Matt Waler's Blog

My take on how every "smart" product is a future headache, and the quiet superpower of choosing the dumbest things that work 100% of the time.

My personal opinions on how we should be leveraging AI in development to promote individual growth and prevent vibe-coded catastrophes.

With the adoption of container queries in all browsers, it's time to use them to fix typography systems.

By keeping things simple, isolated to single files, and scoped, pieces from projects can be easily shared across clients and speed up development time significantly.

How to create a lazy blur-up image effect on your images in an Astro project.

In order to use tailwind with lit and custom html elements, you need to disable the shadow dom.

On larger projects that utilize multiple templating languages to accomplish server-side and client-side rendering, using lit to create custom html elements can solve your problems.