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jakelazaroff.com

jakelazaroff.com

Just a programmer trying to make a home for myself on the WWW.

Frontend / CSS / browsersJavaScript / TypeScriptDistributed systems / cloud

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40 from 14 Feb 2020 to 31 Mar 2026
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now and then (1 in the last year)
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2026 1

  1. Building More Resilient Local-First Software with atproto

2025 2

  1. DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought
  2. Homomorphically Encrypting CRDTs

2024 8

  1. Isomorphic Web Components
  2. Drinking from the Bluesky Firehose
  3. What's a Single-Page App?
  4. My Modern CSS Reset
  5. Building a Single-Page App with htmx
  6. A Local-First Case Study
  7. The Web Component Success Story
  8. The Website vs. Web App Dichotomy Doesn't Exist

2023 12

  1. Web Components Eliminate JavaScript Framework Lock-in
  2. Frameworks Cover Up Skill Issues, And That's a Good Thing
  3. Web Components Will Outlive Your JavaScript Framework
  4. Making CRDTs 98% More Efficient
  5. Building a Collaborative Pixel Art Editor with CRDTs
  6. An Interactive Intro to CRDTs
  7. Building a Live Coding Audio Playground
  8. Starting at Recurse Center
  9. An Extremely Simple React Starter Kit
  10. Were React Hooks a Mistake?
  11. Pathetic
  12. In Defense of Cargo Culting

2022 4

  1. Integrating My Blog with Mastodon
  2. A React Developer’s First Take on Solid
  3. Tailwind is a Leaky Abstraction
  4. That’s a Radish!

2021 3

  1. Preserving the Web
  2. What Counts as Politics in the Workplace?
  3. 30 Years, 30 Songs

2020 10

  1. Things That Didn’t Kill My App
  2. No One Ever Got Fired for Choosing React
  3. Tools and Services I Use to Run My SaaS
  4. What Is Censorship, Really?
  5. Taming the Tech Giants
  6. No More Politics in the Workplace
  7. Giving Up Google
  8. Blue/Green Deploys and Immutable Infrastructure with Terraform
  9. SongRender Turns One
  10. Full Stack Ethics