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Jake Lazaroff

Jake Lazaroff

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Building More Resilient Local-First Software with atproto

atproto has the potential to become a rock-solid replacement for the most fragile part of any local-first app: the sync server.

DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought

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 acceptable.

Homomorphically Encrypting CRDTs

Homomorphic encryption allows a computer to run programs on encrypted data. Learn how homomorphic encryption works through interactive examples, build a homomorphically encrypted CRDT and see whether it has promise for local-first software.

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Isomorphic Web Components

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 unfounded.

Drinking from the Bluesky Firehose

I recently built a Bluesky bot. To build it, I had to dig into the Bluesky firehose. Here's what I learned.

What's a Single-Page App?

The web development community talks a lot about single-page apps, but are we all on a single page? Here's my ontology of web app architectures, organized by rendering and navigation.

My Modern CSS Reset

A CSS reset I've been using for new projects.

Building a Single-Page App with htmx

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.

A Local-First Case Study

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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The Web Component Success Story

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 ecosystem of dynamic components that work with any web stack.

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The Website vs. Web App Dichotomy Doesn't Exist

A one-dimensional spectrum can't sufficiently capture the tradeoffs involved in web development.

Web Components Eliminate JavaScript Framework Lock-in

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 single component is written in a different JavaScript framework.

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