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Zach Saucier's thoughts

  • Starting HTML and CSS

    Part 2 of my front-end development crash course.

    Starting HTML and CSS

    Welcome to my series on learning web development! I created this crash course series to help teach a group of mostly designers at my school about web development, especially on the front-end. This is the second lesson, the first that involves programming. You can check out the first post here.

    If you want to follow around messing with code on your own, sites like CodePen are great for tinkering.

  • The why and what behind web development

    Part 1 of my front-end development crash course.

    Welcome to my series on learning web development! I created this crash course series to help teach a group of mostly designers at my school about web development, especially on the front-end. This week we were displaced from our usual area and had to meet in a restaurant nearby instead so we don’t have any video and the audio quality isn’t great. Regardless, I hope you enjoy this post!

    Regardless of what you do professionally or are studying, the two main things that I want you to get from this whole course is a better understanding of what it means to program and what is possible using code (but specifically using web technology with an emphasis on the front-end).

  • Personal studies

    Why personal studies?

    As humans, we want people to perceive us in the best possible way. With modern tools, particularly social media, we allow others to view small preapproved glimpses of our lives. This is the way things should be – we should have control and security over the things we post. But, like everything that affects our lives, there are consequences we don’t necessarily see when the change first occurs.

    Increasingly people focus on getting the right combination of imagery and words to present a glimpse of an experience to others rather than enjoying the full experience for themselves.

  • How to create asset loading effects

    Just show me the demo View this project on GitHub

    Today I will demonstrate how to show the loading of large image and video assets and reveal those assets using custom animations once they are finished loading.

    In order to show the asset loading process, we will have to make XHR requests for them instead of loading them the conventional way. I will also be using ProgressBar.js to make creating and animating the loaders easier.

  • The ultimate wearable

    It’s obvious: we want to enhance the way we interact with the world. Everything from virtual reality to smart watches show this trend. This isn’t a new desire, of course, but we are now on the verge of making new ways of interaction possible.

    Today I’ll focus on what I’m most excited about in this new world that is soon to come: the ever growing internet of things and our interaction with it through wearable technology. Both seek to expand our human umwelt, allowing for new and better interactions with the world that surrounds us.