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Ben Croker

@bencroker.com

Founder of https://putyourlightson.com and core maintainer of https://data-star.dev

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Brandon Kelly@brandonkelly.io · 2mo ago

¡AI, caramba!

¡AI, caramba!

I generally despise AI. Even ignoring the ethical and existential concerns, if I could trade every second I’ve had to spend reading/conversing about AI for time spent actually working , I’d probably be more productive. And happier. But I was recently forced to partake, as we had a security vulnerability report (AI-discovered, I’m quite sure) that was way over my head, and I needed to tap into the Pluribus for some help. The end result was craftcms/url-validator , a new package that helps protect against SSRF vulnerabilities for applications that support uploading files via user-provided URLs. Just the sort of thing I always pictured myself worrying about when I grew up. That experience opened my eyes to the potential, a bit, I guess. I love to code, but if I’m being honest, there are definitely aspects of it that I don’t love. Such as: Resolving merge conflicts Line-by-line code reviews with all potential breaking change/security side effects in mind Debugging complex bugs, especially when third party plugin/project-specific code is involved, which I have zero incentive to commit to memory Debugging npm issues Writing tests I’ve started leaning on it more for those sorts of things. And I have to admit, it’s pretty nice to not spent so many brain cycles on shit work. So I guess I’m kind of coming around. Slowly. Contentiously. I’m still mad about every app that tries to cram it down my throat at every opportunity. And fuck everyone using it for content creation. That’s a human’s job.

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Ben Croker@bencroker.com · 4mo ago

Less than a week to go until I speak to a room full of @viennajs.bsky.social developers about building realtime multiplayer applications. I hear it’s a big room in the @sentry.io offices in Vienna... should be a good time!! www.meetup.com/viennajs/eve...

ViennaJS June Meetup, Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Bring your JS interest and a good vibe! Everybody is welcome & feel free to share this invitation! **Talks and info:** All details: [https://viennajs.org/en/meetup/vienna-j

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Ben Croker@bencroker.com · last yr.

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.

Ben Croker@bencroker.com · last yr.

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.