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Scrubbing a Real Skeletal Animation With Scroll: The mixer.setTime() Trick

Scrubbing a Real Skeletal Animation With Scroll: The mixer.setTime() Trick

Most "3D on scroll" demos rotate a shape. A cube spins, a card tilts, a sphere orbits — all of it is one transform property tied to a scrol…

Building an @Mention Autocomplete: The Caret-Scanning Trick Behind Every Trigger Popup

Building an @Mention Autocomplete: The Caret-Scanning Trick Behind Every Trigger Popup

Type @ into a Slack message, a Linear comment, or a Notion doc and a little popup appears, filtered to whoever you're typing next. It feels like…

Building a Music Player Card: Why UI State Should Follow the & Element, Not Guess Ahead of It

Building a Music Player Card: Why UI State Should Follow the & Element, Not Guess Ahead of It

The naive version of a play button sets a playing variable to true the instant it's clicked, then updates the icon and the spinning vinyl to ma…

Building a Scroll-Hoisted Flag: Why clip-path Beats scaleX for Reveal Animations

Building a Scroll-Hoisted Flag: Why clip-path Beats scaleX for Reveal Animations

Every August a wave of Independence Day pages ships with the same animation: a flag that autoplays on load, waves for three seconds, and is finished …

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