Ben Croker
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Ben Croker
@bencroker.com
Craft CMS plugin developer, builder of shiny tools;
modern day drifter, adventurous fool.
Blinksy just learned to redraw itself on Checkboxes when things get out of sync.

It has achieved sentience.

I am now obsolete.
October 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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
October 14, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Having a blast making some final demos for my upcoming #CraftCMS talk at Dot All Lisbon 🇵🇹, using Datastar.
September 10, 2025 at 10:24 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.
August 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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
All Datastar SDKs will soon ship with a “Hello, world!” example that demonstrates fragments being streamed to the browser in a single response–all in just a few lines of code.

Here you can see the DOM updates on the left, and the SSE events being streamed on the right.
January 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM