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Varun Vachhar

Personal blog · varun.cadesignprogramming

Varun Vachhar's personal blog at varun.ca covers design and programming. Since 2014, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “How We built the Storybook Day 3D animation”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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33mentions?
16HN people?
2014–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Varun Vachhar's personal blog with a frontend lean, linked in a list of favourite programming blogs by programmers. The writing section is the linked page.

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.

DX engineer & Generative artist. I make minimalist visuals with code: limited palettes, simple geometry, looping motion, using canvas, SVG and shaders. By day I'm on the DX team for Storybook and Chromatic, working on tools to build, test, and document UIs.

Most-linked posts?

  1. How We built the Storybook Day 3D animation
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-25
  2. Component Based Design System with Styled-System
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-21
  3. Component Based SVG Icon System
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-13
  4. Show HN: Making things move – scrolly-telling breakdown of an animation
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-01
  5. Show HN: Learning CSS Grids
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-18
  6. Metaballs (2017)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-18
  7. Noise in Creative Coding
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-22
  8. How to build 3D scenes with React Three Fiber
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. conartist · 2022-02-07Recommends
    Some of my favorites more Frontend leaning: - https://www.joshwcomeau.com/ - https://jhey.dev/writing/ - https://varun.ca/writing - https://ishadeed.com/articles/

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    on “Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers”
  2. winkerVSbecks · 2017-10-17

    Submitted Show HN: Metaballs as a story · 673 points

    HN discussion
  3. winkerVSbecks · 2021-04-22

    Submitted Noise in Creative Coding as a story · 250 points

    HN discussion
  4. metadat · 2022-10-26

    Submitted Metaballs (2017) as a story · 102 points

    HN discussion
  5. winkerVSbecks · 2014-09-07

    Submitted Show HN: My Blog about CSS, JS, Canvas and WebGL as a story · 31 points

    HN discussion
  6. bpierre · 2018-05-15

    Submitted Components as a story · 15 points

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  7. winkerVSbecks · 2015-11-23

    Submitted Show HN: Recreating the “This Also” Loader in SVG as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  8. winkerVSbecks · 2017-12-25

    Submitted JavaScript Frameworks: The Year of Convergence as a story · 5 points

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  9. winkerVSbecks · 2017-11-01

    Submitted Show HN: Animating Clipped Shapes as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  10. winkerVSbecks · 2021-11-18

    Submitted How to build 3D scenes with React Three Fiber as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. 10-6 · 2017-12-26

    Submitted JavaScript Frameworks: The Year of Convergence as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. winkerVSbecks · 2017-05-18

    Submitted Show HN: Learning CSS Grids as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. hulkaad · 2017-02-13

    Submitted Component Based SVG Icon System as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. winkerVSbecks · 2017-02-13

    Submitted Show HN: Component Based SVG Icon System as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. winkerVSbecks · 2023-07-04

    Submitted Show HN: Iridescent crystal with raymarching and signed distance fields as a story · 2 points

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  16. winkerVSbecks · 2022-01-10

    Submitted Show HN: Three ways to create 3D particle effects as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. hidden-spyder · 2021-11-21

    Submitted Learning CSS Grid (2017) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. winkerVSbecks · 2020-12-23

    Submitted Let's Build a Confetti Cannon as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. winkerVSbecks · 2020-12-01

    Submitted Show HN: Making things move – scrolly-telling breakdown of an animation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. twog · 2020-05-20

    Submitted Beyond the basics, a guide on building Figma plugins as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. winkerVSbecks · 2018-08-12

    Submitted Show HN: Reuleaux Polygons as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. bulkan · 2017-05-22

    Submitted Learning CSS Grids as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. winkerVSbecks · 2015-01-06

    Submitted Show HN: Location Services with AngularJS as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. alexharri · 2024-02-11

    Submitted Noise in Creative Coding as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. sacrosanct · 2023-08-19

    Submitted How We built the Storybook Day 3D animation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. winkerVSbecks · 2023-04-25

    Submitted Show HN: We built the Storybook Day 3D animation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. omarfarooq · 2021-11-19

    Submitted How to build 3D scenes with React Three Fiber as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. pcr910303 · 2020-12-02

    Submitted Making things move – A story-telling breakdown of an animation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. kick · 2019-10-18

    Submitted Metaballs (2017) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. jasim · 2019-03-21

    Submitted Component Based Design System with Styled-System as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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