Jake Lazaroff

@jakelazaroff

nyc-based programmer and designer. alum @recurse.com. public transit enjoyer. azzajew. thoughts on local-first software, atproto, javascript frameworks, web components, css and other web minutiae. 🌐

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Jake Lazaroff@jakelazaroff· 21d

looks like the maintainer anticipated that question!

Commit on Sep 12, 2025: "Clarify why this package is still useful"

Jake Lazaroff@jakelazaroff· 25d

oh i wasn't talking about "deportations"

paragraph from DHH's blog post: "Because the sacred cow here is not just that mass migration must stop going forward. It's also that millions who are already in Europe must go. Remigration has gone from a fringe concept to the mainstream discourse in record time on account of that realization. The Overton window is swinging wide open, but the cow is still there."

screenshot from Wikipedia: "Remigration is a far-right concept referring to the ethnic cleansing via mass deportation of non-white minority populations, especially immigrants and sometimes including native-born citizens, to their place of racial ancestry."

Jake Lazaroff@jakelazaroff· 25d

one nice lil upgrade for bluesky's standard.site embed cards would be to look up the relevant site.standard.graph.subscription record when displaying the embed card e.g. the card still prompts me to subscribe to @dholms.at's leaflets even though i already am

"daniel's leaflets" publication with a "subscribed" toggle

Jake Lazaroff@jakelazaroff· 25d

some out-of-context sneak peeks from my local-first conf talk (obviously i have Opinions about each of these)

a slide showing:
1. a phone running bluesky labeled "client" with arrows pointing to and from
2. a group of databases with faces by them labeled "PDSes", with arrows pointing from each to
3. a satellite dish labeled "relay", with an arrow pointing to
4. a black computer tower labeled "appview", with an arrow pointing back to the phone

a slide showing:
1. a phone running bluesky labeled "client" with a double-ended arrow pointing to and from
2. a black computer tower labeled "appview", with a double-ended arrow pointing to a database and a dashed line encircling both of them. arrows point to and from
3. a group of databases with faces by them labeled "PDSes", with arrows pointing from each to
4. a satellite dish labeled "relay", with an arrow pointing back to the AppView

Jake Lazaroff@jakelazaroff· 27d

definitions abound but i like this sort of anti-definition from @martin.kleppmann.com

WHAT ISN'T LOCAL-FIRST

If it's local-only, it's not local-first.
(Local-first implies multiplayer, or at least multi-device among a user's devices)

If it doesn't work with the wifi off, it's not local-first.
(Local-first implies offline support)

If it doesn't work if the app developer goes out of business and shuts down their servers, it's not local-first.

Jake Lazaroff@jakelazaroff· Jun 3

turns out it's significantly less than the level of financial stability required to buy a new toyota camry

screenshot of the website BoatTrader: 1985 Island Packet 31 sailboat for sale for $19,000

screenshot of the toyota website showing a 2026 camry starting msrp is $29,300

Jake Lazaroff@jakelazaroff· Jun 3

sometimes i think about this quora answer on the downsides of being rich www.quora.com/Is-getting-r...

Being rich does come with some downsides, though. The first thing you are thinking reading that, is, "cry me a river". That is one of the downsides. You are not allowed to complain about anything, ever. Since most people imagine being rich as nirvana, you are no longer allowed to have any human needs or frustrations in the public eye. Yet, you are still a human being, but most people don't treat you like one.

Jake Lazaroff@jakelazaroff· Jun 1

meanwhile, napster on june 1st 2026:

Jake Lazaroff@jakelazaroff· May 31

if you only integrated your blog with @standard.site to get the link cards on bluesky, try signing into one of the atmosphere blogging apps here we have… 1. @leaflet.pub automagically discovering my blog and all my posts 2. @pckt.blog letting you subscribe and showing my posts in its in-app feed

jakelazaroff.com blog posts on leaflet.pub

a jakelazaroff.com blog post "building more resilient local-first software with atproto" in the subs feed on pckt.blog

Jake Lazaroff@jakelazaroff· May 28

for one, bluesky just added these special embeds for pages linked to such a record

a screenshot of a post by @j4ck.xyz showing the new standard.site embeds in bluesky. below the link is an icon, a tile "jack's blog", a "by @j4ck.xyz" byline and a big red "view publication" button

Jake Lazaroff@jakelazaroff· May 27

are you sure you don't mean google 2fa

Screenshot from Google AI mode:

is google at 2 pe

No, Alphabet Inc. (Google) is not trading at a 2 P/E ratio; its actual valuation is roughly 15 times higher than that.
As of May 2026, the current trailing Price-to-Earnings (P/E) ratio for Google (GOOG / GOOGL) sits at approximately 29.3x, while its forward P/E ratio is estimated at around 27.2x. A P/E ratio of 2 is practically unheard of for mega-cap technology companies and typically only occurs in companies facing imminent bankruptcy or severe systemic distress.

Screenshot from Google AI mode:

Explaining the "2 P/E" Confusion
If you read or heard that Google was at a "2 P/E," it was likely a misunderstanding or miscommunication of one of the following scenarios:

Two-Step Verification (2SV): In tech contexts, "Google 2FA" or "Google 2SV" refers to Google Two-Step Verification, a security feature rather than a financial metric.

Jake Lazaroff@jakelazaroff· May 27

it all makes sense if you check the source link

google search for "how many ps are in google"

AI overview:

There are 2 "p"s in the word Google. (source: a Reddit thread on r/investing titled "Comparing the P/E of Alphabet(google) and every other ...)

Jake Lazaroff@jakelazaroff· May 27

cleaning out my node_modules like

Jake Lazaroff@jakelazaroff· May 23

bruh

InaneDragon @inanedragon.bsky.social posting

Actually, we thought that *you* were explicitly referring to HAL, Skynet, etc. That's why we reference them as refutations to your argument in the context of "you're just not thinking about it, bruv"

quoting

Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com • 1h
echoing scalzi's quote of me, i see that when i said "pinocchio-esque fantasy" people thought *i* was not referring to HAL, skynet, etc

Jake Lazaroff@jakelazaroff· May 19

Some potential future additions that are under consideration include:

Client side includes. For example, <template for="footer" patchsrc="/partials/footer.html">

charlie brown running to kick a football held by lucy

Jake Lazaroff@jakelazaroff· May 14

currently building a follow-up version designed by an agency so i figured i'd post about this one while it's still live also the 404 page is fun

a 404 page featuring a low-poly laptop showing a windows blue screen of death

Jake Lazaroff@jakelazaroff· May 14

pretty proud of this homepage i threw together for my company. i tried to come up with something very obviously not designed by AI and came up with this low-poly 3D aesthetic inspired by @jhey.dev and @anatudor.bsky.social. 100% CSS, no javascript at all! phaze.app

Jake Lazaroff@jakelazaroff· May 13

yup it's literally the contrapoints meme

natalie wynn while putting on makeup: "they don't want victory, they don't want power, they want to endlessly 'critique' power."

Jake Lazaroff@jakelazaroff· May 13

my mouth actually fell open reading this

highlighted text from the article: 31% of gen Z men agree that "a wife should always obey her husband"

Jake Lazaroff@jakelazaroff· May 12

@tangled.org heads up repo creation failing for me

a screenshot of the @tangled.org repo creation flow with the error message "failed to reach knot server."

Jake Lazaroff@jakelazaroff· May 11

only 71 now

zoomed in picture of bottle of "barbasol 72 in 1" with extensive usage list (shaving cream, shampoo, conditioner, engine oil, green audi R8, pikachu, lotion, etc) with "the queen of england" circled

Jake Lazaroff@jakelazaroff· May 3

two upcoming javascript proposals i'm really excited about: - module declarations will let you define multiple javascript modules inline within a single file (github.com/tc39/proposa...) - module expressions will let you create workers without requiring a separate file (github.com/tc39/proposa...)