Quin Carter

New blog post. I recently changed roles at work from a mostly Frontend Focused Engineer to a more Developer Experience Focused Engineer. It's been a really interesting shift away from my normal. I decided to write about it. #engineer #devex #javascript #typescript #go quincarter.com/posts/from-f...

I freaking love a good pure CSS solution that really tests people's thoughts about how performant css can be in the browser. This is pretty incredible.

Ever wondered why CSS Custom Properties inherit into web components with Shadow DOM but styles don’t? It’s because Inheritance and the Cascade are different! michaelwarren.dev/blog/inherit...

Native CSS modules are coming to WebKit!! github.com/WebKit/WebKi... WebKit is the last major browser engine to add support, so we'll get to baseline support soon. Servo supports them too 😎

When we got modals with dialog, it already seemed like something that was a pain in the butt was just so easy now... add invoker commands into the mix, and it's almost too easy 😅

please report these lowlifes making this crap. i uninstalled tiktok thankfully, but anyone out there that hasn’t, please report!

Y'all go check out this post by @michaelwarren.dev! I have the privilege of being part of the lunch crew and I love chatting about frontend and CSS talks with these guys. Great group of guys and I love the conversations that keep challenging me to be better. michaelwarren.dev/blog/inherit...

What are some of your favourite uses of @property that aren't animating the colours of a gradient?

Y'all should totally invest in Michael. This guy is a design genius. I love that I get to pick his brain at work and learn about challenging design standards daily. I know that guy.

Next question is now live!

What is one thing you wish you could do in CSS that is currently impossible? Let me know here: asked-100-devs.netlify.app

Recently took an old app I built with angular and ionic and converted it to an entirely Lit app. The app had a login dependency and always deterred people from adopting. Post outlining my story of how this app grew. Mistakes I made. Lessons learned. quincarter.com/posts/introd... Go Give it a shot!

New blog post on building full-scale apps with Lit. I gave this talk this past week at RVA.js - second time this year, and as a Web Components fan, I'm still surprised more people aren't using them. Some folks last week hadn't even heard of Lit Element. Have you? quincarter.com/posts/buildi...

web components features coming in hot!

Remember Multiplicity with Michael Keaton? That's gotta be where AI is headed, right? The first iteration was built on stolen work of people so it was pretty good but now the people stopped creating so it'll just copy itself. We remember how the cloned copy of a copy went in the movie, right?

I'm putting this in my repos at work now to troll people at pre commit. github.com/tbhb/vale-ai...

Web development fucked. Design fucked. Freelancing fucked. Content creation fucked. Education fucked Blogging fucked. Dev rel fucked. Hard to find a purpose in this brave new world.

You know. I hope this triggers the AI-pilled. This is so true about a lot of AI that supposedly will "change the game." You end up coddling the AI and holding its hand to the point that you're taking longer to do a task you could have done yourself. "Don't get left behind" pfft. Whatever.

Design systems have always intrigued me, but they are something that I don't have any experience with, so, I've teamed up with someone who does have that experience!, @michaelwarren.dev! It's still early days, but if you want updates as we work on it, sign up here: thecascade.dev/courses/desi...

I've got a preview of the curriculum and it's great! I can't wait to see how this goes! Congratulations @michaelwarren.dev

I hope this is just the beginning. Use AI responsibly. Shit is expensive, y'all. Tokenmaxing is real and literally throwing away money for mediocre code. Real talk. If this actually happened, I'm glad Disney wants them to minimize AI use. share.google/LfKoxIdi45gV...

#TeamAlgae

#TeamAlgae

This spoke volumes to me. "Coding has never been the bottleneck". BRUH. PREACH

new blog post time! this one is a story of an idea I had at work to build something and all the reasons it was still impossible even with AI. michaelwarren.dev/blog/where-i...

How much do you use web components in your software development?

The State of CSS 2026 survey is out! These survey's are a huge signal to the browser makers on what people want, and the more people fill the out, the better that information is. survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

This little guy is living his best life for sure

Chrome shipped an LLM Prompt API to the web platform. At Mozilla, we oppose this API. Here's why:

This is so true. I've said this like 12 times this week at work. Humans expect certain information and certain tasks to be repeatable. Y'all need to lace determinism into your ai skills. It'll not only use less tokens but it'll make your AI more predictable. Script as much as possible!

I might add some of this to my blog post. Great stuff @michaelwarren.dev

dang now tanstack is compromised (shai hulud) socket.dev/blog/tanstac... i think we’re going to HAVE to slop fork our dependency trees now to avoid these supply chain attacks. i don’t want to but how else can we do it? zero dependency life is looking pretty attractive right now

Tanstack post mortem: tanstack.com/blog/npm-sup...

it’s not, sometimes it’s firefox. and sometimes chrome going so fast screws things up, like with the Prompt API feature no one likes lol

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Been there. Done that.

New Blog Post: How I Use AI In 2026 quincarter.com/posts/how-i-... @michaelwarren.dev @fellaroonie.bsky.social this one was in response to our conversation yesterday. Yall are up! I may add more to this, but this was just my initial brain dump of what I could think of in the moment. I love blogging

i’m tired, boss. tired of explaining the value of ui component libraries to people that have barely ever seen a ui and only want to connect business value to dollars or “apps in production”

What kind of posts do I want to do on this platform? Do I wanna make this about dev rants? Coffee? Home automation? Golf?

Shoutout to Regal Cinemas! Trip to the movies to see Mario Galaxy. Tix for 2 adults, 2 kids: $70. Snacks: $45. My wife and I shared a drink, kids shared a drink, and we got one of their “combo deals”. So if anyone at Regal is confused as to why movie theaters are dying…that’s why.

man all you folks in europe making me jealous haha!

pnpm is the best!!

hey hey! i write all my stuff myself!