Ben Croker

@ben_pylo

Craft CMS plugin developer, builder of shiny tools; modern day drifter, adventurous fool.

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Joined October 2011

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Ben Croker@ben_pylo · Jul 10

Damn @DelaneyGillilan and @ben_pylo absolutely cooking on the datastar V1 release ✅ Hypermedia controls (htmx, unpoly, hotwire) ✅ Front end reactivity signals (alpine, hyperscript) ✅ real-time SSE first party support ✅ text/html support (for elderly folks not ready for full…

DDatastar CEO@DelaneyGillilan · Jul 10

We are LIVE!!!! Go check out the NEW SITE, NEW GUIDE, NEW DOCS!! And then, when you’ve recovered from the awesomeness, go read the “V1 and Beyond” essay (much 🔥🌶️). Thank you to everyone who has contributed. It’s been an incredible journey getting here; now time to be boring!

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Datastar CEO@DelaneyGillilan · Jul 22

We made a #gratitude channel on our Discord. Open source is hard but hearing from people sure helps!

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Ben Croker@ben_pylo · Jul 21

Great conversation between @all__hype and @DelaneyGillilan on launching Datastar V1 🚀 youtu.be/u0I7f6NMZvk

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Ben Croker@ben_pylo · 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 🚀

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Ben Croker@ben_pylo · Jul 15

The Datastar package for @laravelphp 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/putyourlightso…

ben_pylo's tweet card. A reactive hypermedia framework for Laravel. Contribute to putyourlightson/laravel-datastar development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Ben Croker@ben_pylo · 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/datast…

ben_pylo's tweet card. This plugin integrates the Datastar framework with Craft CMS, allowing you to create reactive frontends driven by Twig templates. It aims to replace the…

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Datastar CEO@DelaneyGillilan · Jul 11

Launch day on the podcast! Yes we have a podcast... youtube.com/watch?v=eMIB4B…

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Ben Croker@ben_pylo · Jul 10

congrats to the data star team on getting to 1.0!

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Ben Croker@ben_pylo · Jul 10

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

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Ben Croker@ben_pylo · 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 @DelaneyGillilan and Johnny Stevers. And there’s so much more yet to come!! data-star.dev

ben_pylo's tweet image. 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 @DelaneyGillilan and Johnny Stevers. And there’s so much more yet to come!!
data-star.dev

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Ben Croker@ben_pylo · 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

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Ben Croker@ben_pylo · Jun 2

We discussed making Datastar videos and building demos with the very French, very upbeat Louis Sunshine @merelyacat 🇫🇷☀️ youtube.com/watch?v=Ib0nVT…

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Datastar CEO@DelaneyGillilan · May 22

Highlights from @kotlinconf "We want to see more websites using Datastar". Thanks @http4k !

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Ben Croker@ben_pylo · May 20

Datastar is developed and maintained by a handful of core contributors and backed by Star Federation—a nonprofit organization. We added the ability to sponsor our work just a few days ago, and WOW is the community showing its support!! Take a peek 👀 github.com/sponsors/starf…

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Datastar CEO@DelaneyGillilan · May 20

Hurray! Datastar is at 2000 stars. Pretty great for a shit framework no one wants to use, including me! Please don't show it to your React friends! It's just for collaboration & real-time, definitely can't do CRUD. Please don't let it get more popular, I have a real job.

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Ben Croker@ben_pylo · May 12

To become a billionaire: Step 1: Become a millionaire. Step 2: Do that 999 more times. Easy. #datastar

AAnders Murphy@anders_murphy · May 12

One Billion Checkboxes ✅ Change log: - 100000% more checkboxes - Cross platform universal check boxes (look good on any device) - Client side feedback animation (no optimistic updates) - Tab state - SQLITE storage (If your checkbox is checked it's been persisted to disk)

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Ben Croker@ben_pylo · May 1

The Blitz Hints utility, first introduced three years ago, has been retired in version 5.10.0. #CraftCMS putyourlightson.com/articles/one-l…

ben_pylo's tweet card. The Blitz Hints utility, first introduced three years ago, has been retired in 5.10.0.

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Ben Croker@ben_pylo · Apr 23

These demos are insane!! I would absolutely love to see @DelaneyGillilan show what hypermedia is truly capable of at @BigSkyDevCon 2025 🚀

AAnders Murphy@anders_murphy · Apr 22

While y'all (@DelaneyGillilan @RyanCarniato @devagrawal09) been debating the deep conundrums of webdev. I've made a terrible life choice and shipped #datastar + #Clojure one million checkboxes.😅

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Anders Murphy@anders_murphy · Apr 22

While y'all (@DelaneyGillilan @RyanCarniato @devagrawal09) been debating the deep conundrums of webdev. I've made a terrible life choice and shipped #datastar + #Clojure one million checkboxes.😅

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Ben Croker@ben_pylo · Apr 22

In this episode we discussed the Game of Life demo that was featured on Hacker News with Anders Murphy, Clojure, and making the most of Datastar. (Also on the podcast players.) #datastar #hypermedia #clojure youtu.be/xzC3g0qIRro

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