Episode I

Dotify Glimpse

This was designed to be a Front-End Showoff. I have been wanting to dive deeper into CSS animations for quite some time, and I figured this project was a good opportunity to do so.

I'm a mechanical engineer that has shifted carreers towards software development, and since 2020, also software engineering. The stuff I studied the most before actually getting a job in the industry was front-end development, specially CSS.

When I started working as a software developer I had close to none real back-end experience. I knew a bit of web development, but just enough to get past the problem sets presented by the courses I took. I was lucky to work with very experienced and seasoned developers and engineers. Some of them took me under their wing and I learned a lot from those experiences.

However, there was one thing I could do from the first day in the job that they couldn't do. They could not code proper CSS and HTML. Not for their lives. Then I realized I actually had the talent for coding everything the designers threw at me during the development of the products we were involved in.

Since then, I became the front-end specialist in the team. Regarded as a specialist, I have to admit I felt ashamed of not understanding CSS animations at a deeper level. That is were this project comes in. This is a Spotify clone, with a few touches of interesting bits I encountered during my days as a software developer.

I wanted to mix stuff commonly present in applications development with animations, which are often left aside because of the extra time needed to implement them. I hope you enjoy seeing and reading this.

I have not implemented responsiveness for this project. Please view this page with a device that has minimum of 1200px screen width.