An Ode To Side Project Time

There seemed to be a hot minute when the tech industry understood the value of idle tinkering and made a point of providing ‘side project time’ as an explicit working perk. The concept endures — I’m lucky enough to work somewhere that has it — but it seems to have been outpaced in recent years…

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The Role Of Illustration Style In Visual Storytelling

Illustration has been used for 10,000 years. One of the first ever recorded drawings was of a hand silhouette found in Spain, that is more than 66,000 years old. Fast forward to the introduction of the internet, around 1997, illustration has gradually increased in use. Popular examples of this are Google’s daily doodles and the…

Lesser Known Uses Of Better Known Attributes

The list of attributes available in HTML is long and well-documented. Even if you haven’t memorized them (and there’s totally nothing wrong with an author… er… random person off the street, who has), there are a bunch of places where HTML attributes you’re familiar with will have different or more specific jobs. Let’s take a…

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Build a “button-to-modal” animation with GSAP

In this new tutorial, we’ll continue working with GSAP and learn how to create an easy-to-follow, attractive, button-to-modal animation. This type of animation is ideal for toggling modal forms. Without more intro, let’s explore the final result! 1. Begin with the page markup Inside a wrapper, we’ll place the modal trigger and an empty element….

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What Does AI Really Mean?

In 2024, Artificial Intelligence (AI) hit the limelight with major advancements. The problem with reaching common knowledge and so much public attention so quickly is that the term becomes ambiguous. While we all have an approximation of what it means to “use AI” in something, it’s not widely understood what infrastructure having AI in your…