Burton Smith
@stuffbreaker
Fun-loving coder and speaker. I love #webdevelopment, #webcomponents, and #designsystems. Creater of @kickstand_ui. I work @microsoft
Based on a conversation yesterday about custom events, I was playing around with strongly typing events for #WebComponents and decided to do a little write-up on it. #html #javascript dev.to/stuffbreaker/c…
What a great article by Luis Hermosilla! "When machines can mimic anything, authenticity becomes a competitive edge." #WebDev #DesignSystems #Design #UX uxdesign.cc/an-ode-to-brea…
The JSX type generator now generates types for the #css custom properties for your #WebComponents! wc-toolkit.com/integrations/j…
I put together a simple PR to try to improve the @angular / #WebComponents validation. This would let you be more specific about which components get excluded from validation instead of everything. github.com/angular/angula…
I really like when management thinks it's so much better to make everyone full-stack engineers to make the team more efficient... 🤦♂️
Here's a CEM utility I threw together this weekend for something we needed for work. It sorts CEM properties alphabetically and can also sort out deprecated properties. This is helpful for documentation and producing a consistent CEM. #WebComponents wc-toolkit.com/cem-utilities/…
Hello, CodeMashers! We're already planning for CodeMash 2026, and we need your input via our Pre-Conference Survey! Check out our blog post with survey link inside at: codemash.org/codemash-2026-…
As promised, here is a post on subclassing `Event` to create truly custom #JavaScript events in #WebComponents. I'm excited to explore this space a bit more for creating specialized events, not just for web components. dev.to/stuffbreaker/c…
The WC Toolkit Storybook Helpers for #WebComponents now support @storybook v9!!! wc-toolkit.com/integrations/s…
I like how @popcorners added a resealable feature to this bag like I'm not going to eat it all in one sitting... 😅
If Trump's handing out pardons, I know someone who has been waiting for one for a long time.
It would be interesting to see what is being asked of AI to see if we can provide better content for it to train on.
In a world where Google gives us only AI summaries -who's going to create that content?
I know what `aria-controls' is supposed to do, but what does it actually do? #webdev #a11y