Henry Huck

@henryhuck.bsky.social

Engineering team lead @mistralai.bsky.social, formerly SE @jitter.video. Girl dad 3x

DSLs are a bad idea because programmers are not good at designing programming languages. It’s like letting the nouveau riche spec their own mcmansion

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

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After 5 years in the making, I'm very happy to finally release Anime.js v4, my dream animation library: 🧩 New modular API ⚡️ Highly performant 🖱️ Scroll-linked animations 🫵 Draggables ↔️ Responsive ✨ Additive animations 🪽 WAAPI support And so much more! Check out the new website animejs.com!

Did you know? The "staff" in staff engineer actually comes from the wooden stick staff. Just like Gandalf, the staff engineer is a mythical being wielding his staff to make bugs disappear 🧙

Introducing: Infinite canvas 💫 Iterate faster, collaborate in real time, and scale your content across formats and languages with multiple artboards — all in one file. This is an entirely new way to animate. Available today. Try it now and learn more about today’s update 👉 jitter.video/changelog

If you're around and into motion design, you should definitely drop by! We're so lucky to have incredibly talented designers among our users, it's a great opportunity to meet cool people 🕶️ I'll also be there, event though I'm not as cool.

Jitter@jitter.video · 2y ago

Jitter’s 2-Year Anniversary Party 🥳 Join us in Paris on Feb 5 at 7:30 PM for an evening of food, drinks, fun, and a few surprises. Whether you’re a loyal user or new to Jitter, let’s celebrate together. Save your spot: lu.ma/lrmm106x