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Ben Croker @bencroker.com · 3d

Blinksy just learned to redraw itself on Checkboxes when things get out of sync.

It has achieved sentience.

I am now obsolete.

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Ben Croker @bencroker.com · 4d

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

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Ben Croker @bencroker.com · 17d

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...

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

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Ben Croker @bencroker.com · 18d

This feels like the right move and the right way to make it happen. Great decision!!

Craft CMS @craftcms.com · 19d

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

Craft’s Going Laravel | Craft CMS

We’re switching to the Laravel PHP framework for Craft 6!

craftcms.com

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Ben Croker @bencroker.com · Sep 17

Sounds like a great use of AI, nicely done!

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Ben Croker @bencroker.com · Sep 10

I can’t imagine how much work it was to make those interactive demos. The one in my video is just a couple of `data-*` attributes using Datastar (data-star.dev). If you’re curious, I’d be happy to show you the code for it.

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Ben Croker @bencroker.com · Sep 10

Shout out to @joshwcomeau.com for his wonderful article on SVGs, which everyone should read!
www.joshwcomeau.com/svg/friendly...

A Friendly Introduction to SVG • Josh W. Comeau

SVGs are one of the most remarkable technologies we have access to on the web. They’re first-class citizens, fully addressable with CSS and JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll cover all of the most imp...

www.joshwcomeau.com

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Ben Croker @bencroker.com · Sep 10

And here’s the talk summary.
craftcms.com/events/dot-a...

Real-Time Collaboration with Sprig and Datastar | Dot All… | Craft CMS

Great digital experiences are built on interactivity and collaboration. In this talk, Ben will demonstrate how Sprig and Datastar can transform Craft…

craftcms.com

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Ben Croker @bencroker.com · Sep 10

Having a blast making some final demos for my upcoming #CraftCMS talk at Dot All Lisbon 🇵🇹, using Datastar.

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Ben Croker @bencroker.com · Aug 28

I should add, this was created by someone very cool who prefers to stay anonymous (you know who you are!). I just added the finishing touches.

Ben Croker @bencroker.com · Aug 28

The talk description…
craftcms.com/events/dot-a...

craftcms.com

Ben Croker @bencroker.com · Aug 28

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.

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Ben Croker @bencroker.com · Aug 28

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

Datastar & Craft CMS Demos

Demos and source code for common patterns such as live search, pagination, load more, and filters.

craftcms.data-star.dev

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Ben Croker @bencroker.com · Aug 20

Ran the test again with gzip enabled for event streams and I’m getting a compression ratio of 30:1. Pretty sweet for a one-line config change.

Ben Croker @bencroker.com · Aug 19

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.

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Ben Croker @bencroker.com · Aug 16

Inspector... Rocket... Stellar... Laravel... you’d think we were building a spaceship instead of a frontend framework!
youtu.be/AH1-1BIR2wk

Datastar Tooling

YouTube video by Datastar

youtu.be

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Ben Croker @bencroker.com · Jul 31

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...

Measurements of the time to swap large numbers of DOM elements.

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Ben Croker @bencroker.com · Jul 21

Great conversation with @data-star.dev on launching Datastar V1 🚀
youtu.be/u0I7f6NMZvk

Datastar V1: Everything you need to know about the full-stack framework of the future

YouTube video by hypermedia-tv

youtu.be

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Ben Croker @bencroker.com · Jul 16

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

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Ben Croker @bencroker.com · Jul 15

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 - 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

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Ben Croker @bencroker.com · Jul 15

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...

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

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Ben Croker @bencroker.com · Jul 10

Louis Sunchine is livestreaming a Datastar V1 release party 🎉
Come hang out!!
www.twitch.tv/arum_titan

arum_titan - Twitch

Chill pre-live then V1 RELEASE!

www.twitch.tv

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Ben Croker @bencroker.com · Jul 10

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

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Ben Croker @bencroker.com · Jul 7

Sorry for your loss!

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Ben Croker @bencroker.com · Jun 25

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

Everything is fine

YouTube video by Datastar

youtu.be

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