---
title: "How to Hallucinate using Web Components—zachleat.com"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-hallucinate-using-web-components-zachleat-com-dxg43isli
source_url: https://www.zachleat.com/web/hallucinate/
type: article
source: "Zach Leatherman"
published: 2025-11-25T14:06:34.181Z
updated: 2025-11-25T14:06:52.340Z
tags: ["webdev", "javascript", "html", "web-components"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 3
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# How to Hallucinate using Web Components—zachleat.com

**[Zach Leatherman](https://daily.dev/sources/zachleat)** · 2 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A satirical tutorial demonstrating how to create an AI-like text animation effect using the <squirm-inal> Web Component. The component progressively animates pre-written content to mimic chatbot typing patterns, offering a humorous alternative to actual LLM-generated text. Implementation requires wrapping HTML content in the custom element with configurable speed and autoplay attributes, using CDN delivery with subresource integrity for security.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://www.zachleat.com/web/hallucinate/>

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