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nyc-based programmer and designer. alum @recursecenter.bsky.social. public transit enjoyer. thoughts on local-first, javascript frameworks, web components, css and other web minutiae. 🌐 https://jakelazaroff.com
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i am as guilty as anyone of posting politics but really i just want to talk about two things: subways, and software i can use while riding them

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

i'd like to invite everyone saying "AI is useless" to consider the abject failure of anti-drug scare campaigns. like, the campaigns were right that many drugs are very bad! but adopting that same hardline rhetoric about drugs that are actually fine in moderation often resulted in increased drug use

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

the local-first data substrate i want: - a desktop app that syncs a folder between devices - that backs up to cloud storage (ideally my own S3-ish bucket) - and lets apps remotely auth to a sandboxed folder or set of files dropbox supported this back in the day. does something like it exist now?

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

this is by far the best critique i've read of agentic coding. dense but well worth your time

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

if establishment dems want to show that police are important, here's a great place to start: have local cops start arresting the masked gang members kidnapping people in broad daylight *from inside our courthouses*

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

this great idea in svelte inspired me to see if something similar could work *without* a compiler. here's what i came up with for @preactjs.com:

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

📝 new blog post! i spent a while looking into homomorphically encrypted CRDTs. spoiler alert: they don’t work super well! (but you should still check it out — i break down what homomorphic encryption is and how it works, and there are lots of explorable explanations along the way!)

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I'm pretty excited about @inkandswitch.com's Keyhive project, and I really wanted to feel solid on the novel key management approach they use called BeeKEM - so I wrote this explainer article about it! Tysm to @expede.wtf for helping me make some sense of you and the team's work ✨

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

OH GOD

submitted 5 days ago • 31 comments