Cory LaViska
@cory.laviska.com
Just a guy with a laptop and a dream.
“He taught me that […] the system is designed so anyone can keep up. If you’re more driven than most people, you can do way more than anyone expects. And this principle applies to all of life, not just school.”
sive.rs/kimo
sive.rs/kimo
There’s no speed limit | Derek Sivers
sive.rs
October 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
“He taught me that […] the system is designed so anyone can keep up. If you’re more driven than most people, you can do way more than anyone expects. And this principle applies to all of life, not just school.”
sive.rs/kimo
sive.rs/kimo
Reposted by Cory LaViska
Reposted by Cory LaViska
web components
web components
October 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
web components
Reposted by Cory LaViska
HEY HEY, the Design Tokens Specification is stable! This is absolutely phenomenal news for the design system community and the technology industry in general. www.w3.org/community/de...
Design Tokens specification reaches first stable version | Design Tokens Community Group
www.w3.org
October 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
HEY HEY, the Design Tokens Specification is stable! This is absolutely phenomenal news for the design system community and the technology industry in general. www.w3.org/community/de...
Reposted by Cory LaViska
<head> and <header> imply the existence of <headest>.
October 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
<head> and <header> imply the existence of <headest>.
“The interesting part is not how much better React is—it's how little progress we've actually made.”
backbonenotbad.hyperclay.com
backbonenotbad.hyperclay.com
React vs Backbone in 2025
A comparison between a React and Backbone password strength app
backbonenotbad.hyperclay.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
“The interesting part is not how much better React is—it's how little progress we've actually made.”
backbonenotbad.hyperclay.com
backbonenotbad.hyperclay.com
Why should your UI library die with your framework?
October 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Why should your UI library die with your framework?
I went to this website to read about pesky cookie banners but this was the first thing I saw. 🫠
nednex.com/en/the-inter...
nednex.com/en/the-inter...
October 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I went to this website to read about pesky cookie banners but this was the first thing I saw. 🫠
nednex.com/en/the-inter...
nednex.com/en/the-inter...
Reposted by Cory LaViska
There’s a new type of CSS scroll-state query coming: “scrolled”.
This one remembers the last direction you scrolled into, which you can use to build “hidey bars”: when scrolling down (or having scrolled down), the hidey bar hides itself. When then scrolling back up, the hidey bar reveals itself.
This one remembers the last direction you scrolled into, which you can use to build “hidey bars”: when scrolling down (or having scrolled down), the hidey bar hides itself. When then scrolling back up, the hidey bar reveals itself.
October 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
There’s a new type of CSS scroll-state query coming: “scrolled”.
This one remembers the last direction you scrolled into, which you can use to build “hidey bars”: when scrolling down (or having scrolled down), the hidey bar hides itself. When then scrolling back up, the hidey bar reveals itself.
This one remembers the last direction you scrolled into, which you can use to build “hidey bars”: when scrolling down (or having scrolled down), the hidey bar hides itself. When then scrolling back up, the hidey bar reveals itself.
Is it the same app if all of the source code is rewritten over time? #appOfTheseus
October 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Is it the same app if all of the source code is rewritten over time? #appOfTheseus
If structural engineering was like software engineering:
"Let's build a bridge and see if it works"
*CRASHES INTO RIVER*
"OK let's try a stronger steel this time"
"Let's build a bridge and see if it works"
*CRASHES INTO RIVER*
"OK let's try a stronger steel this time"
October 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
If structural engineering was like software engineering:
"Let's build a bridge and see if it works"
*CRASHES INTO RIVER*
"OK let's try a stronger steel this time"
"Let's build a bridge and see if it works"
*CRASHES INTO RIVER*
"OK let's try a stronger steel this time"
“Apple says that the new toggle was added because during the beta testing period over the summer, user feedback suggested that some people would prefer to have a more opaque option for Liquid Glass.”
lol @ “prefer”
www.macrumors.com/2025/10/20/i...
lol @ “prefer”
www.macrumors.com/2025/10/20/i...
iOS 26.1 Beta 4 Lets Users Control Liquid Glass Transparency with New Toggle
With the fourth betas of iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS 26.1, Apple has introduced a new setting that's designed to allow users to customize...
www.macrumors.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
“Apple says that the new toggle was added because during the beta testing period over the summer, user feedback suggested that some people would prefer to have a more opaque option for Liquid Glass.”
lol @ “prefer”
www.macrumors.com/2025/10/20/i...
lol @ “prefer”
www.macrumors.com/2025/10/20/i...
I normally don’t RT the R word but this is good advice.
New blog article is out! This time about “controlled” forms. You don’t really need them for very many use cases these days, but there are way too many of them out there.
#react #frontend
michaelwarren.dev/blog/control...
#react #frontend
michaelwarren.dev/blog/control...
You probably don‘t need controlled forms
Controlled forms, form element values, and validation should be a last resort, not a first choice and I‘ll explain why.
michaelwarren.dev
October 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I normally don’t RT the R word but this is good advice.
“A skill is a Markdown file telling the model how to do something, optionally accompanied by extra documents and pre-written scripts that the model can run to help it accomplish the tasks described by the skill.”
just point it to the docs 🫠
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...
just point it to the docs 🫠
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...
Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models: Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills …
simonwillison.net
October 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
“A skill is a Markdown file telling the model how to do something, optionally accompanied by extra documents and pre-written scripts that the model can run to help it accomplish the tasks described by the skill.”
just point it to the docs 🫠
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...
just point it to the docs 🫠
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...
You know what GitHub could really use?
Another Copilot icon.
Another Copilot icon.
October 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
You know what GitHub could really use?
Another Copilot icon.
Another Copilot icon.
Reposted by Cory LaViska
With View Transitions now being Baseline Newly available, and the View Transition API consisting of various features, it can be confusing to know what is supported in which browser versions.
To help with that, I created this VT Feature Explorer (powered by View Transitions)
web.dev/blog/same-do...
To help with that, I created this VT Feature Explorer (powered by View Transitions)
web.dev/blog/same-do...
October 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
With View Transitions now being Baseline Newly available, and the View Transition API consisting of various features, it can be confusing to know what is supported in which browser versions.
To help with that, I created this VT Feature Explorer (powered by View Transitions)
web.dev/blog/same-do...
To help with that, I created this VT Feature Explorer (powered by View Transitions)
web.dev/blog/same-do...