Zach Saucier
@zachsaucier.com
I'm a product, design, and animation minded engineer.
zachsaucier.com
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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!
February 13, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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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Gradient pills effect. Live demo and source code: felixturner.github.io/tsl-gradient... #threejs #webgpu #tsl
January 16, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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!
Built a palette extractor that thinks like a curator, not a pixel counter.
– Physics-based color repulsion
– Auto-detects muted vs vibrant bias
– Adaptive spacing to hit target count
– OKLCh color space (perceptually uniform)
Early Access: please break it!
chipper-otter-d6c600.netlify.app
– Physics-based color repulsion
– Auto-detects muted vs vibrant bias
– Adaptive spacing to hit target count
– OKLCh color space (perceptually uniform)
Early Access: please break it!
chipper-otter-d6c600.netlify.app
January 8, 2026 at 8:08 PM
I've been waiting for a tool like this!
Reposted by Zach Saucier
Glorious glorious internet poms.fun
Poms
poms.fun
January 8, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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...
Being recruited as a staff+ engineer
Thoughts around what makes recruiting messages effective.
zachsaucier.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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.
Just Read - Customizable reader mode extension
The homepage of Just Read—a customizable reader mode extension.
justread.link
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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.
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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...
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...
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.
motion.dev
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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...
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...
Reposted by Zach Saucier
I forgot to mention that every easing can also be used in pure CSS, no JS required, including the spring curves!
October 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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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It's truly crazy what you can do with just CSS now
🚧 WIP 🚧
🚧 WIP 🚧
September 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It's truly crazy what you can do with just CSS now
🚧 WIP 🚧
🚧 WIP 🚧
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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)
September 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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:
I recently had such a bad experience with customer support that it literally kept me up at night. I wrote about it:
Customer support is not thriving
zachsaucier.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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:
I recently had such a bad experience with customer support that it literally kept me up at night. I wrote about it:
I wrote about LLM "intelligence"
LLM "intelligence"
Why LLMs are not truly intelligent.
zachsaucier.com
August 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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:
Facebook Marketplace
A look into how Facebook Marketplace is genuinely useful.
zachsaucier.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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:
Notes — The best TODO app
The Mac Notes app is more useful than a plain text file.
zachsaucier.com
August 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I used Apple's Notes as my everyday TODO list and wrote about why:
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People outside tech starting to realize how quality software and typing/generating code fast are not correlated
June 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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:
I wrote down some of my thoughts:
Being recruited
Thoughts around what makes recruiting messages effective.
zachsaucier.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
What makes cold-call recruiting messages effective?
I wrote down some of my thoughts:
I wrote down some of my thoughts:
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
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!
gsap.com/blog/3-13
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!
gsap.com/blog/3-13
April 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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
This is great news for the web and for GSAP
My name is being used as a fake reference for AI suggestions. I take that as a complement
April 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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
zachsaucier.com/blog/cheaper-labor
What happens when one's job is replaced by cheaper labor?
Thoughts around AI's effect on programming and creative work.
zachsaucier.com
April 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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
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?
Would you use a site like this?
The creator's niche dilemma and the curator's dilemma
Thoughts around social media's limits and how to potentially address them.
zachsaucier.com
February 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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?
Would you use a site like this?
I made some improvements to my personal website. Check it out yourself! zachsaucier.com
January 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I made some improvements to my personal website. Check it out yourself! zachsaucier.com
Learn how to create this effect with pure CSS!! frontendmasters.com/blog/creating-an-angled-slider/
January 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Learn how to create this effect with pure CSS!! frontendmasters.com/blog/creating-an-angled-slider/
Caring + iteration - perfection = a good output, created efficiently
User-centered iteration
My thoughts around how caring, iterating and not striving for perfection leads to great results.
zachsaucier.com
January 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Caring + iteration - perfection = a good output, created efficiently
A similar but different effect: animated ASCII art in the elements panel! owenmcateer.github.io/Motus-Art/pr...
January 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
A similar but different effect: animated ASCII art in the elements panel! owenmcateer.github.io/Motus-Art/pr...