Zach Saucier

The art section on every color page got better! Switch to palettes: each picture becomes the colors extracted from it... Plus: hide the title, let the rows drift, filter by art, pop culture or wiki, and copy any picture's colors with their names. names.color.pizza/color/berry-...

npm install bouffont ➜ meodai.github.io/bouffont/

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

I have a new favorite self-hosted music server 🤝 zachsaucier.com/blog/navidrome/

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

A Friday seems like the right day to announce I'm a vibe coder h4x0r now zachsaucier.com/blog/vibe-coder

Some real human creativity goes down a treat at the moment.

If you have a little gremlin obsessed with magical glowing rectangles, I made this app for you toddlerphotolock.com

It's perfect

uhh… TIL: <marquee direction="down" behavior="alternate"> <marquee behavior="alternate">This text will bounce</marquee> </marquee> developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

Tired: Multiple components in a file Wired: Reusable snippets within a file

This is a neat little app by @felixturner.bsky.social! felixturner.github.io/bsky-gallery/?handle=zachsaucier.com

Keep the old spirit of the internet alive theuselessweb.com/sites-we-lost

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/)

Sick! TIL Safari can do this

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...

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

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

It seems we can now customize the select element, right? right?! Demo: codepen.io/t_afif/pen/P... via @codepen.io

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.

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!

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

I've been waiting for a tool like this!

Glorious glorious internet poms.fun

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...

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.

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...

I forgot to mention that every easing can also be used in pure CSS, no JS required, including the spring curves!

It's truly crazy what you can do with just CSS now 🚧 WIP 🚧

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)

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:

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

I wrote about LLM "intelligence"

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:

I used Apple's Notes as my everyday TODO list and wrote about why:

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

What makes cold-call recruiting messages effective? I wrote down some of my thoughts:

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

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

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?