Weeknotes 25:43

Posted 21 hours ago

Week of October 19–25

  • I got stumped by an issue on Monday. Our site uses Glide to power our carousels. The layout of a carousel on a specific page was off. It was worse when you resized the browser. It seemed like the issue was related to some inline styles that I saw in the code. But I could not figure out where it was coming from. It was not in the page template. It was not until I was talking to my team leader that I figured out out the code was coming from a “plugin” (Django CMS equivalent of a WordPress block). Plugin code will override the content in the template (because the template has a conditional that makes that happen). It looked like someone had copied code where Glide was applying those inline styles and pasted into the plugin. Once I cleaned up the code, it fixed the layout problem. I am still getting tripped up on where things come from in Django CMS.
  • I was frustrated by the lack of text formatting tools in Thinkific. Thinkific is a course platform that we are using for an online ministry training course at the beginning of next year. I had been tasked to clean up the course introduction page. I also did not like that you could not make adjustments to the hero image. The height of the hero had a maximum set and the image would scale for larger screens. I had incorporated some text in the image and had to rethink it based on the limitations of the platform.
  • It felt like a very unproductive week. My load has been a little lighter recently as I am waiting for some big things to come down the pike. I felt very tired this week and unmotivated. I believe some of it was tied to allergies and the weather. I had several low energy days where it was hard to get going. I had wanted to use my margin to watch videos in the Unleash the power of Scroll-Driven Animations course. But I had trouble staying awake. I am hoping I have more energy next week.
  • I decided to play around more with scroll animations and to see if I could replicate something I had built using GSAP last year. It was a simple use case of making content scale up and back down on scroll. I was able to replicate the animations with CSS. But then I decided to apply what I had learned from Cyd Stumpel’s article, Two approaches to fallback CSS scroll driven animations. I decided to add the GSAP script back into the solution as a fallback for browsers that don’t yet support CSS scroll-driven animations (looking at you Firefox). You can see my work on Codepen.

Cyd Stumpel

@cydstumpel.nl

Some people are so inexplicably triggered by any scroll animation, it feels like a knee jerk reaction tbh. I’m not talking about people who prefer reduced motion, I’m talking about people who reply to all new native css scroll animation news with; “I don’t know any reason why you should do that” ?

Jeff Bridgforth

@jeffbridgforth.com

Another reason why it would be a good idea to put in controls that allow the user to turn off the scroll animations if they prefer. Motion is definitely something that we need to allow users to opt out of.

Cyd Stumpel

@cydstumpel.nl

For sure, always add prefers reduced motion alternatives!

Caught my eye

Lando Norris site – I could tell that this site was using GSAP as soon as I started scrolling. It made me wonder if there is a way to do “pinning” similar to GSAP with CSS scroll-driven animations. I did a little bit of research and it does look like there are some ways to do it using position:sticky and view() timelines. I am hoping to prototype something next week.

This Lando Norris website is insane I dove into the code and broke it all down. Some really neat 3D effects along with scrolling and next level animations Full video ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzL6…

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— Wes Bos (@wesbos.com) October 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM

What I wrote

Október 23 – My personal reflections on October 23, Republic Day celebrated in Hungary. Including some pictures from different trips I have taken to Budapest.

Articles I read

What I watched

What I listened to

Books I am reading

Walking

  • Sunday – 4.1 miles in 1 hour and 18 minutes
  • Tuesday – 3.06 in 58 minutes
  • Saturday – 4.24 miles in 1 hour and 18 minutes

What I played

MLB The Show 20 (Twins) – I went 1-2 dropping a two game series to the WhiteSox.

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