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New platform, new introduction! 👋 I'm Hawk, a design developer currently working on design systems, marketing sites, and other bits/pieces at Microsoft's Developer Division. Below is a tiny speed run of my work and life from the last few years...

Hawk Ticehurst

@hawkticehurst.com

A highlight at Microsoft has been building the Webview UI Toolkit for VS Code. It's a project I've watched grow from empty repo, to being used by teams like GitHub Next and GitLens, to now sadly being sunset in January -- it's been quite the journey. github.com/microsoft/vs...

2/11/24, 1:12 am0 reposts1 like

Hawk Ticehurst

@hawkticehurst.com

2 Nov 2024

Working on a web component library, coincidentally, means I talk a lot about web components. Some of my favorites pieces of writing on the topic are: - hawkticehurst.com/2023/11/you-... - hawkticehurst.com/2023/11/a-ye... - hawkticehurst.com/2023/12/let-...

hawkticehurst.comYou're (probably) using connectedCallback wrongI checked the spec and most people are configuring their web components incorrectly.

Hawk Ticehurst

@hawkticehurst.com

2 Nov 2024

I also spend a fair bit of time on side projects. A favorite is Stellar, a framework for building reactive HTML Web Components. Stellar's novel feature is "HTML-based state" where reactive state is defined in HTML and then made accessible for manipulation in JavaScript. github.com/hawkticehurs...

Hawk Ticehurst

@hawkticehurst.com

2 Nov 2024

I also have a past life in filmmaking. I was an early intern at Cut (a YouTube company) where I did everything from editing to producing to directing videos. Fun story: My very first day, some people no-showed on a film shoot and I ended up in a viral video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=re5T...

youtube.comBartenders Guess Who's Underage 1 | Lineup | CutYouTube video by Cut

Hawk Ticehurst

@hawkticehurst.com

2 Nov 2024

I still make small videos here and there. Here's one from last year on what I think is a surprisingly powerful way of building UI using vanilla techniques.