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Zach Saucier

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I'm a product, design, and animation minded engineer. zachsaucier.com

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I just read the following in a company's next year planning:

"For customers, this means that they can leverage [the platform] in an infinitely flexible, hyper-personalized, trust-building visual-explanation-oriented experience."

AI slop is everywhere

10.03.2026 18:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's interesting that Sanity's main point is "yeah but what about when you have the same content across multiple pages". That's easily fixable by putting that chunk of content inside its own component...

10.03.2026 13:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The new CodePen editor is a LOT more capable than the last. Give it a try!

07.03.2026 01:58 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I really wish this covered how they're implementing this pattern because I can imagine a few ways and they each have downsides. Are you interested in making one of your videos?? πŸ™‚

06.03.2026 15:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Nearest #BADA55 color picker Finds the nearest leetspeak color name based on the inputted color using either the most popular #BADA55 colors or all of them. Data pulled from http:...

This reminded me of an old pen I made: color -> nearest 1337 color codepen.io/ZachSaucier/pen/vKwVmb

04.03.2026 15:51 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It seems we can now customize the select element, right? right?!

Demo: codepen.io/t_afif/pen/P... via @codepen.io

02.03.2026 13:44 πŸ‘ 375 πŸ” 84 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 13

It depends on the purpose of the site and how much you are linking internally vs externally. On my blog I do this because I think it's very helpful in letting users stay on the blog if they want to. On a product website I'd probably never do this

26.02.2026 20:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@yuanchuan.dev

25.02.2026 14:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

TIL it's pronounced "veet"

21.02.2026 19:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Our culture is all about metrics and optimization so it makes sense that you're made to feel that way. I'm happy to chat more about this but it'd be better over a beer or two, hah

21.02.2026 18:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Part of the magic of people building stuff pre-AI for me was that no matter how silly the project, someone actually had to think about it and spend their own time building it. "Claude spit this out in 3 minutes" really doesn't hit the same.

19.02.2026 07:04 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I love to see websites that execute the ideas for my personal website that I never found the time to make. Well done, @kristemmerman.bsky.social!

13.02.2026 14:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

At this point if I see a .toys domain I assume you built it

03.02.2026 16:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Time to modify it to look more legit and add it to your game

29.01.2026 20:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks, Zi!

24.01.2026 02:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Clearly πŸ™‚

23.01.2026 21:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In general if you write more than 5 sentences then it should be apparent if you used LLMs or not

23.01.2026 21:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'd be interested in learning more in order to recreate the effect using web tech

23.01.2026 18:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

> static aws bucket (lol)
i feel attacked

20.01.2026 21:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"help / helper text" or "caption" are probably the two names I have heard most

20.01.2026 15:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
some nice glowy pills

some nice glowy pills

some nice glowy pills

some nice glowy pills

some nice glowy pills that are a-jiggling

some nice glowy pills that are a-jiggling

Gradient pills effect. Live demo and source code: felixturner.github.io/tsl-gradient... #threejs #webgpu #tsl

16.01.2026 00:33 πŸ‘ 60 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

I've been waiting for a tool like this!

08.01.2026 20:08 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Poms

Glorious glorious internet poms.fun

08.01.2026 00:38 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Really cool!

07.01.2026 03:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Being recruited as a staff+ engineer Thoughts around what makes recruiting messages effective.

I never thought I'd have to tell recruiters "you should put the name of the company, a link to the company’s website, and a job posting in the message!" but here we are...

02.12.2025 13:53 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Just Read - Customizable reader mode extension The homepage of Just Readβ€”a customizable reader mode extension.

I've been working on the same side project for over 10 years now. It's had more than 230k weekly users for the last 6 of those years! I'm so glad I've been able to help so many people, from the average Joe to those with more special needs.

11.11.2025 14:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I see. I'm curious to hear about other use cases. If that's the main one I'd imagine a property for that use would make more sense. I kinda worry about the accessibility of a generic animation property

11.11.2025 02:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What's the thinking behind the animation property?

11.11.2025 00:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Web Animation Performance Tier List - Motion Blog Learn what makes web animations fast, slow, and everything in between with our 2025 web animation performance tier list.

Hello, here's a brain dump of everything I know about animation performance.

Animating layout isn't always bad. Global CSS variables are a performance killer. Hardware accelerated blurs can crash sites.

Surprised? Those and more in this post: motion.dev/blog/web-ani...

07.11.2025 12:55 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Can you please make the vibe king a short so I can share it with my manager

24.10.2025 17:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0