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Comment by gkoberger | Hacker News Reader

Hey all, I built this last night as a resource for connecting Mozilla Alumni during this rough time. Mozilla laid off some truly amazing people this past year.... many of whom I worked with 10 years ago when I was there.

As for why there's a red panda in the boat... despite the logo distinctly picturing a fox on fire, a "firefox" is actually the name for a red panda!

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The animated boat is immensely cute. I have a lot of respect that you cooked this up in one night, it humbles me.

Props to even come up with the idea.

Between us, 80% of the reason I started this was a cute little red panda in a boat seemed fun to draw!

You must be the one who built Pawnee’s website too

https://vimeo.com/114550141

I really like the boat/panda; how did you create that SVG? Source code says it was generated by Sketchapp, which I am not too familiar with.

Overall great job, its super slick.

Hey! The initial SVG was made in Sketch (looks like this: https://p195.p4.n0.cdn.getcloudapp.com/items/OAuqBqvx/boat.s...), and I animated it with CSS.

Normally, I'd use a combo of Sketch (for making the assets) and GSAP (for animating)!

Wonderful job. Great illusion of depth with just SVG and CSS. Reminds me a bit of Wind Waker.

I second that. Great job!

Thanks for making this, I had the horrifying idea that Mozilla had their engineers make this prior to the layoffs.

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