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Bryan Braun - Frontend Developer

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Bryan Braun - Frontend Developer is a personal blog at bryanbraun.com about web and design. Since 2013, 66 different Hacker News readers have linked it 102 times, most often “Checkboxland”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.

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102mentions?
66HN people?
2013–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 23 in 2021

Making things and sharing what I learn.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Checkboxland
    13 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2020-04-04
  2. Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS
    11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2017-05-27
  3. Visualizing the number of weeks in your Life
    4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-10-23
  4. Flying Toasters
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-04-12
  5. ES modules in production: my experience so far
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-10-23
  6. I keep making things out of checkboxes
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-10-03
  7. Let's Get Creative
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-10-11
  8. Lifespan Visualized
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-07
  9. Daily Demos: a ritual for raising kids that create
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-16
  10. SolidGoldMagikarp
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-30

What Hacker News says?

  1. renegat0x0 · 2024-06-26
    There are more people with checkbox passion https://www.bryanbraun.com/2021/09/21/i-keep-making-things-o...

    Comment linking /2021/09/21/i-keep-making-things-out-of-checkboxes/

    on “One Million Checkboxes”
  2. bryanbraun · 2022-07-16

    Submitted Scratch is a big deal as a story · 1017 points

    HN discussion
  3. _jstreet · 2021-10-11
    The sidebar of checkboxland[1] has a checkbox made out of checkboxes. [1]: https://www.bryanbraun.com/checkboxland/

    Comment linking /checkboxland/

    on “I keep making things out of checkboxes”
  4. bryanbraun · 2024-10-25

    Submitted Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted as a story · 936 points

    HN discussion
  5. colejohnson66 · 2021-10-11
    Consay’s Game of Life is Turing Complete. Could use Golly’s engine and render using checkboxes. Has anyone implemented MMIX in CGOL? https://www.bryanbraun.com/checkboxland/docs/demos/game-of-l...

    Comment linking /checkboxland/docs/demos/game-of-life/

    on “I keep making things out of checkboxes”
  6. vortex_ape · 2021-10-11

    Submitted I keep making things out of checkboxes as a story · 725 points

    HN discussion
  7. oli-g · 2021-10-11
    Alternatively, it's also already hosted online: https://www.bryanbraun.com/checkboxland/docs/demos/game-of-l...

    Comment linking /checkboxland/docs/demos/game-of-life/

    on “I keep making things out of checkboxes”
  8. 256DEV · 2021-07-30

    Submitted Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS as a story · 461 points

    HN discussion
  9. bscphil · 2021-10-11
    Unless I missed them, a bunch of the demos aren't linked directly in the page. Here's Bad Apple: https://www.bryanbraun.com/checkboxland/docs/demos/bad-apple...

    Comment linking /checkboxland/docs/demos/bad-apple/

    on “I keep making things out of checkboxes”
  10. thunderbong · 2021-09-11

    Submitted Checkboxland as a story · 284 points

    HN discussion
  11. strken · 2021-10-11
    Funnily enough, he's already done it: https://www.bryanbraun.com/checkboxland/

    Comment linking /checkboxland/

    on “I keep making things out of checkboxes”
  12. bryanbraun · 2021-09-09

    Submitted Show HN: A webcam made out of HTML checkboxes as a story · 202 points

    HN discussion
  13. auroranil · 2021-05-08
    Interesting. It is using iframes behind the scenes. According to W3C it should limit the recursion depth to one, but it seems that you can get around that. Relevant: https://www.bryanbraun.com/2021/03/24/infinitely-nested-ifra...

    Comment linking /2021/03/24/infinitely-nested-iframes/

    on “Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using React”
  14. surprisetalk · 2024-02-29

    Submitted I keep making things out of checkboxes (2021) as a story · 195 points

    HN discussion
  15. 0wis · 2019-07-21
    Good laugh and a good summary of FT branding ! Any other ideas to create fun easter eggs ? First lazy search for a good starter : https://www.bryanbraun.com/2018/04/01/several-ways-to-hide-e...

    Comment linking /2018/04/01/several-ways-to-hide-easter-eggs-on-your-website/

    on “Why wasn't this page found?”
  16. thunderbong · 2021-10-09

    Submitted After Dark (90's screensavers) in CSS as a story · 119 points

    HN discussion
  17. rasz · 2021-07-30
    On one hand super cool due to tricks employed, on the other CSS animations tend to be very power hungry https://www.bryanbraun.com/after-dark-css/all/rainstorm.html takes <40% of idle low range gaming GPU = nothing, but 30% of one gaming 4GHz CPU thread, what is going on there? Chrome GPU process jumps between 20 an 40% while sliding 6 bitmaps around, something you could even do on a Virge in 1996. Some time ago I n…

    Comment linking /after-dark-css/all/rainstorm.html

    on “Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS”
  18. bryanbraun · 2014-03-16

    Submitted How I rebuilt "Flying Toasters" using only CSS animations as a story · 106 points

    HN discussion
  19. shagie · 2022-06-14
    https://www.bryanbraun.com/after-dark-css/ ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28006679 )

    Comment linking /after-dark-css/

    on “Clarus returns home in macOS Ventura”
  20. porker · 2013-11-12

    Submitted If Gmail were built with Drupal as a story · 87 points

    HN discussion
  21. bryanbraun · 2014-04-04
    This kind of stuff is really cool. I've been working on something similar, execept it's integrated with Github pages. More info here if anybody's interested: http://www.bryanbraun.com/2014/04/02/publishing-books-to-git...

    Comment linking /2014/04/02/publishing-books-to-github-pages-with-bitbooks

    on “Show HN: GitBook – Build beautiful programming books using GitHub and Markdown”
  22. bryanbraun · 2021-08-19

    Submitted Breaking down a ripple animation in JavaScript as a story · 68 points

    HN discussion
  23. hadad · 2025-02-27
    seem using this web lib/app https://www.bryanbraun.com/after-dark-css/

    Comment linking /after-dark-css/

    on “iMac G4(K)”
  24. calpaterson · 2017-05-27

    Submitted After Dark in CSS as a story · 29 points

    HN discussion
  25. delosw · 2022-01-03
    Toasters and more... https://www.bryanbraun.com/after-dark-css/ (Well, it mimics the old screensavers, anyway.)

    Comment linking /after-dark-css/

    on “Vanta.js: Animated 3D backgrounds for websites”
  26. bryanbraun · 2019-12-07

    Submitted Using the URL to build database-free web apps as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  27. what-imright · 2022-08-07
    Stop trying to make hardware last forever. Who here would like to use hardware from 2017? iPhone x anyone? The lifetime of these devices is defined by the reasonable update schedule of the consumer, which is based on moores law. 5 years is a reasonable update schedule. Then put one in a museum and live in the now. You get this much time forget the nostalgia https://www.bryanbraun.com/your-life/months.html

    Comment linking /your-life/months.html

    on “Electronics are built with death dates. Let’s not keep them a secret”
  28. tobr · 2019-09-23

    Submitted Web-dev nirvana, and why I needed to let go of React to reach it as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  29. bryanbraun · 2021-09-12
    There's a better webcam demo that's kind of buried but fun to play with here: https://www.bryanbraun.com/checkboxland/docs/demos/webcam-te...

    Comment linking /checkboxland/docs/demos/webcam-test/

    on “Checkboxland”
  30. bryanbraun · 2014-11-28

    Submitted Every Possible Way to Define a JavaScript Function as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion

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