It was 2020; bunch of my peers were hashing out crazy personal sites with bunch of cool animations and tricks. Naturally, I wanted to build my own stuff but web development wasn't my forte. Breaking it was.
I remember going through this repo and it didn't take long for me to realize this isn't for me lol. I tried to take a few apart and build something on top of them and that's where I came across GSAP plugins which enable these crazy animations.
Putting it short; the plugins I'm interested in were all paid but for some reason were available for free on CodePen. How? I needed to know. Turns out they've nicely obfuscated this crazy logic where DRM kicks in if you're not using it from CodePen and had a time-bomb locking you out if you were to use it out of context.
And you now obviously know what happened next if you've read so far :) Here's what I've ended up with:
TODO: I'll update this blog on how I did it; will strip out the logical aspects of it so I don't get DMCA'd later this month. See ya!
