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871 Posts, 142 Following, 1.04K Followers · nyc-based programmer. @recursecenter alum. public transit enjoyer. thoughts on local-first, javascript frameworks,...
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Taming the Tech Giants | jakelazaroff.com
The web was built with the promise of giving everyone a voice. We keep that promise not by forcing gatekeepers to play fair, but by getting rid of them...
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https://jakelazaroff.com/words/things-that-didnt-kill-my-app/
Things That Didn’t Kill My App | jakelazaroff.com
Distilling almost two years of running this thing into a single lesson is hard, but here’s my shot: the most important factor in SongRender’s success has...
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Web Components Will Outlive Your JavaScript Framework | jakelazaroff.com
If we're building things that we want to work in five or ten or even 20 years, we need to avoid dependencies and use the web with no layers in between.
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https://jakelazaroff.com/words/a-local-first-case-study/
A Local-First Case Study | jakelazaroff.com
How I built a local-first app for planning trips, and what I learned about the current state of the local-first ecosystem along the way.
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https://jakelazaroff.com/words/tools-and-services-i-use-to-run-my-sass/
Tools and Services I Use to Run My SaaS | jakelazaroff.com
A stack teardown of SongRender.
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Tailwind is a Leaky Abstraction | jakelazaroff.com
Although Tailwind does have some benefits, ultimately it’s just one more thing to learn.
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https://jakelazaroff.com/words/in-defense-of-cargo-culting/
In Defense of Cargo Culting | jakelazaroff.com
Cargo culting is a pejorative term that means someone is using a technology or following a pattern without understanding why. The discussion tends to...
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Blue/Green Deploys and Immutable Infrastructure with Terraform | jakelazaroff.com
The original deploy strategy for SongRender involved using Ansible to provision and build the application servers. I was unhappy with that process for a few...
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30 Years, 30 Songs | jakelazaroff.com
Ever since I read Bob Nystrom’s 40 Songs, I knew I wanted to write a list of my own. I’ve been procrastinating on it for a while, but “30 years” slips...
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DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com
DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is way outside of what most people would consider moral or...
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https://jakelazaroff.com/words/web-components-eliminate-javascript-framework-lock-in/
Web Components Eliminate JavaScript Framework Lock-in | jakelazaroff.com
Web components can dramatically loosen the coupling of JavaScript frameworks. To prove it, we're going to do something kinda crazy: build an app where every...
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What Counts as Politics in the Workplace? | jakelazaroff.com
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Starting at Recurse Center | jakelazaroff.com
Breaking character for a life update: I'm doing a batch at the Recurse Center!
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https://jakelazaroff.com/words/building-a-single-page-app-with-htmx/
Building a Single-Page App with htmx | jakelazaroff.com
People talk about htmx as though it's saving the web from single-page apps. Well, I guess I missed the memo, because I used htmx to build a single-page app.
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https://jakelazaroff.com/words/integrating-my-blog-with-mastodon/
Integrating My Blog with Mastodon | jakelazaroff.com
Turns out it’s pretty easy to set up an integration between your blog and the Fediverse!
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https://jakelazaroff.com/words/the-web-component-success-story/
The Web Component Success Story | jakelazaroff.com
Web components won't take web development by storm, or show us the One True Way to build websites. What they will do is let us collectively build a rich...
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https://jakelazaroff.com/words/what-is-censorship-really/
What Is Censorship, Really? | jakelazaroff.com
Last week I posted about Section 230 and tech censorship. A couple days later, Glenn Greenwald was censored by his editors at The Intercept. What timing!
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https://jakelazaroff.com/words/my-modern-css-reset/
My Modern CSS Reset | jakelazaroff.com
A CSS reset I've been using for new projects.
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https://jakelazaroff.com/words/the-website-vs-web-app-dichotomy-doesnt-exist/
The Website vs. Web App Dichotomy Doesn't Exist | jakelazaroff.com
A one-dimensional spectrum can't sufficiently capture the tradeoffs involved in web development.
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https://jakelazaroff.com/words/no-more-politics-in-the-workplace/
No More Politics in the Workplace | jakelazaroff.com
Criticism of the Expensify email is conveniently selective.
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https://jakelazaroff.com/words/an-extremely-simple-react-starter-kit/
An Extremely Simple React Starter Kit | jakelazaroff.com
If you’re worried about complexity in the JavaScript ecosystem, you might be sleeping on one of my favorite web development tools: esbuild!
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No One Ever Got Fired for Choosing React | jakelazaroff.com
If you spend a lot of time on Hacker News, it’s easy to get taken by the allure of building a project without a framework.
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https://jakelazaroff.com/words/giving-up-google/
Giving Up Google | jakelazaroff.com
All the Google services I used to use, how easy it is to avoid them and what I use instead.
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https://jakelazaroff.com/words/thats-a-radish/
That’s a Radish! | jakelazaroff.com
I built a static site generator! It’s called Radish.
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https://jakelazaroff.com/words/songrender-turns-one/
SongRender Turns One | jakelazaroff.com
It’s pretty awesome to be able to say this: SongRender, the music visualizer video app I work on, launched one year ago today!
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https://jakelazaroff.com/words/were-react-hooks-a-mistake/
Were React Hooks a Mistake? | jakelazaroff.com
People like signals because signal-based components are far more similar to class components than to function components with hooks.
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https://jakelazaroff.com/words/a-react-developers-first-take-on-solid/
A React Developer’s First Take on Solid | jakelazaroff.com
Although not quite there yet in terms of community, Solid and Solid Start are looking real promising.
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https://jakelazaroff.com/words/building-a-live-coding-audio-playground/
Building a Live Coding Audio Playground | jakelazaroff.com
Two weeks at Recurse went by fast! I started out trying to build an Audio Units extension and — in a classic yak shave — ended up building a live coding...
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Full Stack Ethics | jakelazaroff.com
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Drinking from the Bluesky Firehose | jakelazaroff.com
I recently built a Bluesky bot. To build it, I had to dig into the Bluesky firehose. Here's what I learned.
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https://jakelazaroff.com/words/isomorphic-web-components/
Isomorphic Web Components | jakelazaroff.com
The lack of server-side rendering in web components has become a sort of folk belief that oft goes unquestioned. I am happy to report that the fears are...
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https://jakelazaroff.com/words/building-a-collaborative-pixel-art-editor-with-crdts/
Building a Collaborative Pixel Art Editor with CRDTs | jakelazaroff.com
CRDTs sound cool, but how are they actually used? Let's learn by building a collaborative pixel art editor.
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https://jakelazaroff.com/words/an-interactive-intro-to-crdts/
An Interactive Intro to CRDTs | jakelazaroff.com
CRDTs don't have to be all academic papers and math jargon. Learn what CRDTs are and how they work through interactive visualizations and code samples.
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Just a programmer trying to make a home for myself on the WWW.
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Pathetic | jakelazaroff.com
The toxicity in the web development community needs to stop.
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Frameworks Cover Up Skill Issues, And That's a Good Thing | jakelazaroff.com
The world is poorer when friable foundations lead to crumbling creations. But it is poorer still when we are so concerned with the foundations that we never...
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