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Cory LaViska

@cory.laviska.com

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Just a guy with a laptop and a dream. Design systems + web components + web standards + open source. Bluesky user #456. 📍 New Hampshire

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · Nov 5

if you wanna be good at something you just have to do it.

“but I suck at it!”

so what, just do it. And do it again. And again. And again. And then maybe you’ll still suck at it but you’ll suck more confidently and tbh nobody knows wtf they’re doing except maybe NASA so

Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 22h

“AI art is an interesting technology because despite its growing popularity, nobody seems to want it. Artists hate using it. Consumers hate consuming it. And yet it thrives, like an Arby's built inside a protected forest.”

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 2d

“This October, the Internet Archive will celebrate an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved and available for access via the Wayback Machine.”

blog.archive.org/trillion/

Celebrating 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived | Internet Archive Blogs

blog.archive.org

Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 3d

oh you have a connecting flight? HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT OUR SKY MILES PROGRAM

Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 3d

just once let me get on a flight without a 10 minute credit card spiel ffs

Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 3d

Our low-level brains will for sure get weaker, but developers will adapt and become stronger, faster, and more capable than ever before.

Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 3d

We’re not there yet. We may never get there. But there’s a good chance we do get there. And if we do, knowing what a bubble sort is and when to use it will be way more important than knowing how to implement it from scratch.

Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 3d

There are many posts about AI making our code brains weaker and I agree, but I think there’s something to be said about learning how to build things *without* the fundamentals.

www.theargumentmag.com/p/you-have-1...

“You have 18 months”

The real deadline isn’t when AI outsmarts us — it’s when we stop using our own minds.

www.theargumentmag.com

Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 3d

walking to the less busy side of the airport for a moment of tranquility

Rick from Rick and Morty walking peacefully through a field

Rick sitting on a private toilet on an alien planet

Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 5d

there's something very satisfying about @zed.dev

Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 6d

“Deep Work is the kind of work that requires a big part of your brain power and usually gives some unique value. It can’t be done while distracted!”

workweave.dev/blog/distrac...

Distracting software engineers is way more harmful than most managers think - Weave - X-ray vision for engineering teams

Weave combines LLMs and domain-specific machine learning to understand engineering work.

Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 7d

“An effect that’s being more and more widely reported is the increase in time it’s taking developers to modify or fix code that was generated by Large Language Models.”

codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/c...

Comprehension Debt: The Ticking Time Bomb of LLM-Generated Code

An effect that’s being more and more widely reported is the increase in time it’s taking developers to modify or fix code that was generated by Large Language Models. If you’ve wo…

codemanship.wordpress.com

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Web Awesome @webawesome.com · 7d

Web Awesome makes drawers easy. And with declarative invokers, you can open and close them without writing any JavaScript.

Screenshot of a Web Awesome drawer from the docs.

Reposted by Cory LaViska

Quiet UI @quietui.org · 7d

Quiet Restyle is an opinionated CSS reset that makes browsers look like they're not from 1992. You can think of it as a smarter, prettier user agent stylesheet.

quietui.org/docs/restyle

Quiet Restyle · Quiet UI

An opinionated CSS reset you can use with or without Quiet's components.

Reposted by Cory LaViska

Raymond Camden @raymondcamden.com · 8d

That is bad ass.

Web Awesome @webawesome.com · 8d

Format relative times like a champ with our declarative wrapper around the platform's Intl.RelativeTimeFormat API.

webawesome.com/docs/compone...

Screenshot of the first relative time example from the docs.

Reposted by Cory LaViska

Quiet UI @quietui.org · 8d

Use light and dark mode on the same page by applying `class="quiet-light"` and `class="quiet-dark".

Screenshot of a light and dark mode card with text and a button.

Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 9d

I’ll bite. Why? I’ve grown to like it since it’s cleaner than using “as”

Reposted by Cory LaViska

Web Awesome @webawesome.com · 9d

🌟 Add user feedback to your app with ease!

The <wa-rating> component lets you customize ratings with labels, precision, sizing, custom icons, and more.

Check out the docs and make your UI shine! 📊✨

Screenshot of the rating component

Reposted by Cory LaViska

Quiet UI @quietui.org · 9d

Toggle Icons are checkboxes disguised as icons, an accessible way to add visual flair when a standard checkbox just wont do.

quietui.org/docs/compone...

Three toggle icons screenshotted from the dos.

Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 10d

lazy Sunday before a big push

A leghorn and an Americana chicken pose in the yard

Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 10d

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The finished product, a Lego NES on display

The finished product, a Lego Gameboy model, on display with other NES stuff

Reposted by Cory LaViska

Quiet UI @quietui.org · 10d

Eat your heart out, iOS. Works with touch, mouse, and keyboard with screen reader support.

quietui.org/docs/compone...

Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 11d

Amazing it still works! How’s the screen?

Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 11d

it’s time

Lego set: Gameboy edition

Reposted by Cory LaViska

Quiet UI @quietui.org · 11d

Here’s a component that shows random content from a collection. Great for testimonials, tips, quotes, and more.

quietui.org/docs/compone...

<quiet-random-content>
<div class="box">A</div>
<div class="box">B</div>
<div class="box">C</div>
<div class="box">D</div>
</quiet-random-content>

Reposted by Cory LaViska

Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 12d

I’ve gotten a few questions from folks who are potentially interested in my new animations course, but want to test it out first, to see what my teaching style is like.

Well, good news! I’ve just published a couple lessons from “Whimsical Animations”. 🎉

Check it out:

Introduction • Whimsical Animations

Welcome, prospective student! This small collection of lessons is designed to give you a feel for my teaching style, and the way the content is structured. I hope it helps give you a sense of what the...

courses.joshwcomeau.com