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Quin Carter @quincarter.com · 01/09/2026

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.

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Michael Warren @michaelwarren.dev · 27/08/2026

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...

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Inheritance, the cascade, and shadow dom encapsulation

Inheritance and cascading styles are different and it might be that not a lot of people know. Also shadow dom only encapsulates one of them. Can you guess which one?

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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 24/08/2026

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 😅

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Michael Warren @michaelwarren.dev · 25/08/2026

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

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Quin Carter @quincarter.com · 27/08/2026

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...

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Inheritance, the cascade, and shadow dom encapsulation

Inheritance and cascading styles are different and it might be that not a lot of people know. Also shadow dom only encapsulates one of them. Can you guess which one?

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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 24/08/2026

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

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Quin Carter @quincarter.com · 09/08/2026

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.

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Leonardo DiCaprio Pointing Meme

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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 02/08/2026

Next question is now live!

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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 03/08/2026

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

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Asked 100 devs: What is one thing you wish you could do in CSS that is currently impossible?

Answer one question. Help decide the top 5.

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Quin Carter @quincarter.com · 09/08/2026

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!

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Meet BrewMe: a Local-First Coffee Companion - Quin Carter - Brain Dump

The story of how I rebuilt my coffee brewing app twice, from a stale Ionic/Angular hybrid, through an overcomplicated Next.js version that cost me a lot of users, to a back-to-basics Lit Element rewri...

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Quin Carter @quincarter.com · 09/08/2026

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...

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Building Apps with Lit in 2026 - Quin Carter - Brain Dump

An expanded walkthrough of my "Building Apps with Lit Element in 2026" talk. Covers app shell architecture and routing (@lit-labs/router and Vaadin Router), dependency injection with @lit/context, asy...

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Michael Warren @michaelwarren.dev · 26/07/2026

web components features coming in hot!

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Craig Roblewsky @pointc.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

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?

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Steve from Multiplicity Drinks Soda

Alt: Steve from Multiplicity Drinks Soda

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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 04/07/2026

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.

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Quin Carter @quincarter.com · 27/06/2026

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.

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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 25/06/2026

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...

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Thoughtful Design Systems - a course by Kevin Powell and Michael Warren

Founded by Kevin Powell, with curated learning paths, courses, and clear explanations that will have you writing CSS with confidence.

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Quin Carter @quincarter.com · 25/06/2026

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

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Quin Carter @quincarter.com · 21/06/2026

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...

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Almost a year after giving engineers access to Claude and Cursor, Disney tells engineers: Minimise AI-coded products that ...

Tech News News: Disney started allowing its engineers to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools like Claude and Cursor last year. Now, the entertainment giant is aski.

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Quin Carter @quincarter.com · 30/05/2026

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

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Michael Warren @michaelwarren.dev · 30/05/2026

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...

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A bunch of ways AI won‘t make us more productive

An anecdotal example of how easily AI can be made irrelevant when it comes to actually trying to build things that solve real problems.

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Quin Carter @quincarter.com · 25/05/2026

Also. I'm learning Kotlin again. It's so freaking powerful as a language platform.

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Quin Carter @quincarter.com · 25/05/2026

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

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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 21/05/2026

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...

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State of CSS 2026

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Quin Carter @quincarter.com · 19/05/2026

This little guy is living his best life for sure

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Firefox for Web Developers @webdevs.firefox.com · 18/05/2026

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

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Quin Carter @quincarter.com · 15/05/2026

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!

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Quin Carter @quincarter.com · 13/05/2026

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

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Michael Warren @michaelwarren.dev · 12/05/2026

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

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TanStack npm Packages Compromised in Ongoing Mini Shai-Hulud...

Socket detected 84 compromised TanStack npm package artifacts modified with suspected CI credential-stealing malware.

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Michael Warren @michaelwarren.dev · 11/05/2026

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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Justin Fagnani @justinfagnani.com · 10/05/2026

🎉😱

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Quin Carter @quincarter.com · 10/05/2026

Been there. Done that.

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Quin Carter @quincarter.com · 10/05/2026

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

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How I use AI in my daily work as a Software Engineer - Quin Carter - Brain Dump

2026 is a hot year for AI everything. In the midst of all the slop, I want to try to shed some light on how I actually use AI in my work, and things I have noticed it does well, or doesn't do well as ...

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Quin Carter @quincarter.com · 08/05/2026

Why does my web component need a worker? I'll answer that question with another question - why not?

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Michael Warren @michaelwarren.dev · 08/05/2026

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”

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Quin Carter @quincarter.com · 08/05/2026

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

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Nathan Fielder: Deep Thought Moment

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Michael Warren @michaelwarren.dev · 06/05/2026

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.

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Michael Warren @michaelwarren.dev · 05/05/2026

man all you folks in europe making me jealous haha!

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Michael Warren @michaelwarren.dev · 05/05/2026

pnpm is the best!!

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Michael Warren @michaelwarren.dev · 05/05/2026

hey hey! i write all my stuff myself!

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Michael Warren @michaelwarren.dev · 06/05/2026

Also, we went to the 4:15 showing and were the only people in the place. Had the theater to ourselves and it still wasn’t worth it. I’ll just wait to see movies until they come out on the streaming platforms i already pay for and my whole family can watch it for $5 at home.

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Michael Warren @michaelwarren.dev · 06/05/2026

so weird that all standards started as non-standards lol

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Quin Carter @quincarter.com · 29/04/2026

Hot take. AI. That's all.

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🧟‍♂️Bryan’s Resident Evil🧬 @bryanfdn.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Preorder payment has been charged. It’s happening. 😩😩

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