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Rach Smith

Personal blog · rachsmith.comwebcareer

Rach Smith's personal blog at rachsmith.com covers web and career. Since 2015, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Is TypeScript Good?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-10, and you can follow it by feed.

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13mentions?
11HN people?
2015–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Commenters link Rach Smith's blog for a 2016 post on career FOMO, and in a thread about an animated header codepen to credit her as the original author. None of the comments judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Hi 👋🏼 I'm Rach. A developer building software for CodePen, wife, mother of two, productivity nerd and recovering screen addict. This is my digital garden.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Is TypeScript Good?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-23
  2. I haven't experienced imposter syndrome, and maybe you haven't either
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-10-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. jasonlotito · 2015-04-29
    http://codepen.io/MarcoGuglielmelli/details/lLCxy Original author commented, and this was referenced: http://tympanus.net/Development/AnimatedHeaderBackgrounds/ This seems to be the original author: http://rachsmith.com/ Are you positive in your claim that Visual Idiot owns the code?

    Comment linking /

    on “Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship”
  2. unripe_syntax · 2021-09-03

    Submitted I completely ignored the front end development scene for 6 months. It was fine as a story · 144 points

    HN discussion
  3. maxt · 2016-11-14
    Classic case of Career FOMO https://rachsmith.com/2016/career-fomo

    Comment linking /2016/career-fomo

    on “One year later”
  4. saeedesmaili · 2023-03-08

    Submitted AI is making it easier to create more noise, when all I want is good search as a story · 58 points

    HN discussion
  5. surprisetalk · 2025-01-06
    Cool people: • https://tracydurnell.com • https://www.benkuhn.net • https://schmud.de • https://brandur.org • https://bytes.zone • https://cassidoo.co • https://www.chrbutler.com • https://sive.rs • https://fasterthanli.me • https://akkartik.name • https://www.todepond.com • https://blog.gingerbeardman.com • https://gwern.net • https://interconnected.org • https://jacobfilipp.com • https://johnnywebber.com • https:/…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Favorite blog in 2024?”
  6. tomstokes · 2017-10-16

    Submitted I haven't experienced imposter syndrome, and maybe you haven't either as a story · 33 points

    HN discussion
  7. pzrsa · 2023-01-16

    Submitted The hardest part of being a Junior Developer as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. handfuloflight · 2025-01-22

    Submitted Is TypeScript Good? (2023) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. theCreators · 2023-07-23

    Submitted Is TypeScript Good? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. surprisetalk · 2023-04-09

    Submitted Recreating the Title Effect from Creativesouth.com as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. surprisetalk · 2023-04-06

    Submitted Lerp as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. headalgorithm · 2023-01-23

    Submitted Subscribe a Lot, Consume a Little as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. msrpotus · 2019-02-20

    Submitted I Haven't Experienced Imposter Syndrome, and Maybe You Haven't Either as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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