Ben Croker
@bencroker.com
Craft CMS plugin developer, builder of shiny tools;
modern day drifter, adventurous fool.
modern day drifter, adventurous fool.
Just published an edited version of last week’s Datastar online meetup with timestamped chapters, for anyone who missed it or wants to watch a particular part again. Thanks again to our guests and to everyone who joined the stream!!
youtu.be/xN30XVJpwLU
youtu.be/xN30XVJpwLU
Datastar Online Meetup Q1 2026 (edited version)
YouTube video by Datastar
youtu.be
February 2, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Just published an edited version of last week’s Datastar online meetup with timestamped chapters, for anyone who missed it or wants to watch a particular part again. Thanks again to our guests and to everyone who joined the stream!!
youtu.be/xN30XVJpwLU
youtu.be/xN30XVJpwLU
We’ll be going live in an hour and have some fantastic demos coming. You might even see yourself in one of them!!
youtube.com/live/lc48MUn...
youtube.com/live/lc48MUn...
January 29, 2026 at 4:07 PM
We’ll be going live in an hour and have some fantastic demos coming. You might even see yourself in one of them!!
youtube.com/live/lc48MUn...
youtube.com/live/lc48MUn...
Reposted by Ben Croker
Craft 5.9 is here, bringing new ways to organize your content, and a slew of improvements to authoring, accessibility, development, performance, and security. #CraftCMS craftcms.com/blog/craft-5...
Craft 5.9 Released | Craft CMS
Craft 5.9 brings new ways to organize your content, and a slew of improvements to authoring, accessibility, development, performance, and security.
craftcms.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Craft 5.9 is here, bringing new ways to organize your content, and a slew of improvements to authoring, accessibility, development, performance, and security. #CraftCMS craftcms.com/blog/craft-5...
Join us live on YouTube for the first Datastar Online Meetup this coming Thursday, and hear about http-nu from @ndyg.ca, Stario from Adam Bobowski, Rocket from @zangster.bsky.social , and Stellar CSS from @data-star.dev.
Mark your calendars and see you there!
www.youtube.com/live/lc48MUn...
Mark your calendars and see you there!
www.youtube.com/live/lc48MUn...
Datastar Online Meetup
YouTube video by Datastar
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January 26, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Join us live on YouTube for the first Datastar Online Meetup this coming Thursday, and hear about http-nu from @ndyg.ca, Stario from Adam Bobowski, Rocket from @zangster.bsky.social , and Stellar CSS from @data-star.dev.
Mark your calendars and see you there!
www.youtube.com/live/lc48MUn...
Mark your calendars and see you there!
www.youtube.com/live/lc48MUn...
We had @andersmurphy.bsky.social back on the pod to discuss his One Billion Checkboxes and other demos.
youtu.be/DFYuHGKMit8
youtu.be/DFYuHGKMit8
Billionaire Anders Murphy
YouTube video by Datastar
youtu.be
October 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
We had @andersmurphy.bsky.social back on the pod to discuss his One Billion Checkboxes and other demos.
youtu.be/DFYuHGKMit8
youtu.be/DFYuHGKMit8
Going back to fundamentals and building a completely custom merch store using Datastar and Go has been extremely gratifying.
Here’s the end result.
data-star.dev/shop
Here’s the end result.
data-star.dev/shop
Shop
Official not-a-cult shop.
data-star.dev
October 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Going back to fundamentals and building a completely custom merch store using Datastar and Go has been extremely gratifying.
Here’s the end result.
data-star.dev/shop
Here’s the end result.
data-star.dev/shop
Blinksy just learned to redraw itself on Checkboxes when things get out of sync.
It has achieved sentience.
I am now obsolete.
It has achieved sentience.
I am now obsolete.
October 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Blinksy just learned to redraw itself on Checkboxes when things get out of sync.
It has achieved sentience.
I am now obsolete.
It has achieved sentience.
I am now obsolete.
Datastar demos have started cross-pollinating. Soon they’ll form a hive mind and ship the next release themselves.
Blinksy: play.putyourlightson.com/blinksy
Checkboxes: checkboxes.andersmurphy.com?x=1312&y=1310
Blinksy: play.putyourlightson.com/blinksy
Checkboxes: checkboxes.andersmurphy.com?x=1312&y=1310
October 14, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Datastar demos have started cross-pollinating. Soon they’ll form a hive mind and ship the next release themselves.
Blinksy: play.putyourlightson.com/blinksy
Checkboxes: checkboxes.andersmurphy.com?x=1312&y=1310
Blinksy: play.putyourlightson.com/blinksy
Checkboxes: checkboxes.andersmurphy.com?x=1312&y=1310
Dot All 2025 was a wonderful event (big thanks to @leahstephenson.bsky.social and the entire @craftcms.com crew)!!
In case you missed it, here’s my recap.
putyourlightson.com/articles/dot...
In case you missed it, here’s my recap.
putyourlightson.com/articles/dot...
Dot All 2025 Recap
Dot All 2025 was as invigorating and lively as the city it was held in: Lisbon. I gave a talk entitled “Real-time Collaboration” in which I introduced…
putyourlightson.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Dot All 2025 was a wonderful event (big thanks to @leahstephenson.bsky.social and the entire @craftcms.com crew)!!
In case you missed it, here’s my recap.
putyourlightson.com/articles/dot...
In case you missed it, here’s my recap.
putyourlightson.com/articles/dot...
This feels like the right move and the right way to make it happen. Great decision!!
We announced our plans for Craft 6 at last week’s Dot All conference in Lisbon.
The big news: we’re switching to Laravel!
craftcms.com/blog/laravel #CraftCMS
The big news: we’re switching to Laravel!
craftcms.com/blog/laravel #CraftCMS
Craft’s Going Laravel | Craft CMS
We’re switching to the Laravel PHP framework for Craft 6!
craftcms.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
This feels like the right move and the right way to make it happen. Great decision!!
My upcoming #CraftCMS Dot All conference talk will feature real-time demos with audience participation. This is me load testing 100 virtual users, each clicking on a random cell to toggle it on/off every 1 second. The CPU purrs along at 100% and memory remains well within capacity.
August 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
My upcoming #CraftCMS Dot All conference talk will feature real-time demos with audience participation. This is me load testing 100 virtual users, each clicking on a random cell to toggle it on/off every 1 second. The CPU purrs along at 100% and memory remains well within capacity.
Just published a Datastar & #CraftCMS Demo site with source code for common patterns such as live search, pagination, load more, and filters.
craftcms.data-star.dev
craftcms.data-star.dev
Datastar & Craft CMS Demos
Demos and source code for common patterns such as live search, pagination, load more, and filters.
craftcms.data-star.dev
August 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Just published a Datastar & #CraftCMS Demo site with source code for common patterns such as live search, pagination, load more, and filters.
craftcms.data-star.dev
craftcms.data-star.dev
Load testing a VPS ahead of my upcoming #CraftCMS conference talk, in which I’ll be inviting audience participation. This tests up to 100 users hitting the server every second for 30s. Datastar has no problem receiving almost 90MB in over 1k events, and the server purrs along at 100% CPU.
August 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Load testing a VPS ahead of my upcoming #CraftCMS conference talk, in which I’ll be inviting audience participation. This tests up to 100 users hitting the server every second for 30s. Datastar has no problem receiving almost 90MB in over 1k events, and the server purrs along at 100% CPU.
Inspector... Rocket... Stellar... Laravel... you’d think we were building a spaceship instead of a frontend framework!
youtu.be/AH1-1BIR2wk
youtu.be/AH1-1BIR2wk
Datastar Tooling
YouTube video by Datastar
youtu.be
August 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Inspector... Rocket... Stellar... Laravel... you’d think we were building a spaceship instead of a frontend framework!
youtu.be/AH1-1BIR2wk
youtu.be/AH1-1BIR2wk
I love simple, transparent benchmarks, and this one doesn’t disappoint: measuring the time to swap large numbers of DOM elements.
The repo can be forked and tests varied thanks to excellent work by Zach Williams 🚀
github.com/zachwill/ben...
The repo can be forked and tests varied thanks to excellent work by Zach Williams 🚀
github.com/zachwill/ben...
July 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I love simple, transparent benchmarks, and this one doesn’t disappoint: measuring the time to swap large numbers of DOM elements.
The repo can be forked and tests varied thanks to excellent work by Zach Williams 🚀
github.com/zachwill/ben...
The repo can be forked and tests varied thanks to excellent work by Zach Williams 🚀
github.com/zachwill/ben...
A big shout out to @arcustech.com for supporting the cause by sponsoring Datastar with a 2 GB, 2 core, self-hosted VPS, which has been performing exceptionally well with all the traffic recently received 🚀
Home Page - Arcustech
ArcusTech.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
A big shout out to @arcustech.com for supporting the cause by sponsoring Datastar with a 2 GB, 2 core, self-hosted VPS, which has been performing exceptionally well with all the traffic recently received 🚀
The Datastar package for @laravel.com has been updated with all the goodies that shipped in Datastar v1.0.0-RC.1. Read the release notes (some breaking changes included) and check out the new docs 🚀
github.com/putyourlight...
github.com/putyourlight...
GitHub - putyourlightson/laravel-datastar: A reactive hypermedia framework for Laravel.
A reactive hypermedia framework for Laravel. Contribute to putyourlightson/laravel-datastar development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
July 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The Datastar package for @laravel.com has been updated with all the goodies that shipped in Datastar v1.0.0-RC.1. Read the release notes (some breaking changes included) and check out the new docs 🚀
github.com/putyourlight...
github.com/putyourlight...
The Datastar plugin for @craftcms.com has been updated for all the goodies that shipped in Datastar v1.0.0-RC.1. Read the release notes (some breaking changes included) and check out the new docs 🚀
putyourlightson.com/plugins/data...
putyourlightson.com/plugins/data...
Datastar – A template-driven, reactive hypermedia framework for Craft.
This plugin integrates the Datastar framework with Craft CMS, allowing you to create reactive frontends driven by Twig templates. It aims to replace the…
putyourlightson.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The Datastar plugin for @craftcms.com has been updated for all the goodies that shipped in Datastar v1.0.0-RC.1. Read the release notes (some breaking changes included) and check out the new docs 🚀
putyourlightson.com/plugins/data...
putyourlightson.com/plugins/data...
Louis Sunchine is livestreaming a Datastar V1 release party 🎉
Come hang out!!
www.twitch.tv/arum_titan
Come hang out!!
www.twitch.tv/arum_titan
arum_titan - Twitch
Chill pre-live then V1 RELEASE!
www.twitch.tv
July 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Louis Sunchine is livestreaming a Datastar V1 release party 🎉
Come hang out!!
www.twitch.tv/arum_titan
Come hang out!!
www.twitch.tv/arum_titan
It finally happened – we launched the new Datastar site and V1 (RC) 🚀
It’s been an incredible journey, and I feel honoured to be working with people like @data-star.dev and Johnny Stevers. And there’s so much more yet to come!!
data-star.dev
It’s been an incredible journey, and I feel honoured to be working with people like @data-star.dev and Johnny Stevers. And there’s so much more yet to come!!
data-star.dev
July 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
It finally happened – we launched the new Datastar site and V1 (RC) 🚀
It’s been an incredible journey, and I feel honoured to be working with people like @data-star.dev and Johnny Stevers. And there’s so much more yet to come!!
data-star.dev
It’s been an incredible journey, and I feel honoured to be working with people like @data-star.dev and Johnny Stevers. And there’s so much more yet to come!!
data-star.dev
In which we discuss internal changes that are making everything better, while pushing to make everything ready for a public release candidate of Datastar...
youtu.be/tNH3Tyc1s1k
youtu.be/tNH3Tyc1s1k
Everything is fine
YouTube video by Datastar
youtu.be
June 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
In which we discuss internal changes that are making everything better, while pushing to make everything ready for a public release candidate of Datastar...
youtu.be/tNH3Tyc1s1k
youtu.be/tNH3Tyc1s1k
We discussed making Datastar videos and building demos with the very French, very upbeat Louis Sunshine 🇫🇷☀️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib0n...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib0n...
Collecting Dragon Balls, with Louis Sunshine
YouTube video by Datastar
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June 2, 2025 at 10:03 AM
We discussed making Datastar videos and building demos with the very French, very upbeat Louis Sunshine 🇫🇷☀️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib0n...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib0n...
Datastar is developed and maintained by a handful of core contributors and backed by Star Federation—a nonprofit organization.
We added the ability to sponsor our work just a few days ago, and WOW is the community showing its support!!
Take a peek 👀
github.com/sponsors/sta...
We added the ability to sponsor our work just a few days ago, and WOW is the community showing its support!!
Take a peek 👀
github.com/sponsors/sta...
Sponsor @starfederation on GitHub Sponsors
Support the development and ongoing maintenance of Datastar and our other open-source work.
github.com
May 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Datastar is developed and maintained by a handful of core contributors and backed by Star Federation—a nonprofit organization.
We added the ability to sponsor our work just a few days ago, and WOW is the community showing its support!!
Take a peek 👀
github.com/sponsors/sta...
We added the ability to sponsor our work just a few days ago, and WOW is the community showing its support!!
Take a peek 👀
github.com/sponsors/sta...