The View Transition API continues to be very good

At the start of this year, I set out to actually learn how to write shaders. I had tried this before. I had tried to read The Book of Shaders—multiple times. Each time, I got discouraged and dropped off. This time, I tried to learn by building. I ended up with a little library and want to share it.

This was so much fun to be a part of, and it’s finally live 🔥 (Deleted my original post because I thought this was only for code.tv subscribers, but seems like anyone can watch now!)

I wanna be less of a hater, so here are some of my favourite things on the internet at the moment (most of these I've learned through @sfpc-study.bsky.social or various are.na channels). Flight Simulator by Laurel Schwulst is an “ode to airplane mode”: laurelschwulst.com/e/flight-sim...

Visiting friends in New York

I've been leaning hard into the View Transitions API at work. This isn't, like, perfect, but I'm pretty impressed by what you can pull off with it.

Damn this HorizontalScrollView and I have a lot in common

The visuals at Floating Points show in Brooklyn last night were painted live and projected onto the wall behind him. This is a terrible picture but it was cool as hell.

Looks like my app has been updated and, while it is now in every way worse, it's also New and Different, which is what I demand as a consumer

Ben Day Spotlight

this site has two different styles of loading spinner and it’s driving me crazy

'lil WAAPI-powered infinite card flip animation codepen.io/andystewartd...

What should I do in Mexico City?

I've always been annoyed that, with the Web Animations API, there's no built-in way to know when an infinitely looping animation is finishing/starting an iteration. Turns out it's pretty easy to fake it using the `finished` promise that you get when you play an animation. codepen.io/andystewartd...

This is first time that I’ve written a shader and know, at a line-by-line basis, what the hell is happening. It's not even particularly complex, as shaders go, but it feels like progress.

I started this on a plane 6 months ago, forgot about it, and finished it on a plane last week. There's a lot more that I could do with it, and I may bang around on it occasionally going forward. I've found it useful on some recent projects, though, and wanted to publish it. www.colorpalett.es

I made a micro-library over the past few years for drag and drop, inspired by the instagram story editor. It's touch friendly and has accurate hit-boxes for transparent images. Try the demo here: maxbittker.github.io/draggablejs/

This elevator screen broke in a very cool way

Every time some big news event happens, someone chimes in about how they’ve noticed that said event is being used by others to confirm their priors. At some point, does that become its own form of confirmation bias? It’s a bias ouroboros.

Jabba the Cat

So leet. Much heat. @jason.energy

Bought a little macro pad to use as a controller for my coding experiments. It actually is meaningfully more fun than just using my keyboard 😅

When I was visiting my hometown over the holidays, I got to tour the reopened Capricorn Recording Studios. I was browsing through their old print pieces when I saw the logo for Paragon Agency (who promoted the Allman Brothers). I realized the type treatment would work pretty well with my name 😅

New Year’s Rave

Finally getting around to writing a post about one of my favorite details from the eBay Playbook homepage. Anything you're curious about?

Happy Holidays!

Safari: Intent to Ship in v18.2

Feels weird to say this isn't baseline because it’s not in iOS Safari. Of course it’s not!

Infinite Emojis™ infinite-emojis.vercel.app

eBay is cool again. Tell your friends.

Whoever decided that zero is falsy should be fired

Going into the weekend like 🎉

Finally figuring out the logic for this lil infinite grid class was very satisfying.

✅ Make an animation that gets tore down by @jhey.dev

Pretty happy with my little podcast search engine. One day, it will be a real podcast app.

Oh hey—I built that! Too bad the conversation got closed.

I'm getting more used Xcode, but it's wild to me that the default IDE a typed language wouldn't suggest the word false in this situation

Proud of my team! 🎉 Our eBay design system + brand team has been working on this collaboration for several years and I'm super excited it went public today. Check it out: playbook.ebay.com #DesignSystems

Okay but can ai code with one hand and pet its cat with the other?

Diggin' this nav bar on the @gothamist.bsky.social site

Okay I guess I see why people like Swift

Pluto, Blep Wizard of the Magical Oven Glove

cool they made a condiment for when you've completely given the fuck up

I like to be very clear with people

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🌓🌎🌞 <-- lunar eclipse 
🌎🌓🌞 <-- solar eclipse 
🌎🌞🌗 <-- apocalypse

richest nation on earth in all of human history

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