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22nd March 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.

This is a beat by Simon Willison, posted on 22nd March 2026.

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