Cory LaViska

@cory.laviska.com

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Just a guy with a laptop and a dream. Design systems, web components, open source, and macOS apps. Follow me if you build on the web.

Why don't you take pull requests? Several reasons: I am a control freak who has a hard time accepting code without rewriting it to fit my precise idea of the tao of the system. I do not enjoy reviewing code all that much. I resent the dynamic of people being able to dump a bunch of annoying work in my lap with the implication that I'm being rude or neglectful if I don't act on it, along with the emotional work of tactfully turning them down when I don't like what they did. Not having PRs is an effective way to nip the problem of people submitting LLM-generated slop code in the bud. This is my zen garden. You are welcome to report bugs, suggest improvements, or rage at my horrible design taste. But if you want to have functionality that I don't feel like building and maintaining, you're going to have to do that in a module of your own.
As a deviation from standard open-source practice, I'm doing an experiment where I don't take pull requests for Wordgard. I've realized that I find those the worst part of maintenance work. Reviewing a big change and negotiating all the adjustments needed to make it fit my expectations is generally more work than implementing the change myself. And now that the cost of generating code has gone down dramatically, the arrangement where people can dump code on me and I'm expected to review and maintain it (or argue why I don't want to, which is also work) has become even less attractive.
Scooby-Doo meme unmasking the villain: Claude
A black Tula Mic shown in front of a mechanical pencil.
screenshot of the TongueType UI showing a rainbow waveform and recording indicator
A cheap billboard that says: SSR issues? Call Konnor
Screenshot of the website but half the page is covered by an ad that’s mostly white space
Liquid glass settings page with clear checked
Rick from Rick and Morty walking peacefully through a field
A leghorn and an Americana chicken pose in the yard
The finished product, a Lego NES on display
Lego set: Gameboy edition
Screenshot of the settings panel
Frankie playlist
An illustration of the Where's Waldo author drawing Waldo. Er, Wally.
legally required cookie banner
a man in a gray hoodie coding on the back of a snow mobile in the artic
Advertisement: More doctors smoke camels than any other cigarette
Two envelopes with snowflake Christmas stamps
A screenshot of the little inconspicuous button that I haven’t noticed after all this time
screenshot of example.com being down
"Thought for 53s" No response.
Street Sign Rd., Runner Jack’s Mannequin tonight
A bucket with water and holes in it. Available credits trickle in from above while tokens spent and requests leak out.
dude wearing baggy ass jncos
Another screenshot of the same carousel on a different slide.
Screenshot of a carousel showing five slides
Two wet glasses on a cloth. One right side up and one upside down.
Label: Amenities A group of tags, some selected, are shown under the label: wifi, kitchen, washer, dryer, TV, free parking, etc.
A riding lawn mower stuck in the mud, covered in mud.
Text next to a <mark> showing a red line where the marked text's baseline is 1-2px lower than the rest of the text.
Screenshot of the Custom Routing screen on GitHub.
TI 89 calculator
invalid handle
A web developer with a hoodie building incredible things
A keyboard with three buttons: Ctrl, C, and V
a man dunks two basketballs in two hoops with one jump
screenshot of an LLM with the prompt ending in: "Speak like yoda too." and it replies with: Analyze the code I must, and the solution provide I shall. Hmm, yes.
you know, i'm something of a coder myself
same screenshot as the first tweet, but this one looks more macOS-style
Screenshot of a browser window UI component with an address bar and Safari-like traffic lights. Under the header is a "window" for arbitrary content.
Screenshot of the app with a joystick touch controller
Screenshot of the game showing asteroids, a black hole, and a shield power up.
Screenshot of the game
a login form with a checkbox that says "Trust this device for 30 days" and an arrow pointing to it
A form showing three red outlined fields with errors under them.
On this day 15 years ago: me: in movie “brownies are ready” In real life: oven beeps – brownies really already. Incredible timing.
Max brightness is like 3% or so
bikes locked up on the sidewalk in Amsterdam. So many bikes.
The windows desktop with a Microsoft teams window with an offset/chopped off dialog and no images whatsoever
Screenshot of MDN showing Firefox 71 releasing a flag in 2019 to enable the web share API
my gray tabby standing like a meerkat
Screenshot of the Claude web app: What personal preferences should Claude consider in responses? BETA Claude can use these preferences in every chat along with project instructions and styles, so use thoughtfully. Content: Please do not use React or Tailwind unless explicitly asked for.
my boy laying on the ground playing in a cardboard box
A Traeger smoker searing a roast
Me driving behind two plow trucks and a snowstorm
A Pants cartoon of a man painting on a messy canvas. The caption reads: "The next brushstroke could change everything."
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A silver Kuru Toga pencil on a black granite counter.