Articles by Julian Shapiro
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Introducing Blast.js
After releasing Velocity.js, a highly performant web animation engine, I wanted to leverage that power for typographic manipulation. The question soon arose, How could I animate one letter, one word, or one sentence at a time without bloating my HTML with wrapper elements? If I could figure this out, I could create beautiful typographic animation […]
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Treat Open Source Like a Startup
What am I getting myself into? I was never an open source contributor. I had never even filed a GitHub issue. I considered myself an entrepreneur who simply happened to be technical. But when the startup I wanted to build needed something that didn’t exist, I followed an unprecedented whim and paused everything I was working […]