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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…

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…

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 Though it is now somewhat outdated (e.g., Chrome forked WebKit into Blink in 2013, and I don’t even…

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…