Simon Willison’s Weblog

Subscribe
Atom feed for bram-cohen

3 posts tagged “bram-cohen”

2026

Tool Merge State Visualizer — # CRDT Merge State Visualizer

Bram Cohen wrote about his coherent vision for the future of version control using CRDTs, illustrated by 470 lines of Python.

I fed that Python (minus comments) into Claude and asked for an explanation, then had it use Pyodide to build me an interactive UI for seeing how the algorithms work.

2007

A look back: Bram Cohen vs Linus Torvalds. Makes the case that Git has proved Linus Torvald correct on every point of his infamous debate with Bram Cohen back in 2005.

# 17th July 2007, 10:29 pm / 2005, bram-cohen, debate, git, linus-torvalds, version-control, wincent-colaiuta

2004

Codeville (via) Not content with revolutionising file distribution, Bram “BitTorrent” Cohen has his sights set on CVS.

# 20th February 2004, 3:38 am / bram-cohen