After 9 years it's time for me to move on from Google. Incredibly lucky to have met so many *incredible* people during my time at Google as well as have the chance to improve the web platform for everyone out there.

See y'all in the PRs!

By adding dark mode to https://lit.dev and doing some CSS cleanup and SVG optimizations I was able to shave off some more LCP.

My biggest gripe, again, is that I wish SVG `<use>` got the same performance controls as `<img>` around `load=lazy` and `fetchpriority=high`

I hope one day we can get natural border radii in CSS

Images from:
https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/smooth-corner-rounding-in-adobe-illustrator-94003145a7bf

crosspost from the Material Design Twitter:

Introducing Material Web 1.0, Google’s component library that works wherever HTML works 🌐

Learn how you can start using lightweight and accessible Material Components on our updated webpage here → http://goo.gle/3rU528a

🍾🥳🎉

Lit and Shoelace mentioned as a minor side note on The Verge

🍾🥳🎉

(Made with Photoshop on the web that is #builtWithLit)

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/6/23906082/microsoft-windows-app-store-web-version-launch

Confession, I dislike decorators.

Actually, Google internally does not allow users to write their own decorators because it leads to too much ✨magic🌈

Though Lit does a good job of providing simple ones that colocate logic and have direct JS analogs which is a win