Varun Vachhar
varun.ca · Personal blog · on HN since 2014
Varun Vachhar is a front-end developer who writes about CSS, creative coding, design systems, and React-based graphics.
What HN saysA commenter lists his writing among favorite front-end blogs, alongside Josh Comeau, Jhey Tompkins, and Ishadeed.
16HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1Show HN: Metaballs3 people · 776 points · first shared 2017 · 93 comments on HN
- 2Show HN: Learning CSS Grids3 people · 7 points · first shared 2017 · 1 comments on HN
- 3Show HN: Component Based Design System with Styled-System3 people · 3 points · first shared 2018 · 1 comments on HN
- 4Noise in Creative Coding2 people · 251 points · first shared 2021 · 19 comments on HN
- 5JavaScript Frameworks: The Year of Convergence2 people · 8 points · first shared 2017 · 3 comments on HN
- 6Show HN: Component Based SVG Icon System2 people · 6 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 7How to build 3D scenes with React Three Fiber2 people · 4 points · first shared 2021 · 2 comments on HN
- 8Show HN: Making things move – scrolly-telling breakdown of an animation2 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 9Show HN: Reuleaux Polygons2 people · 3 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 10Show HN: We built the Storybook Day 3D animation2 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 11Show HN: My Blog about CSS, JS, Canvas and WebGL1 people · 31 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 12Components1 people · 15 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 13Show HN: Recreating the “This Also” Loader in SVG1 people · 13 points · first shared 2015 · 5 comments on HN
- 14Show HN: Animating Clipped Shapes1 people · 5 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 15Show HN: Location Services with AngularJS1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
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conartist · 2022-02-07
Some of my favorites more Frontend leaning:
- https://www.joshwcomeau.com/
- https://jhey.dev/writing/
- https://varun.ca/writing
- https://ishadeed.com/articles/