaker at this year Local-First Conf talking about the technology behind Zero.
Quick demo of Zero's new Background Queries More information in thread below 👇
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
How About Tomorrow? | Aaron Boodman on Building Zero, Local-First, and Living in Hawaii
Aaron Boodman joins us to chat about his tech journey from building Greasemonkey, working on Google Chrome, being obsessed with sync on the web, Replicache, to his new project, Zero.Links:The Expan...
tomorrow.fm
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.
IVM go brr
YouTube video by Aaron Boodman
youtu.be
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.
Aaron Boodman@aaronboodman.com · last yr.🩷 Special valentine's day Zero release 😊🎶👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7S8...
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...
Zero 0.15 - the vday edition
YouTube video by Aaron Boodman
youtube.com
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...
CleanShot 2025 02 06 at 13 58 48
YouTube video by Aaron Boodman
youtube.com
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.
