Aaron Boodman on Building Zero, Local-First, and Living in Hawaii
How About Tomorrow?
2025/03/03
Aaron Boodman on Building Zero, Local-First, and Living in Hawaii
Aaron Boodman on Building Zero, Local-First, and Living in Hawaii
How About Tomorrow?
2025/03/03
Unprocessed episode, you can be the first!
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 Expanse (novel series) - Wikipedia
- Zero
- Zero Bugs
- Greasemonkey - Wikipedia
- Linear – Plan and build products
- Bun — A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime
- SST
- Mongo Zero Adapter
Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord. Or send us an email at sliceoffalittlepieceofbacon@tomorrow.fm.
Topics:
- (00:00) - He waved
- (00:29) - Looking like Hawaii
- (09:34) - Introducing Aaron Boodman
- (14:34) - Aaron's journey in tech
- (27:50) - Why is Aaron addicted to sync?
- (43:04) - The struggles of marketing tech
- (51:22) - Where does Zero fit in my tech stack?
- (56:37) - Do you install a package on your server to use Zero?
- (01:01:46) - If you have a lot of data, can you parse what to send down?
- (01:09:03) - Why more people should use Zero
