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Aaron Boodman
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·Jan 12, 2021

Houseboats not Yachts

Note: It’s weird to publish this article now. The world is going through some terrifying times. Weirdly, those terrible things unfold slowly, and mostly distantly from our family. So in the present, life goes on. Kids go to school, work gets done, lessons are learned. A little different, but a…

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Houseboats not Yachts
Houseboats not Yachts

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Aug 3, 2016

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https://medium.com/@aboodman/noms-init-98b7f0c3566#.xhl7wfpqf

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Aug 2, 2016

`noms init`

In 2013, I discovered Camlistore and began feverishly hacking on it. I really loved the vision: a personal, automatically-organized archive of all your data, forever. But as I was working on Camlistore, I kept thinking that the project really needed a different kind of database — one with versioning, deduplication…

Data Science

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`noms init`
`noms init`
Data Science

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Oct 28, 2015

Why is software so complicated?

I often hear people ask this. Sometimes the question also takes the form of an accusation: “If (cars|houses|bridges) were like computers…” Joking aside, I think it’s important to remember that software is complicated by design. The entire purpose of software is to be complicated. In the beginning, there was hardware…

Software Development

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Software Development

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Sep 23, 2015

How Chromium Works

In March 2011, I drafted an article explaining how the team responsible for Google Chrome ships software. Then I promptly forgot about it. I stumbled across the draft a few days ago. Though it is now somewhat outdated (e.g., Chrome forked WebKit into Blink in 2013, and I don’t even…

Chrome

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Chrome

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May 1, 2015

Maui: I Get it Now

I didn’t want to go to Maui. I pictured hotel packages, annoying tourists, condoplexes, and Hard Rock Cafes. I tried to get my wife to consider alternatives like Croatia, Greece, Central America, or New Zealand. But they were all too far away, too hot, too dirty, or had other downsides…

Maui

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Maui: I Get it Now
Maui: I Get it Now
Maui

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