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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 · 10/08/2026

Whether you're using AI or not, they give some kind of structure. As humans like structure. And just because you're not using AI, doesn't mean that your coworker isn't going to let Claude rip in the background on your project. Better to have patterns it can follow versus letting it go wild west.

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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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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

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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

Properly busting that cache. Service workers can also be annoying if you don't know how to use the workbox API. Indicating a manual refresh when the application code has changed helps a lot. "The app has updated. Refresh to get the new experience" `<button>Refresh</button>`

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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 · 22/06/2026

I almost invested when they went public lol. Glad I didn't

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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 · 20/06/2026

Android with family link is what we use and it's SO much better

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Quin Carter @quincarter.com · 09/06/2026

Or you could write a script that deterministically generates components? Maybe? Then the skill references that

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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 · 30/05/2026

This is a heckin hard problem indeed, my friend. I think you summed it up in the first 30 seconds - coding was never the bottleneck. I feel like you ran into corporate red tape, but also hard app limitations too. Which AI cannot solve.

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

The Pope would say to use the language as it was intended. I'd imagine. They still do sermons in Latin. I don't think they would switch to pig Latin because it was easier or cute. 🐷

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

Currently building an sdk for something I'm cooking up on the side. May mix in web components into this. But spoiler alert - it's Android XR based. Should work on the audio and display glasses.

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

What about a secretary of performance

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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 · 25/05/2026

You don't sound like an AI. You make spelling mistakes. And your grammar is human. I think you're safe

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