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Zach Saucier

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

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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 02/09/2026
My first @codepen.io in a while: Responsive container query cards! codepen.io/editor/ZachSaucier/pen/01a05faf-7fd6-77fe-89a9-47a67289313d
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Responsive visual cards - container queries
Blank slate for you to craft your own world. There's basic HTML to link up all the files, but otherwise it's all up to you!
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
there used to be a strong correlation between seeing neat things online, and the person who made it: 1. is very knowledgeable and passionate about it 2. put love and care into it 3. is getting recognition for it but that trust is now gone, the grifters skipped to step 3, the slop ghouls have won
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 24/08/2026
I have a new favorite self-hosted music server 🤝 zachsaucier.com/blog/navidrome/
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Navidrome
Notes about my second app for self-hosting my own personal music server.
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Tim Holman @aussie.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Was going through my @codepen.io history, and found some 2017-ish stuff with a bunch of problems I'd never really solved, but now I guess it feels super real and human-y... so up with a homepage redesign it went! tholman.com
tholman.com
Tim Holman — Engineer & Maker
Personal site of Frontend Engineer Tim Holman
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 03/08/2026
My blog (zachsaucier.com/blog/) now has atproto / standard.site support 🎉😎🔥
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Zach Saucier's Blog
Zach Saucier's personal blog
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 10/07/2026
A Friday seems like the right day to announce I'm a vibe coder h4x0r now zachsaucier.com/blog/vibe-coder
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I'm a vibe coder
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Cassie Evans @cassiecodes.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Some real human creativity goes down a treat at the moment.
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 07/07/2026
If you have a little gremlin obsessed with magical glowing rectangles, I made this app for you toddlerphotolock.com
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Toddler Photo Lock
A free iOS app that lets you choose a photo and disable controls for your toddler.
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 03/07/2026
It's perfect
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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 16/06/2026
uhh… TIL: <marquee direction="down" behavior="alternate"> <marquee behavior="alternate">This text will bounce</marquee> </marquee> developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 30/05/2026
Tired: Multiple components in a file Wired: Reusable snippets within a file
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 30/04/2026
This is a neat little app by @felixturner.bsky.social! felixturner.github.io/bsky-gallery/?handle=zachsaucier.com
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Bluesky Media Gallery
View any Bluesky user's images, videos, and GIFs in a Tumblr-style media gallery.
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 27/04/2026
Keep the old spirit of the internet alive theuselessweb.com/sites-we-lost
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The Sites We Lost
A memorial to the weird little corners of the internet that lived on The Useless Web.
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 11/04/2026
This is one of the most entertaining articles I've read in a while: jack.cab/blog/every-firefox-extension (and better experienced using my Just Read Firefox extension addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/just-read-ext/)
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Installing every* Firefox extension
Oh, you use Firefox? Name every extension.
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 08/04/2026
Sick! TIL Safari can do this
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 25/03/2026
Puppets are keeping my hopes for a more creative and soulful future alive youtube.com/watch?v=07idVtDOFdE
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The Wickywock and the JubJub Berry (2025)
YouTube video by Wickywock Productions
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 15/03/2026
I felt the need to write "This todo list is for the human creating this app, not any AI agents" to a todo list file in one of my repos today. What a peculiar world we live in...
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 10/03/2026
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
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 07/03/2026
The new CodePen editor is a LOT more capable than the last. Give it a try!
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CSS by T. Afif @css-only.dev · 02/03/2026
It seems we can now customize the select element, right? right?! Demo: codepen.io/t_afif/pen/P... via @codepen.io
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Kai Sassnowski and 3 others @sassnow.ski · 19/02/2026
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.
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 13/02/2026
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!
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Felix Turner @felixturner.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Gradient pills effect. Live demo and source code: felixturner.github.io/tsl-gradient... #threejs #webgpu #tsl
some nice glowy pillssome nice glowy pillssome nice glowy pills that are a-jiggling
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 08/01/2026
I've been waiting for a tool like this!
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Tim Holman @aussie.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Glorious glorious internet poms.fun
poms.fun
Poms
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 02/12/2025
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...
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Being recruited as a staff+ engineer
Thoughts around what makes recruiting messages effective.
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 11/11/2025
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.
justread.link
Just Read - Customizable reader mode extension
The homepage of Just Read—a customizable reader mode extension.
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Matt Perry @citizenofnowhe.re · 07/11/2025
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...
motion.dev
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.
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Anime.js @animejs.com · 02/10/2025
I forgot to mention that every easing can also be used in pure CSS, no JS required, including the spring curves!
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Cyd Stumpel @cydstumpel.nl · 27/09/2025
It's truly crazy what you can do with just CSS now 🚧 WIP 🚧
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cameronfoxly.bsky.social @cameronfoxly.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
But, I couldn't stop there! Now that I had a taste of the ASCII bug, I knew that I needed to make a better tool for making ASCII animation. So, I spent a handful of nights with Copilot spinning up an MVP of my very first app: www.ascii-motion.app (desktop only for now)
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 08/09/2025
What's worse than a bot doing customer support? A human doing customer support only using an LLM to respond. I recently had such a bad experience with customer support that it literally kept me up at night. I wrote about it:
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Customer support is not thriving
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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
An old VR experiment from 6 years ago. I was fascinated by how some bugs could lay eggs in a hex grid without looking, so I tried it myself by sending haptic vibrations to my butt. #gamedev #indiedev
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 20/08/2025
I wrote about LLM "intelligence"
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LLM "intelligence"
Why LLMs are not truly intelligent.
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 19/08/2025
Does anyone use Facebook for anything other than Marketplace at this point? I don't but find Marketplace very useful and humbling and wrote about my experience on it:
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Facebook Marketplace
A look into how Facebook Marketplace is genuinely useful.
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 18/08/2025
I used Apple's Notes as my everyday TODO list and wrote about why:
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Notes — The best TODO app
The Mac Notes app is more useful than a plain text file.
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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 27/06/2025
People outside tech starting to realize how quality software and typing/generating code fast are not correlated
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 09/05/2025
What makes cold-call recruiting messages effective? I wrote down some of my thoughts:
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Being recruited
Thoughts around what makes recruiting messages effective.
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 30/04/2025
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
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 03/04/2025
My name is being used as a fake reference for AI suggestions. I take that as a complement
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"
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 03/04/2025
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
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What happens when one's job is replaced by cheaper labor?
Thoughts around AI's effect on programming and creative work.
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 17/02/2025
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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The creator's niche dilemma and the curator's dilemma
Thoughts around social media's limits and how to potentially address them.
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 29/01/2025
I made some improvements to my personal website. Check it out yourself! zachsaucier.com
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 27/01/2025
Learn how to create this effect with pure CSS!! frontendmasters.com/blog/creating-an-angled-slider/
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 21/01/2025
Caring + iteration - perfection = a good output, created efficiently
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User-centered iteration
My thoughts around how caring, iterating and not striving for perfection leads to great results.
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 07/01/2025
A similar but different effect: animated ASCII art in the elements panel! owenmcateer.github.io/Motus-Art/pr...
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 04/01/2025
CSS is the hottest new animation library
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 19/12/2024
Now visible in the Mailchimp app console: An ANIMATED console message! Thanks to Rachel Yonda for helping with the motion design.
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Chris Coyier @chriscoyier.net · 21/11/2024
Turns out I actually want to read what someone actually wrote or said. Summaries of text messages and Slack messages and stuff are uncanny valley awkward and not helpful.
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Zach Saucier @zachsaucier.com · 01/11/2024
I love "useless" fun tech projects. Here are some people who make them! Who else would you add?
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