Benny Powers: Web Developer

Setting `ariaDescribedByElements` on a node silently fails when the target is in a different shadow root.

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In 2024 we server-rendered Lit web components in Drupal using a Node.js sidecar container.

Server-rendered web components require no javascript up front.

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Just because we could didn't mean that we should

Has keyboard endgame been acheived?

An opinionated development server for HTML and custom elements.

After 3+ years, Apollo Elements v3.0.0 is here with Apollo Client 4 support, Node.js 24, and a cleaner API.

דרשה על ספירת העומר ואיסרו חג שניתנה בבית הכנסת שערי רחמים ושמחה בירושלים

The Jewish people are fighting for their lives.

Remember wishing your editor actually *understood* your custom elements?

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The BlueBuild project is an easy and fun way to customize your own operating system.

Design tokens are the single source of truth for UI styling.

Design systems are tools, not solutions.

The react team could have implemented HTML support in React 18, they could have even let others do it for them, but they didn't.

Try using decorators to narrow the type of JavaScript subclass accessors

In honour of Hannukah this year, I undertook to write 8 web components tips, one for each night of the festival.

Node 22.6 introduced the --experimental-strip-types flag, and eleventy 3.0.0 adds support for JavaScript module configs, which means we can set up an 11ty project written in TypeScript using esm and build it without tsc.

Self-hosting the firefish fediverse microblogging app isn't as hard as you might think.

In large organizations, it takes many inputs across multiple teams to produce a single web page.

Mastodon is probably a great idea, but is extremely hostile to Jews, so I'm out

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Unsuspecting #react users may come to believe that #WebComponents break react, but the truth is - as usual - exactly the opposite.

Organize and automate your 11ty blog's post structure with ISO dates and some quick JavaScript.

esm lets you seamlessly combine cjs and js modules with little fuss, if you're transpiling just to use import, chances are you shouldn't.

A tale of two face-palms

You don't need to give up your frameworks to use web components.

Let's build a web component to embed a dev.to feed in a page.

How to overlay content on top of an image or other element simply using CSS Grid.

Some say that promises shouldn't be used when async await is available but that's not always true.

Stripe Elements custom elements work across front-end frameworks and even in vanilla HTML and JS.

Build and accessible, web-native colour picker component that works in any framework with the web components APIs.

Using Lit-style reactive controllers, learn how to easily add redux-style state reducers to your web components.

Use the new form-associated custom elements and ElementInternals standards to create accessible custom elements which behave like native HTML form controls.

Let's use makecode to turn a micro:bit into a dreidle!

Instead of one night of web components posts, we get eight crazy nights!

Let's spice up the stock makecode countdown tutorial

Use SVG icons in Eleventy and only ship the code you need.

Save money and build minutes while rebuilding your 11ty site using GitHub Actions and the netlify CLI

New Neovim Plugin - separate lists into multiple lines then glue them back together

Putting some shine on one of Makecode's built-in exercises.

Thoughts from my first attempt at understanding the new WebC framework from 11ty

Wrapping emoji in element with #aria-label is an #accessibility practice recommended by experts like Leonie Watson.

#eli5 (explain to me like I'm 5-years-old) what #WebComponents are and how they're different from #javascript-heavy #frameworks

New Neovim Plugin - Basic support for WebC files

מקלדת נוחה וארגונומית לעברית שמבוסס על המקלדת הלטינית דבוראק

Import maps, the new browser standard, open up a world of possibilities for factoring and optimizing web pages and experiences.

Use #Neovim's #treesitter and #lua APIs to script a function that toggles between #HTML and #markdown image synax