Ben Delarre

@bendelarre
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Wrangler of web app technology. Maker of things both physical and digital.

Oh, you know it's time to walk away when you have to pull out git reflog to save your whole days work.

Yeah. Happy weekend folks.

I am very excited to announce the alpha release of the #WebComponents Language Server!!!

I just heard folks talking about how putting ads into LLM chats will be the next big thing and help fund the LLM business model.

This truly completes the cycle.

First we made the web. Then we filled it full of ads. Then we made the web slow. Then we fed the web to an LLM. Then we filled the LLM full of ads. Then we made the LLM slow. Then the web can start all over again?

Anyone who makes things, or is even remotely 'handy', has a small box of random screws, bolts, nuts and assorted hardware.

This box is a constant reminder of the shame that comes from not knowing where these things came from or where they should live.

But rejoice! This box is also a bloody gold mine and saves you more times than you would care to admit!

Praise be to the random hardware boxes of the world!

The problem with writing code for music visualization is you end up just sitting there zoning out to the blinky lights and the music.
USB-C is a marvel. That I can run a 100w soldering iron off of a battery bank is impressive and the damn thing heats up faster than my big desktop Weller WESD51!

I love the work that Shayne Stacey is doing at the Sacramento Music Archive, it's like the modern equivalent of Cecil Sharp. But I find it sadly depressing that this archive is being digitized to YouTube.

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13979518/sacramento-music-archive-shayne-stacy-punk-metal-cassettes-vhs-demos-concerts

Numerous videos in the archive have been removed, and over time I don't feel like entrusting musical heritage to such a corporation is the right play.

As technologists we should be making such efforts sustainable without the backing of mega corps. #webdev #music

He Saves Decades of Underground Music and Makes it Free to All

Shayne Stacy's Sacramento Music Archive is a goldmine of previously unseen punk, metal and indie shows in the Bay Area and beyond.

Choose not shipping your entire engineering org to render one fucking button.
Choose fewer dependencies, smaller payloads, and fewer metrics to lie to yourself about.
Choose a future your past self would recognize.
Choose boring, choose resilient, choose the platform.
Choose life.
Choose a build pipeline you can actually explain.
In a dev stack that isn’t fifteen fucking layers deep.
Choose zero-config.
Choose reading the spec on a Sunday morning.
Choose server-side rendering and static site generation.
Choose not reinventing the browser.
Choose life.
Choose a hyperlink.
Choose a browser that does the work for you.
Choose a fast first paint.
Choose a multi-page view transition.
Choose service workers, precaching,
static HTML, and web components.
Choose clean code, low JavaScript,
and modern stylesheets.
Choose organizational performance budgets.
Choose shipping less.
Choose code that ages well.
Choose progressive enhancement and graceful degradation.