Cory LaViska

Truer words have never been spoken.

Interested in setting aside the magical prompter and learning some web standards skills the old fashioned way? You can sign up for my online Web Components course for free until Oct 31 with the code markitzero. If you find it useful, please consider letting folks know! 🎃

CSS Tricks is independent once again! Hope it gets its magic back. It's a great source for web devs.

CSS Tricks is independent once again! Hope it gets its magic back. It's a great source for web devs.

web apps should have more context menus (that also open with longtap)

"The old setup shipped a React runtime, a router, a data-fetching cache and a state library to render mostly static text." Static text doesn't need a runtime. olegchursin.com/notes/swiss-...

I’ve never been as nervous to publish on CSS-Tricks since my first article in 2015. https://geoffgraham.me/nervous-to-publish-on-css-tricks/

"The native-first guidance was deliberate, an attempt to convince AI to reach for the platform before abstracting." Yes, because more abstractions means more complexity, more mess, and more tokens. Great take 👏 castastrophe.blog/blog/on-writ...

What type of wine pairs best with PHP updates?

I know folks get real mad when I say this but in times of widespread security crisis, static sites sure are nice

Incredible! Can't wait to see it.

“Randomness in CSS doesn’t have to mean throwing your design system out the window. It’s about little imperfections and playfulness. Maybe let’s even call it fun.” smashingmagazine.com/2026/10/embr...

Happy to see CKEditor adding support for shadow DOM! www.thedroptimes.com/72872/ckedit...

“When the first car came out, consumers didn’t care about its color, or silhouette, because the competition was a horse. But now that cars have been commoditized, quality and details have become more important than ever.” emilkowal.ski/ui/developin...

There's not TELLing how good this is until you see it for yourself. Built by my good friend @talbs.me who is also a great designer to follow!

Shopify moved checkout off React and onto web components. Bundles shrank 40–85%. www.infoq.com/news/2026/10...

built with @webawesome.com codepen.io/claviska/pen...

sad to see pico.css no longer maintained picocss.com/docs/mainten...

@kevinpowell.co thanks for the shoutout in your newsletter about the potential of a #webcomponents conference! bsky.app/profile/mich... The unofficial planning committee is now Me @stuffbreaker.bsky.social @cory.laviska.com @zachleat.com check out the interest form! we’re still gathering data!

After moving, we no longer have chickens but we have tons of baby dinosaurs.

Well well, what do we have here? Try it Chrome Canary. #CSS #AnchorPositioning #DevTools

Calling all fellow web devs, design engineers, and web components nerds! Would you be interested in a #WebComponents conference??? Let us know! #html #css #javascript #WebDev #DesignSystems

Hell yeah I’m in

I’ve been waiting for this! There is a polyfill from GitHub team that they are already using. There is also a strong possibility that this feature will make it into Interop 2027.

Wait, now we can have screen reader announcements without ARIA live region hacks?! Baseline 2026 🤯 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

just found the holy grail of iframe sizing in a Chrome update "Chrome 154 adds support for responsively-sized iframes, letting an <iframe> element in a parent document size itself to the embedded document…" developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-...

what a time to be alive not sure if that's sarcasm or excitement though

seeing a lot of emails from companies I haven't logged into or subscribed to in years suddenly appear in my inbox my hunch is that they're trying to drum up business because traffic is falling likely due to AI anyone seeing the same thing?

great post by @chriscoyier.net on some new HTML stuff blog.master.dev/new-things-y...

An honor, sir! Can’t wait to do it again. If you’re in the design system space, give @michaelwarren.dev a follow.

"Acceptance is really misunderstood because acceptance can be misinterpreted as, 'Oh, suddenly I'm cool with all of the downsides, all of the harms, all of the risks around this technology.'" 🎯 by @bradfrost.com bradfrost.com/blog/post/gr...

Looks like Interop 2027 proposals close today. Got a web platform gap that still burns (CSS, a11y, web components)? File or boost an issue before the window shuts. webkit.org/blog/18283/s...

i keep discovering things I probably should have know for years, like pressing OPTION to copy a file's pathname way easier than get info > select pathname > copy

I don't miss Sass, I miss named breakpoints. We can almost get there with raw CSS. 🤏 www.abeautifulsite.net/posts/named-...

underrated AI tweet

instead of skills to pay the bills, now we have bills to pay the skills

The `wa-tag-input` is terrific and much-needed. Thank you all for your hard work on the best component library there is!

I haven't used Sass or Less for years now that CSS nesting and CSS custom properties exist. Has anyone else gone CSS-only? (yes I know preprocessors do more, but this is all I usually want from them)

wait you can swipe left/right on the address bar in iOS safari to switch tabs? TIL

Tag, you're it! 🏷️ Web Awesome 3.13 is out. The new experimental <wa-tag-input> turns keywords, emails, and labels into tidy, removable tags. We also fixed up the data grid and promoted 11 components to stable. webawesome.com/docs/resourc...

For reusable components: has anyone stress tested the seams around Light versus Shadow DOM? Hypothetically: 20 light DOM nodes per instance versus 1 light DOM node (with 19 shadow DOM nodes) per instance. 40 vs. 1+39? and instances? I don’t think I have a baseline intuition on the costs there.