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Paul Bakaus

paulbakaus.com

Building AI tools. Writing about code, creativity, and the creator economy. A tech exec who still ships.

AI / MLTech news / industryFrontend / CSS / browsers

Posts
43 from 9 Jan 2013 to 22 Sep 2026
Posting
now and then (5 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 4

  1. I gave my website a boss fight
  2. Read the writing
  3. Impeccable by Design
  4. Carving Shaders Out of Claude Code

2025 3

  1. The Curse of 'Cursor for X'
  2. Why certain creators have fans and others don't
  3. Vibe Editing

2023 3

  1. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
  2. AI-generated video is coming - but not all made equal
  3. Generative AI's most interesting bottleneck: Humans

2022 9

  1. Frames per second, or: The Illusion of Motion
  2. The era of the side hustle?
  3. Why are your followers are following you?
  4. Creators need to be consistent all the way
  5. Creator businesses
  6. The super power of fan acquisition
  7. 5 apps to auto-reframe / smart crop horizontal to vertical video
  8. Key to creator success? Cheap experimentation
  9. Leaving Google

2021 7

  1. Influencer businesses stake their success on their personal brand - that's a big risk
  2. How to extract gifs, images & more from Google Slides decks
  3. You don't need to wait for Web3 to put creators in control of their destiny
  4. New podcast ep discussing the content web & creator economy
  5. The three freedoms of the web
  6. Maybe everything is changing, all the time
  7. Does the web have product-market fit?

2020 1

  1. Gifs must die

2019 2

  1. Create more, destroy less
  2. Multiline truncated text with "show more" button (with just CSS)

2018 1

  1. Learning to unlearn

2017 2

  1. The Illusion of Speed
  2. Block formatting contexts and lists

2016 1

  1. Auto-growing list w/ Flexbox

2015 2

  1. When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and nobody cared.
  2. 5 reasons for 60 fps

2014 4

  1. Frame Rate as creative choice
  2. The web is built to last
  3. Bigger is not better
  4. The web needs a new Yahoo

2013 2

  1. Why are you coding?
  2. What's left in making movie projections a lifelike illusion?

Undated 2

  1. Read the mission
  2. All projects