iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 30/09/2026

I use `color-mix(in srgb, red 50%, transparent)` for mixing alpha in CSS but thrilled to see the new alpha() is baseline 2026!

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 23/09/2026

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

Screenshot of a desktop icon's context menu, highlighting Copy "test.html" as Pathname which shows when you press option

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 22/09/2026

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

:root {
--viewport: 'desktop';

@media (max-width: 64em) {
--viewport: 'tablet';
}

@media (max-width: 37.5em) {
--viewport: 'mobile';
}
}

@container style(--viewport: 'mobile') {
/* Styles for the mobile bucket */
}

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 21/08/2026

"When such a script is on the page, the browser would load the custom element from the module, wait until it fully resolves and registers, and then paint. That means zero FOUCE out of the box…" What if? 🤔 www.abeautifulsite.net/posts/fouce-...

<script type="element" src="my-button.js"></script>

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 12/08/2026

This might be obvious to some, but the & in CSS nesting doesn't have to come first. 🤯 Put it after another selector and the relationship flips. You're styling the element based on what surrounds it, not what's inside it.

```css
.card {
background: white;
color: black;

/* When the card is inside a dark container */
.dark & {
background: #1c1e21;
color: white;
}
}
```

That compiles to the equivalent of this.

```css
.card {
background: white;
color: black;
}

.dark .card {
background: #1c1e21;
color: white;
}
```

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 05/07/2026

How can you tell it's AI? Sometimes it's obvious, but sometimes it's not. There's also the non-AI side of it: wordgard.net/docs/faq/#h-...

Why don't you take pull requests?
Several reasons:

I am a control freak who has a hard time accepting code without rewriting it to fit my precise idea of the tao of the system.

I do not enjoy reviewing code all that much. I resent the dynamic of people being able to dump a bunch of annoying work in my lap with the implication that I'm being rude or neglectful if I don't act on it, along with the emotional work of tactfully turning them down when I don't like what they did.

Not having PRs is an effective way to nip the problem of people submitting LLM-generated slop code in the bud.

This is my zen garden. You are welcome to report bugs, suggest improvements, or rage at my horrible design taste. But if you want to have functionality that I don't feel like building and maintaining, you're going to have to do that in a module of your own.

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 05/07/2026

Not accepting pull requests isn't common in open source, but I think it will become more common for this very reason.

As a deviation from standard open-source practice, I'm doing an experiment where I don't take pull requests for Wordgard. I've realized that I find those the worst part of maintenance work. Reviewing a big change and negotiating all the adjustments needed to make it fit my expectations is generally more work than implementing the change myself. And now that the cost of generating code has gone down dramatically, the arrangement where people can dump code on me and I'm expected to review and maintain it (or argue why I don't want to, which is also work) has become even less attractive.

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 25/06/2026

when they reply with an em dash

Scooby-Doo meme unmasking the villain: Claude

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 25/06/2026

I made the dictation app *I* wanted. My daughter did the video voice over. tonguetype.app It hasn't got much attention because dictation has been pretty bad historically, but I don't think most people realize how good local models are now. Low downloads, but the app has a great conversion rate.

A black Tula Mic shown in front of a mechanical pencil.

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 29/05/2026

Dictation isn't a new idea, but many people don't use it because of poor experiences they've had in the past. In the age of AI, dictation is an incredible way to interact with your machine! I realized I could prompt faster by talking than by typing, so I researched options...

screenshot of the TongueType UI showing a rainbow waveform and recording indicator

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 22/10/2025

I went to this website to read about pesky cookie banners but this was the first thing I saw. 🫠 nednex.com/en/the-inter...

Screenshot of the website but half the page is covered by an ad that’s mostly white space

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 21/10/2025

This is a lot better so far

Liquid glass settings page with clear checked

Liquid glass settings page with tinted checked

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 05/10/2025

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

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 28/09/2025

lazy Sunday before a big push

A leghorn and an Americana chicken pose in the yard

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 22/09/2025

If you’re not a fan of Liquid Glass give this a try: 1. Settings 2. Accessibility 3. Display & Text Size 4. Reduce Transparency

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 20/09/2025

ugh and this janky half-off-the-screen popover when you long press on a playlist just caused me to drop one onto another and now my Frank Sinatra is mixed with Sublime send help

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 17/09/2025

TIL it's called Where's Wally outside of the US… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%2...

An illustration of the Where's Waldo author drawing Waldo. Er, Wally.

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 11/09/2025

This is fantastic. The cookie banner is especially hilarious. posthog.com

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 06/09/2025

i frequently typo "artifact" into things like "arcticat" and i'm convinced this is who claude thinks I am

a man in a gray hoodie coding on the back of a snow mobile in the artic

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 03/09/2025

we didn’t know what we didn’t know

Advertisement: More doctors smoke camels than any other cigarette

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 21/08/2025

I use VS Code every day 🥲 Oh you must mean this little tiny unlabeled button positioned so inconspicuously that I haven’t even noticed it after all this time. That’s still an extra click. I just want to edit the SVG, not look at it.

A screenshot of the little inconspicuous button that I haven’t noticed after all this time

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 21/08/2025

At some point, @vscode.dev made Image Preview the default editor for SVGs. Here's how to change it back to text. 😅

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 24/07/2025

I may not have gotten an answer, but at least I know the AI thought about it long and hard.

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 06/06/2025

Claude should show a usage bucket instead of a stark warning when usage gets low.

A bucket with water and holes in it. Available credits trickle in from above while tokens spent and requests leak out.

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 01/06/2025

what’s stopping you from coding likes it’s 1995?

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 27/05/2025

I don't love the iOS sniff, but the carousel was designed in such a way that, as new scroll events emerge in [currently] unsupportive browsers, the timing of the dots updating will improve the component automatically. All of this to show these tiny dots.

Another screenshot of the same carousel on a different slide.

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 27/05/2025

I finished up a modern carousel using scroll snap over the weekend. In Chrome, the `scrollsnapchange` and `scrollsnapchanging` events made showing pagination dots an absolute breeze! But Safari & Firefox don't support these events yet…

Screenshot of a carousel showing five slides

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 26/05/2025

There are two types of people: those who dry cups upright and those who dry them upside down.

Two wet glasses on a cloth. One right side up and one upside down.

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 09/05/2025

What do you call this UI component?

Label: Amenities

A group of tags, some selected, are shown under the label: wifi, kitchen, washer, dryer, TV, free parking, etc.

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 08/05/2025

“Honey can you mow the lawn?” No, it’s been raining for a week, it’s too wet. “Honey can you mow the lawn?” No, it’s been raining for a week, it’s too wet.“ Honey can you mow the lawn?” FINE. Result (it was too wet) 😅

A riding lawn mower stuck in the mud, covered in mud.

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 29/04/2025

Does anyone know why we're seeing the baseline of this inline <mark> element shift between Windows and Mac? (1st screenshot; zoom in to see adjacent text) This only happens on [some?] Windows environments. On Mac, it renders correctly where the <mark> text shares the same baseline (2nd screenshot).

Text next to a <mark> showing a red line where the marked text's baseline is 1-2px lower than the rest of the text.

Three words, one marked with a background, and a red line showing a consistent baseline.

mark {
background-color: var(--wa-color-warning-fill-quiet);
color: inherit;
border-radius: var(--wa-border-radius-m);
padding: 0.125em 0.25em;
}

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 28/04/2025

TIL you can route GitHub notification emails to different addresses per organization, which is a game changer for me. Add and verify your alt emails and go to: github.com/settings/not...

Screenshot of the Custom Routing screen on GitHub.

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 13/04/2025

Does everyone keep their college calculator or just me?

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 01/04/2025

btw I can’t DM you and Bluesky says your handle is invalid for some reason

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 27/03/2025

new vibe coding keyboard just dropped

A keyboard with three buttons: Ctrl, C, and V

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 26/03/2025

fixing two bugs with one PR

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 20/03/2025

adding a bit of flavor to claude

screenshot of an LLM with the prompt ending in: "Speak like yoda too." and it replies with: Analyze the code I must, and the solution provide I shall. Hmm, yes.

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 19/03/2025

me when an LLM replies with "you're right..."

you know, i'm something of a coder myself

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 15/03/2025

What do you call this component?

Screenshot of a browser window UI component with an address bar and Safari-like traffic lights. Under the header is a "window" for arbitrary content.

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 26/02/2025

Updated the touch controls to use a joystick.

Screenshot of the app with a joystick touch controller

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 25/02/2025

The retro game I started the other day as an AI experiment is functionally done, so I gave it a domain. www.rocketblaster.app It seems simple, but there's a lot packed in it. Blog post to follow.

Screenshot of the game showing asteroids, a black hole, and a shield power up.

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 21/02/2025

The rumors are true about @grok 3…I made this after the kids went to sleep! 🤯 - natural physics-based movement - asteroids that bounce off each other - parallax for stars - explosion effects - power ups - touch controls - scoring/hits Try it here 👉 rocket-blaster.vercel.app

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