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Jake Lazaroff
@jakelazaroff.com
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nyc-based programmer and designer. alum @recursecenter.bsky.social. public transit enjoyer. thoughts on local-first software, javascript frameworks, web components, css and other web minutiae.

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Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com · Nov 9
hi new friends! i’m jake, a programmer & designer based in NYC. i talk a lot about local-first apps & the web.

if you followed me from a starter pack & don’t know who i am, here are some (imo) cool things i’ve done/written. these are all on my website which you can follow via RSS:

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Just a programmer trying to make a home for myself on the WWW.
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justinfagnani.com
Yesterday at TPAC I publicized my draft proposal for adding a declarative templating API to the DOM.

github.com/justinfagnan...

The repo has:

📖 Explainers for the templating API and DOM scheduler API
🏗️ Full prototype implementations
⚗️ a JSX transform
⚛️ a mini React-like framework
github.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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threw together a lil web component to add this to any input. super easy progressive UX enhancement for your atproto app!

tangled.org/@jakelazarof...
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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jamespearce.bsky.social
Unable to attend this week's awesome-looking @syncconf.bsky.social, I've decided instead to offer a tribute in the only form I know how: a new open source project. 👐

I believe sync is a fundamental part of modern app development. Hopefully I can help make it easier.

Please follow along!
November 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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i find most same-genre and adjacent-genre covers boring but the djenty guitar work here is really fun!
That's What You Get
YouTube video by Cartographer - Topic
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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chrisshank.com
Most people see the web as a glorified document viewer, I look it as a malleable computing substrate that has yet to be fully actualized.
chrisshank.com 𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 1d
Draft of the editorial of the Mar/Apr 1997 issue of Web Apps Magazine

www.w3.org/People/Conno...
"HTTP was design as a distributed realization of the Objective C (originally Smalltalk) message passing infrastructure: the first few bytes of every HTTP message are a method name: GET or POST. Uniform Resource Locator is just the result of squeezing the term object reference through the IETF standardization process."
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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brianvan.bsky.social
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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ruth fertel in 1965:
RIP to everyone killed by Chris's Steakhouse for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than Chris's Steakhouse
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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scopicengineer.com
The New York Times opinion page isn't holding anything back now smh.
Parody of New York Times opinion page headline: OPINION INTERESTING TIMES Did Semantic HTML Ruin Accessibility? And if so, could <div> and <span> fix it? Nov. 6, 2025
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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@bsky.app mentioned on abbott elementary!
jacob: "are either of you two signed into twitter on your computers?" gregory: "mnh-mnh" janine: "no." jacob: "ah, that was a trick question" jacob: "as we should all be on bluesky"
November 7, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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ROT IN HELL CUOMO
nbcnews.com NBC News @nbcnews.com · 6d
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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hellgatenyc.com
The stream has begun. Join us: www.youtube.com/live/fKA4Vpk...
November 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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piccalil.li
This is a fantastic piece of writing with some really good, interactive examples to help the knowledge stick.

nik.digital/posts/tab-ro...
Tab Roving • Niklas Gadermann
Handling focus management for element groups
nik.digital
November 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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jim-nielsen.com
📝 Rather than shouldering the cost to design, build, optimize, and maintain your own implementation of a thing, consider leveraging the browser’s implementation of a thing which is free and (likely) optimized beyond anything you can do yourself.

blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/browser...
Browser APIs: The Web’s Free SaaS
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
blog.jim-nielsen.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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all the centrist libs who support cuomo have some introspection to do 😬
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8d
Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!

I know how hard you worked for this.
Red Trump-style graphic with images of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo. At the top it says, "I'm going to pick [Cuomo]." - Donald Trump, 60 Minutes Interview, 11-2-25 Then beneath it TRUMP ENDORSES CUOMO
November 3, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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frontenddogma.com
Start Implementing View Transitions on Your Websites Today, by @cydstumpel.nl (@piccalil.li):

https://piccalil.li/blog/start-implementing-view-transitions-on-your-websites-today/

#css #viewtransitions #javascript #apis
Start implementing view transitions on your websites today
Browser support for view transitions is rocketing and there's not many better out there to help you understand how to implement them than Cyd Stumpel.
piccalil.li
October 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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the "no nazi tattoos is a purity test!!" graham platner defenders are obviously whining in bad faith, and you can tell because there are other candidates in the race they've already chosen not to support.

oh, so janet mills is too moderate?
sounds like a purity test to me!!!
October 30, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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in retrospect, "server" was a bad name. we turned out to be the ones serving them.
thomasfuchs.at Thomas @thomasfuchs.at · 12d
We have the most powerful personal computers ever at home and in our pockets yet we use them mostly as gloried terminals to Big Tech mainframes
October 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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jamie.build
This little snippet made debugging view transitions a lot easier
::view-transition-group(*) { animation-duration: 3000ms; } ::view-transition-group(*) { outline: 1px solid blue } ::view-transition-image-pair(*) { outline: 1px solid yellow } ::view-transition-old(*) { outline: 1px solid red } ::view-transition-new(*) { outline: 1px solid green }
October 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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this is so dope! people come up with such amazing ideas when they treat small scales as a creative constraint, rather than a temporary step on the way to massive, industry-defining reach
chrisshank.com 𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 13d
Server Charms are tiny, portable microcontroller setups made with recycled vape batteries. They create their own Wi-Fi network, inviting curious people to connect with their devices where a captive portal opens, leading to small webpages.

codeberg.org/actinomy/ser...
"To serve is to offer something, a name, a website, a document, an idea –something to be shared, something that connects us. But who serves whom? Serving can be a painful experience. It is a relation that carries histories of gendered violence, histories of slavery, serfdom and oppression as we are taught by archives of resistance, black feminists and anti-colonial scholars. This violence extends to the materialities of the earth which is made to serve as resource, ready to be extracted for the minerals that make up the very chip that carries these thoughts as binary strings of information. Serving does not have to manifest as violence if we insist otherwise. Serving can become an act of empowerment when we build infrastructures that serve the needs of local and remote communities evolving around situated knowledge of those around us – while keeping in mind privilege often determines who has access to a community and its resources. The complexities of the internet with its corporate and state entanglements, its huge data centers, relentless data crawlers and transatlantic fibre cables can feel inevitable. To delink from time to time means to shift our focus back to the local networks and groups that we are already part of. We know that the internet is much more than its corporate occupants, it is about forming connections and sharing resources. Independent, selfmade networks remind us of the physical connections that are the base of all kinds of signal transmissions. Intimate networks that make us share and mitigate our vulnerabilities through trust and kinship. In the smallest scope, networks such as this ones."
October 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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samwho.dev
If you're also considering self-hosting things on your own VPS, I've just published my first ever post on the @ngrok.com blog talking about just that!

ngrok.com/blog/self-ho...

In writing this I learned that my boss, @joelhans.com, loves desert tortoises and has one as a pet. I leaned into this.
October 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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this is super interesting
malstrom.me Mark Malstrom @malstrom.me · 16d
Crank is a framework I want to use very soon. Utilizing (async) generators as a first-class component primitive is brilliant.
Crank.js
The Just JavaScript framework. Crank is a JavaScript / TypeScript library where you write components with functions, promises and generators.
crank.js.org
October 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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counterparts joined my 1000 scrobble club
32. Just Surrender — 1,028 33. The Callous Daoboys — 1,022 34. Counterparts — 1,000 35. The Dangerous Summer — 941 36. Underoath — 926
October 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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brb removing prettier from all my astro and svelte projects
biomejs.dev biomejs.dev @biomejs.dev · 17d
Biome v2.3 is out!

👨‍👨‍👦‍👦 Full support for @vuejs.org, @svelte.dev and @astro.build
‼️ New ignore syntax
🌬️ Tailwind v4 support
⌨️ New CLI flags and reporters

biomejs.dev/blog/biome-v...
October 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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dannymoerkerke.bsky.social
What do we need to do to make web apps a success?

Here's my vision:

medium.com/@dannymoerke...
What We Need To Make Web Apps A Success
We don’t need to wait for Apple to jump on board
medium.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM