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Gerald Nako

@geraldnako

Creative Front-End Developer

 Albania
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Joined July 2015
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Cheng Lou
@_chenglouMar 28
My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow
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GSAP
@greensock30 Apr 2025
🥳 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!
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Three.js
@threejs29 May 2024
As part of the transition to @WebGPU we have been working on a new shading language that is able to generate GLSL and WGSL on the fly. Here's the first draft of the spec: github.com/mrdoob/three.js/w…
Three.js Shading Language

Three.js Shading Language

JavaScript 3D Library. Contribute to mrdoob/three.js development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Going beyond pixels and (r)ems in CSS - Relative length units based on font

There are a lot of CSS units available at the moment and we mostly still rely on pixels and (r)ems for our sizing and fonts. I say it’s time to do a little freshening up. Instead of writing a list of...

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Solved by CSS Scroll-Driven Animations: detect if an element can scroll or not. “Leverage Scroll-Driven Animations + a Space Toggle or State Query to selectively style an element based on it being scrollable or not.” 🔗 brm.us/css-scroll-detection 🏷️ #CSS #ScrollDrivenAnimations
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Wes Bos
@wesbos22 Aug 2023
🔥 JavaScript Tag Loading Visualized
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Jesper Vos
@jesper_vos29 May 2023
<meta name="theme-color" content="lightblue" media="(max-width: 768px)" /> <meta name="theme-color" content="darkblue" media="(min-width: 768px)" />
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What's new in CSS and UI: I/O 2023 Edition developer.chrome.com/blog/wh…
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GSAP
@greensock17 Aug 2022
🥳 It's release day at GSAP towers and boy oh boy have we got a goodun for you. Crafting responsive, accessible animation can be tangly & time consuming right? Not anymore. Introducing matchMedia - ✍️ release post greensock.com/3-11 📽 full video youtube.com/watch?v=9gipsKpW…
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Addy Osmani
@addyosmani4 Jun 2022
What the new Shared Element Transitions API proposal enables is 😍. Learn more from @jaffathecake's great talk: bit.ly/set-yt, a guide: bit.ly/set-g or codelab with @nextjs: bit.ly/set-next

Shared Element Transitions

Shared Element Transitions is a proposal for a new API that allows a set of transition animations in SPAs and eventually MPAs. Demo from the video is: https://sleekwp.dev/fun/page-transition

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Bringing page transitions to the web youtu.be/JCJUPJ_zDQ4 via @YouTube
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My biggest 5 coding mistakes as a Creative Developer during my career. A thread going through specific nitty-gritty of some code that I had implemented wrongly in some of my previous projects. 🧵
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GSAP
@greensock31 Mar 2022
🥳 It's here! GSAP 3.10 Packed with ScrollTrigger enhancements, and a brand new plugin for Club GreenSock members. Introducing ScrollSmoother! 📑 greensock.com/3-10 📺 youtu.be/_-_JCocqNbw
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Performance tip: do you know about `overflow: clip`? It is a modern alternative to `overflow: hidden` with better performance
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Perf tip: avoid chained async tasks Parallelize with Promise.all wherever possible
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‘Depositphotos Creative Trends 2022: Merging the future and the past’ by C R E VV

‘Depositphotos Creative Trends 2022: Merging the future and the past’ by C R E VV

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Lee Robinson
@leerob30 Nov 2021
When there's competition in DevTools, developers win: ◆ Svelte is pushing React ◆ Remix is pushing Next.js ◆ Prisma is pushing ORMs ◆ Deno is pushing Node.js ◆ Supabase is pushing Firebase ◆ esbuild / SWC are pushing JS tooling ◆ Bun is pushing SWC What else?
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The start of a new era for Responsive Web Design by @fbrill in @uxdesigncc uxdesign.cc/the-start-of-a-n…
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Addy Osmani
@addyosmani11 Oct 2021
Tip: @ChromeDevTools has a CSS Shadow Editor!
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