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Alvin Chang
Personal blog · bigcharts.substack.comdatadesign
Alvin Chang writes Big Charts, a personal blog at bigcharts.substack.com about data and design. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Behind the scene: This is a teenager”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post is a behind-the-scenes dev diary about how the Substack piece "This is a teenager" was developed. The commenter links it for readers interested in that process.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Behind-the-scenes of making data and visual stories, by Alvin Chang.
Most-linked posts?
- Behind the scene: This is a teenager3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-04-16
What Hacker News says?
Not to distract from the important content of this piece - which I simply can't devote any attention to in the middle of my workday, lest I ruminate for the next few hours - but for those interested in its development, here's a dev diary: https://bigcharts.substack.com/p/behind-the-scene-this-is-a-...
Comment linking /p/behind-the-scene-this-is-a-teenager
on “This is a teenager”Submitted Behind the scene: This is a teenager as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Behind the scenes: This is a teenager as a story · 1 points
HN discussion