Zach Saucier
@ZachSaucier
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I'm a product, design, and animation minded engineer. I love leading small teams in building useful products. https://t.co/i3cMxzAP09
New York, NY
Joined February 2014
I was laid off from @stripe in November, started looking for senior front-end web developer jobs immediately, and accepted a full-time position in April. Here's a 🧵 with some stats about my experience:.
I was a part of the @stripe 14% layoffs last week. If you'd like to work with me, please DM me!. Here’s a of some of my favorite animations I contributed to during my time at Stripe (videos in thread):
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RT @xhfloz: is your refuge from dead internet theory. There aren't any bots or content farms around—just real peopl….
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What makes cold-call recruiting messages effective?. I wrote down some of my thoughts:
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Thoughts around what makes recruiting messages effective.
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This one makes use of some of GSAP's strengths: staggering (including 2D!) and timescaling.
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Here's some demos I made to illustrate some of the formerly-paid plugin functionality that's now free. This uses the ScrambleText plugin.
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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.
🥳 It's an exciting day! 🥳. Thanks to @Webflow GSAP is now 100% FREE - including ALL of the bonus plugins like SplitText, MorphSVG, and all the others that were exclusively available to Club GSAP members. We can't wait to see what you make!
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My name is being used as a fake reference for AI suggestions. I take that as a complement.
@ZachSaucier 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 it more. It said the author was none other than Zach Saucier, so I clicked it and it turned out it was a hallucination ðŸ˜.
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What happens when one's occupation is replaced by AI? I wrote up some of my thoughts on the subject.
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Thoughts around AI's effect on programming and creative work.
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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?.
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Thoughts around social media's limits and how to potentially address them.
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@thecodingtrain The process of updating my website also inspired this blog post
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My thoughts around how caring, iterating and not striving for perfection leads to great results.
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It took me a few days to go from idea to implementation because it's pretty different than anything I had made before. @thecodingtrain's videos on inverse kinematics were particularly helpful!
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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
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I made some improvements to my personal website. Check it out yourself!
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Caring + iteration - perfection = a good output, created efficiently
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My thoughts around how caring, iterating and not striving for perfection leads to great results.
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RT @motus_art: Genuary 07: "Use software that is not intended to create art or images.". I'm using the non-visual DOM to render an animatio….
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If you want to learn more about this technique, I wrote a whole article on the subject!
I discovered that animations can be put INSIDE the developer tools console! I hope that this article inspires many more people to add delight to their websites in this way. Read more:
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Now visible in the Mailchimp app console: An ANIMATED console message! Thanks for all of your help with the motion design, @rachelyonda!
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RT @pushmatrix: Every time a sale is made on @Shopify this Black Friday weekend, it shows up on this 3D globe. It runs at 120fps in the we….
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RT @xhfloz: After 4 yrs of work: 1.0 is live!. Dead simple, drag-&-drop websites. Add text, images, shapes, GIFs, v….
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