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Justin Fagnani @justinfagnani.com · 12/03/2026

I just noticed that @lit.dev crossed the 5M downloads/week mark on npm! 🎉 That's more than 2x in the last year, and 6x in the last three years 🚀

A graph from npmtrends.com of lit downloads over the last 5 years, showing growth from 0 to 5,000,000

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 12/03/2026

WebKit blocking interop on CSS modules (import … with { type: "css" }) [1] affects a lot more than meets the eye. It means web component authors cannot make component styles a first-class dependency unless they’re willing to stuff them into a JS string. [1] caniuse.com/wf-css-modules

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CSS import attributes | Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 09/12/2025

That's no global var 👀 that's a class with a mutable static member

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 29/10/2025

Trying @diabrowser.com again with the new focus mode. It's super snappy compared to Arc but the lack of site search and color-coding of my windows for profiles is sorta debilitating for my workflows >.<

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Lit @lit.dev · 14/10/2025

Lit is joining @openjsf.org! 🎉 Today at JSConf, The OpenJS Foundation announced Lit is officially joining as an Impact Project! We're beyond excited for this move and look forward to continuing our work to build the open web with OpenJS! Read more on our blog: lit.dev/blog/2025-10...

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Lit is Joining the OpenJS Foundation!

Lit is officially joining the OpenJS Foundation as an Impact Project!

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Lit @lit.dev · 25/08/2025

🥳 Congrats on the launch, @developer.mozilla.org! Yet another piece of our web dev tool belt built with web components and Lit 😎

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 25/08/2025

Your daily dose of SSR DevX footguns

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 17/05/2025

Yes, Copilot, I know, I wrote and publicly committed that code and asked you to look it up

screenshot of github copilot chat saying "Sorry, the response matched public code so it was blocked. Please rephrase your prompt. Learn more."

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 13/05/2025

You will know if I've been replaced by an LLM if my code starts saying // console.log(myVal); // remove this line

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 21/04/2025

This Microsoft support forum thread lives in my mind rent free

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 29/03/2025

I finally found a use for one of my lingering domain names! $1/month justified!

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Justin Fagnani @justinfagnani.com · 14/03/2025

Someone posted a link to TanStack Table on the @lit.dev discord. I didn't know about this before, and wow! it looks awesome! The examples show very idiomatic Lit patterns for a headless UI utility. Reactive controllers, repeat(), `@state()`, and more. tanstack.com/table/v8/doc... @tanstack.com

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Lit Table | TanStack Table Lit Docs

The @tanstack/lit-table adapter is a wrapper around the core table logic. Most of it's job is related to managing state the "lit" way, providing types and the rendering implementation of cell/header/f...

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 20/03/2025

My kingdom for regex search in Chrome cmd+f

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 17/03/2025

AI coding agents are a useful bridge for lacking docs

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 14/03/2025

I think I just realized that I styled the dark mode colors of lit.dev on my old WoW days using Tukui

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TypeScript @typescriptlang.org · 11/03/2025

Today we're thrilled to announce our effort to port the TypeScript compiler and language service to native code, gaining a 10x speed boost in build times and editor responsiveness! devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/t...

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A 10x Faster TypeScript - TypeScript

Embarking on a native port of the existing TypeScript compiler and toolset to achieve a 10x performance speed-up.

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 11/03/2025

Whomever decided golang variables should be 1-3 chars should be thrown into the fires of my build errors

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 07/03/2025

After writing a mini-html AST builder, I'm impressed at how quickly HTML as a language bails on unexpected tokens and just calls it Text or a Bogus Comment

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 10/02/2025

Sometimes RSCs feel like the tail wagging the dog

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Jason Miller @developit.dev · 10/01/2025

Preact Signals just got a huge performance boost: Signals rendered as text/props & effects only "pull" as fast as needed for rendering. Since computeds run as-needed, they now only re-run as often as their downstream DOM output can be painted. H/t to @jovidecroock.com for making this happen.

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 07/02/2025

You just love to see it!

A screenshot of github of 3 lines: A green checkmark by augustjk, augustjk left a comment: neat!, purple github merge icon: e111077 merged commit 2 minutes ago 15 checks passed

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 03/02/2025

Are you new to Lit & need a jump start? Or are you a Lit veteran & can't quite remember that _one_ callback name? Well do we have the article for you! We've just published the Lit Cheat Sheet! An article that has a bunch of quick code snippets for all sorts of code patterns lit.dev/articles/lit...

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The Lit Cheat Sheet – Lit

Simple. Fast. Web Components.

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 27/01/2025

Has someone made an open source docker image that essentially deploys an open source ChatGPT interface and your favorite locally-hosted model to AWS or whatever? There are so many ChatGPT interface copycats out there, that there really should just be a common open source project that does this

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Nick Williams @wicky.nillia.ms · 08/12/2024

I've never understood the dislike of decorators in the broader JS community. Ad-hoc metaprogramming is everywhere in JS. But formalise it and everyone hates it?

"Know the work rules" meme:

A: log(fn)
B: aww you're sweet
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C: @log
B: hello, human resources?!

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 15/01/2025

Now that AI writes code, can I call mine artisanal and hand-crafted?

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Passle ☭ @passle.dev · 14/01/2025

SWTL really is that one project that I'm really proud of. I'm sure theres lots that can be improved in the code, but its pretty nice how small it is. I'm also very thankful of past me for commenting the code for future me 🙃

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 07/01/2025

Is there no real documentation for the TS Compiler's Node API? Over the years I've just been relying on intellisense, examples, and intuition, but I can't seem to find proper docs or even a tsdoc for it. Am I missing a link here?

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 12/12/2024

Are you a "log in / out" kind of person or a "log on / off" miscreant?

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 04/12/2024

I am 🤏 this close to just replacing our DI system with `globalThis[key]`

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 24/11/2024

The nice thing about Bluesky is that you can block the toxic Tech Twitter people who want to crash the 🦋 party

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Justin Fagnani @justinfagnani.com · 22/11/2024

lit-html crossed 2.5M npm downloads per week and 11M downloads per month last month, and lit crossed 2M npm downloads per week! 📈 #webcomponents @lit.dev

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 22/11/2024

Codebases with require() inside of ESM files deserve a paddlin'

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Lit @lit.dev · 20/11/2024

Very cool - the new GitLens Home View is #builtWithLit and web components! 🔥

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · 21/11/2024

How did I not know about this in @lit.dev TL;DR – you can use `PropertyValues` to get strongly typed maps in lifecycle methods. 🤩

// simple-greeting.ts

import {html, css, LitElement} from 'lit';
import {customElement, property} from 'lit/decorators.js';
import type { PropertyValues } from 'lit';

@customElement('simple-greeting')
export class SimpleGreeting extends LitElement {
@property() name = 'Somebody';

// BEFORE
// updated(changedProperties: Map<string, unknown>) {
// if (changedProperties.has('name')) {
// // works but any key is valid
// }
// }

// AFTER
updated(changedProperties: PropertyValues<this>) {
if (changedProperties.has('name')) {
// works and tells you if a key is incorrect!
}
}

render() {
return html`<p>Hello, ${this.name}!</p>`;
}
}

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Justin Fagnani @justinfagnani.com · 20/11/2024

Now all three major browser engines are working on scoped custom element registries!!! It's been a long time since I first opened the proposal. I almost can't believe it's really happening... #webcomponents

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two men are sitting in a car talking to each other and the words `` it 's happening isn 't it ? ''

ALT: two men are sitting in a car talking to each other and the words `` it 's happening isn 't it ? ''

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Bramus @bram.us · 20/11/2024

As of Chrome 131 you have more options to style `<details>` and `<summary>`. You can now use of the `display` property on these elements, and also use a `::details-content` pseudo-element to style the part that expands and collapses. developer.chrome.com/blog/styling...

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Justin Fagnani @justinfagnani.com · 19/11/2024

If you ever need to coordinate npm scripts you really should check out Wireit Wireit is like the missing script runner for npm. It lets you describe script dependencies, inputs, & outputs; then runs scripts & deps in order and caches their output. github.com/google/wireit

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GitHub - google/wireit: Wireit upgrades your npm/pnpm/yarn scripts to make them smarter and more efficient.

Wireit upgrades your npm/pnpm/yarn scripts to make them smarter and more efficient. - google/wireit

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Burton Smith @stuffbreaker.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I recently worked with a team that told me they couldn't use our web component library because #webcomponents don't work with SSR. There are a lot of misconceptions around this and it is only partially true, so I whipped up this article to help clarify things a little. dev.to/stuffbreaker...

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Web Components and SSR - 2024 Edition

Web components work in SSR, depending on which SSR you're talking about.

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 15/11/2024

Anybody have any thoughts or first hand experience with Jujutsu VCS? It’s similar to a tool I loved at Google but so far quite noisy presentation and model shift github.com/martinvonz/jj

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GitHub - martinvonz/jj: A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful

A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful - martinvonz/jj

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Justin Fagnani @justinfagnani.com · 13/11/2024

Working on a Form Associated Custom Elements helper library RFC for Lit. This should make it a lot easier to make correct and accessible form associated elements. I have the impl basically done too, so things should move quickly once we reach consensus on the API shape. github.com/lit/rfcs/pul...

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Lit @lit.dev · 14/11/2024

✅ DNS verified

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Lit @lit.dev · 13/11/2024

<hello-bluesky>

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