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boom
Ruby2010–2013
holman / boom

boom

Motherfucking TEXT SNIPPETS! On the COMMAND LINE!

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What it is

Motherfucking TEXT SNIPPETS! On the COMMAND LINE!

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2010-11-27 19:10:44 UTC to 2013-09-10 12:38:02 UTC.

012010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20102011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20112012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2013

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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nyddle·Sep 10, 2013Submission

Share code/.bash_history between terminals (and store it securely in the cloud)

We are building a tool for developers who work in many terminals and want to easily sync data/code snippets/bash history between them. Think https://github.com/holman/boom in the cloud. We would love to hear about your pain points working in many terminal windows to make our tool better.<p>If you need such a tool, please sign up at http://getboosh.launchrock.com/
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