This week
- This performance has been years in the making. In a sense, you could say it’s been a lifetime in the making. On November 6th, 2025, my brother Ian and I gave a “talk” at the amazing Beyond Tellerrand conference in […]...
about 2 months ago
- The same people behind Project Kamp also run a project called Precious Plastic which is an open source plastic recycling platform. As most are well aware, plastic is a major problem polluting our land, our beaches, our rivers, our oceans, and our balls. While Ocean Cleanup is...
2 months ago
- I stumbled onto Odd Artworks’ Random Mini Dungeon video series via the algorithm. He rolls against a dice table to generate a theme and requirements and starts drawing an isomorphic dungeon on a single sheet of paper. It’s almost like a Solo-RPG meets Inktober mashup activity....
- TLDR: I’ve shipped a new NPM module called gif2vid that enables video encoding of GIF files in the browser, in your terminal and in a web app backend. I’ve also created an uber simple website at https://gif2vid.com where you can use it. My kids enjoy building cute (and sometimes...
3 months ago
- The “linear()” timing function is a game-changer; it allows us to model physics-based motion right in vanilla CSS! That said, there are some limitations and quirks to be aware of. I’ve been experimenting with this API for a while now, and in this post, I’ll share all of the tips...
- Use agg with a huge font size to get high quality GIFs....
4 months ago
- CSS has been on fire lately, with tons of great new features. @starting-style is an interesting one; it allows us to use CSS transitions for enter animations, something previously reserved for CSS keyframe animations. But is the juice worth the squeeze?...
- A little while ago, I was trying to animate an element’s background color, so that it cycled through the rainbow. Seems easy, but it turns out, browsers have a surprisingly big limitation when it comes to color processing! In this tutorial, we’ll dig into the issue, and I’ll...
5 months ago
- In which a delightful rainbow of glass tiles are turned into mosaic magnets and a GLADOMOSAIK...
- Learn how to use Gemini 2.5 Flash for product image generation....
- SVG gives us many different primitives to work with, but by far the most powerful is the element. Unfortunately, it’s also the most inscrutable, with its compact Regex-style syntax. In this tutorial, we’ll demystify this infamous element and see some of the cool things we can do...
6 months ago
- The Core Insight Same rules apply: Must use same element ( ) Must have same number of commands Must have same command types in same order You're animating the arguments of each command How It Works Think of path commands as having "slots":......
- Core Principle Morph = animate attributes of the SAME element, not between different elements <rect width="50" ......
- Core Concepts Circumference What it is: The distance around the outside of a circle Formula: circumference = 2 × π × radius Example: Circle with r="6" → 2 × 3.14159 × 6 = 37.7px stroke-dasharray vs stroke-dashoffset dasharray = WHAT the pattern look......
- What is viewBox Animation? viewBox = your camera lens The circle is always at coordinate (50,50) with radius 20. The circle never moves. But when you animate viewBox, you're chan......
- Core Concepts Coordinate vs Display Size Coordinate size (viewBox): The "drawing paper" dimensions -> viewBox="0 0 100 100" Display size (width/height): How many pixels it takes on screen -> width="200px" Key insight: Shapes use viewBox coordinate......
- Transform Properties Traditional Chained Transforms .element { transform: translateY(10px) rotate(45deg) scale(1.2); transform-origin: center; /* or specific coordinates like 12px 7px */ } Individual Transform Properties .element { translate: ......
7 months ago
- Like cicadas emerging from the ground, design industry conversations about quality seem to periodically erupt on social media. Also like cicadas, these articles are as predicable as they are irritating. I can’t count the amount of Medium thinkpieces I’ve seen come and go where...
- I was using Discord the other day. I tapped to zoom into an image, and it animated in an odd way that I'd seen before. Like this: { const currentScript = document.currentScript; const demoContainer = currentScript.previousElementSibling; const buttonsContainer =...
- CSS Keyframe animations are so much more powerful than most developers realize. In this tutorial, I’ll show you something that completely blew my mind, a technique that makes our keyframe animations so much more reusable and dynamic! 🤯...
- Hel is a distorted Swiss variable font with three axes...
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