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Varun Barad
Personal blog · varunbarad.com/blogprogrammingweb
Varun Barad's personal blog at varunbarad.com covers programming and web. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Varun Barad's blog for a blogging-achievements post, which one commenter called excellent whimsy. Other links cite a macOS .DS_Store tip and a backend developer resume.
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.
My online home where I post about new things I learn or find interesting.
What Hacker News says?
Not strictly the topic, but don't miss or sleep on the blog (self-)gamification links[1][2], excellent whimsy. 1: https://hamatti.org/posts/i-gamified-my-own-blog/ 2: https://varunbarad.com/blog/blogging-achievements
Comment linking /blog/blogging-achievements
on “Static sites enable a good time travel experience”Submitted Fixing Firefox's Face Flaws as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLocation: India Remote: Yes, only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Backend. I have professional experience with Kotlin and PostgreSQL for backend and also with Android Development but I also have worked with Python and Javascript. Resume: https://varunbarad.com/resume/ Email: contact@varunbarad.com
Comment linking /resume/
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2023)”Submitted Check if your request body is compressed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAfter copying the files, macOS created several ._* AppleDouble metadata files on the FAT32 partition. These are normally harmless on a Mac, but console recovery environments may interpret them as additional files, so I removed them before returning the card to the Wii U. There is a setting which can help with Macs leaving those files on everything they touch: https://varunbarad.com/blog/til-avoid-ds-store
Comment linking /blog/til-avoid-ds-store
on “When Internal Memory Fails: A No-Solder Wii U Recovery”