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Recent thoughts, learnings, and experiments.

CSSWeb Development

Scroll-Driven Animations, With Taste

Scroll-driven animations hit 85% browser support. The API is simple. The editorial discipline is hard. Here's the framework I use to decide what earns animation—with demos that let you feel where the line is.

May 13, 2026 · 9 min readRead →
CSSWeb Development

I Told You to Wait. CSS Anchor Positioning Is Here.

CSS Anchor Positioning hit Baseline in March 2026. Here's how to delete Floating UI, Popper.js, and Tippy.js from your bundle this week.

Apr 29, 2026 · 7 min readRead →
ReactNext.js

30 Days with the React Compiler: What I Stopped Memoizing

I spent 30 days with the React Compiler in production. Here's what memoization code I deleted, what performance actually improved, and whether it's worth the compile-time trade-off.

Apr 26, 2026 · 9 min readRead →
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Nick Paolini

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I'm Nick. I write here about what I'm learning.

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