Zach Saucier

This is my type of joke

I'm working on an idea that is meant to give people greater ability to share more facets of themselves online. Let me know if you're interested in hearing more about the idea!

People outside tech starting to realize how quality software and typing/generating code fast are not correlated

Long live fun tech projects

I still use it for finding graphic inspiration. I'm sad Bluesky hasn't enabled j and k navigating functionality (and l for liking) yet

I love the effort but viewing your index.html and seeing a lack of good semantic elements doesn't leave the best first impression. I recommend improving that sooner!

@gsap-greensock.bsky.social

What makes cold-call recruiting messages effective?

I wrote down some of my thoughts:

Staggered physics grid on click ...

This one makes use of some of GSAP's strengths: staggering (including 2D!) and timescaling

codepen.io/ZachSaucier/pen/yyLXZqz

Secret scramble text reveal on hover ...

Here's some demos I made to illustrate some of the formerly-paid plugin functionality that's now free

This uses the ScrambleText plugin
codepen.io/ZachSaucier/pen/QwWVaMo

GSAP is the most comprehensive and capable JavaScript animation library. Now it's completely free for everyone!!

This is great news for the web and for GSAP

A tweet from Daniel Golden (@DanGolden1) saying "This reminds me... The other day I asked an LLM about an obscure CSS bug I was experiencing. It gave a reasonable answer and an article to look into more. It said the author was none other than Zach Saucier, so I clicked it and tit turned out it was a hallucination"

My name is being used as a fake reference for AI suggestions. I take that as a complement

What happens when one's job is replaced by cheaper labor? Thoughts around AI's effect on programming and creative work.

What happens when one's occupation is replaced by AI? I wrote up some of my thoughts on the subject
zachsaucier.com/blog/cheaper-labor

Social media spam networks already exist from Twitter and other places. Transferring between networks is order of magnitudes easier than scaling them up from nothing like when Twitter was started

I'm glad my answer could help!

When the data no longer fits into a URL query param

The creator's niche dilemma and the curator's dilemma Thoughts around social media's limits and how to potentially address them.

I'd like to see a social media site that allows creators to easily post to particular feeds that they own. I wrote about that idea here.

Would you use a site like this?

@bram.us Any way you can bring some attention to this? Seems like an issue with fixed elements (potentially this issue issues.chromium.org/issues/40792... ?). Also with view transitions

And when I said "Windows" I meant "Mac but with scrollbars always on" lol

A screenshot of the demo showing the lightbox open. There's a small gap on the right side where there probably should be the blue background of the lightbox

Works well! No jump of the background now. There is a gap on the right side of the foreground after the transition completes though

Might add scrollbar-gutter: stable to prevent the shift of the page when going to the lightbox view on Windows

Roblox. Or Minecraft

User-centered iteration My thoughts around how caring, iterating and not striving for perfection leads to great results.

The process of updating my website also inspired this blog post zachsaucier.com/blog/user-centered-iteration/

In this multi-part coding challenge, I demonstrate how to implement kinematics in Processing (Java). Code: https://thecodingtrain.com/challenges/64-kinematic... Coding Challenge #64.1: Forward Kinematics

It took me a few days to go from idea to implementation because it's pretty different than anything I had made before. @thecodingtrain.com 's videos on inverse kinematics were particularly helpful! youtube.com/watch?v=xXjRlEr7AGk

I particularly like the walking creature that I created using inverse kinematics. I played around with several approaches and settled on this one. I am still not 100% satisfied with the results, but it's good enough to be included

I made some improvements to my personal website. Check it out yourself! zachsaucier.com

Learn how to create this effect with pure CSS!! frontendmasters.com/blog/creating-an-angled-slider/

Hasn't this already been possible via APIs? Why rely on a UI interface for working with bots?

User-centered iteration My thoughts around how caring, iterating and not striving for perfection leads to great results.

Caring + iteration - perfection = a good output, created efficiently

I have all my music characterized by genre/vibe on Subsonic if there's a particular type of music you'd like recs for