Ben Pate
Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarBen Pate is an entrepreneur-engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling SaaS products and founding companies, including Zen Planner and EurekaMetrics. He blends business strategy with hands-on full-stack engineering and has shipped projects that reached hundreds of thousands of users. An active open-source contributor, Ben has improved web tooling and scripting languages—adding features and performance fixes to htmx and contributing array indexing, SSE, and build improvements to a hyperscript project. Based in Colorado, he’s now focused on open, community-oriented infrastructure (see emissary.dev) aimed at reclaiming the original spirit of the web. Notably, he prefers collaboration on meaningful community-building ideas over transactional outreach, signaling a mission-driven approach to technology and product.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (9)
html10
hyperscript10
scripting-language10
javascript10
htmx10
testing10
web-development9
server-sent-events8
sse8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bigskysoftware/htmx
Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
</> htmx - high power tools for HTML
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 92 commits, 46 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily worked on improving the htmx library's functionality by addressing bugs and implementing new features. They fixed connection issues related to `swapInnerHTML`, ensuring proper resource cleanup. The user also implemented functionality to focus on elements with the `autofocus` attribute and updated the scroll event handler using a global lock. Furthermore, the user added new test cases to improve the testing of the library.
htmxjavascripthateoasresthyperscript
bigskysoftware/_hyperscript
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022
a small scripting language for the web
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 82 commits, 34 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the implementation of a scripting language for the web. Their work focused on adding new features, specifically array indexing capabilities, to the hyperscript language. They introduced operators for accessing array elements and refactored the code to improve efficiency. Additionally, the user updated build scripts and added an SSE (Server-Sent Events) feature, demonstrating a focus on language features and overall project architecture.
scripting-languagehtmxhyperscript
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