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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

> A problem with this solution is that it disables the Google Toolbar (for those who are still using this no longer supported tool, especially for its "I fell lucky" button and its personalized buttons).

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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 · 30/03/2025

Thanks for the heads up, we have a fix in the pipeline!

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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 · 15/03/2025

Yoof that sounds like a nightmare to maintain. Typically every repo at Airbnb has some sort of platform team behind it, but the large repo runs into issues around getting reviewers and tooling around that which I think would be easier for more focused repos

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 15/03/2025

Though in all likelihood I would probably clone before and just FS across repos when necessary because clones take a long time for us and our repos tend to be sufficiently large that migrations tend to be in a few repos

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 15/03/2025

This is all in one repo, our TS / web repo. Most our repo groupings tend to be around language

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 15/03/2025

There’s also Roo Code or Cline which are excellent for smaller migrations where you want more interactivity (or Cursor if you have that legally approved) Happy to chat some more, I’ll clear what I am able to share with someone with a bigger wig

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 15/03/2025

I think the impressive part is how unimpressive and ad hoc the setup is. You have an endpoint to talk to an LLM, write a js async function around it, you tell Claude to output XML, you have a fault-tolerant XML reader to get the output out of the response and you fs your way to glory

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 15/03/2025

It’s not cheap though, because the most capable LLMs are pricey, but luckily our leadership was receptive to the cost benefit analysis of $10s of K’s for LLM costs vs keeping two people on the project for a year and a half

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 15/03/2025

LLMs have been a godsend for us at Airbnb. I basically only write codemods these days just to gather data and context for the LLMs. The problem with the LLM approach though is that you spend lots more time in verification vs a codemod where you can be 80% sure it’s correct.

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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 · 18/02/2025

If you run into trouble and if you're not already on it, the Lit Discord is pretty helpful for general web-component-related stuff and is probably the biggest concentration of people that have used DSD lit.dev/discord

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Join the Lit Discord Server!

Lit is an open-source JavaScript library for building fast, lightweight web components (https://lit.dev) | 4198 members

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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

This is when you stop using the web app and start using the API

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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

Anything from templating, to styles, to signals, get your fix with a quick CMD+F or a CMD+K and fiddle around with our interactive code samples to your heart's content! Want something included in the cheat sheet? File an issue here or submit a PR by editing the page: github.com/lit/lit.dev/...

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Build software better, together

GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.

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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 · 28/01/2025

Though I sorta doubt a personal, cloud-hosted instance of this is actually cheaper. Otherwise, maybe an open source FE that just gives you at-cost API calls is probably enough

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 28/01/2025

Not really what I think I'm looking for A self-hosted model is important because it should be easy to launch your own, private instance of "chatGPT" where the only middleman is the infra provider providing the VMs rather than these companies that just upcharge you on API calls to OpenAI / Deepseek

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Elliott @techytacos.dev · 27/01/2025

Hugging Face's GH org seems to have a lot of the parts, but not really an AIO setup w/ a FE

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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

Brb putting my code up on Etsy

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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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