Jhanvi Bhatia

Jhanvi BhatiaSep 8, 2026

last week i spent some time learning how to blob track a video. wait, let me explain what that even means. it's this effect where you detect bright points in a video (like fireworks, sunlight, sparklers) and track them frame by frame, drawing boxes around each one as it moves. you've probably seen it on reels, i saw one on my feed and thought of making one myself. generally it's made using touchdesigner or after effects, but as an experiment, i tried to vibecode it using Replit. here's my process: 1. started with a react app, just a place to drop a video and play/pause it. 2. found an open-source blob tracker on github, but it was built for live camera input. had to adapt it to work on uploaded video instead of a live one. 3. detected bright regions frame by frame, drawing boxes around each one 4. changed the box outline color to red, added connecting lines between nearby points. 5. turned each box into a thermal heatmap. every pixel inside gets read for brightness and mapped to a color: dark stays invisible, mid-tones go blue and cyan, bright spots glow yellow to white. the whole thing runs locally. nothing gets uploaded anywhere. the best part of side projects like this is that you start out just wanting to recreate something, and you end up actually understanding how the effect works. love that. go try it for yourself 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dueb_Uq8

Jhanvi BhatiaSep 2, 2026

if you have 7 mins this week, i highly recommend opening youtube and watching the coolest collab between Figma x Marisa Chentakul aka @meshtimes on IG. it's part of figma's new "source material" series, where designers share the references that shaped them. i stopped mid-scroll when she was talking about her the stacked lunch box, as a design reference. it's basically the same layered tiffins so many of us grew up with here in india and i loved seeing something so familiar show up in a completely different context. marisa has been one of the designers i've followed right from the beginning of my career, and i've literally mentioned her in my interviews when i get asked what inspires me to create design content. i love being inspired by women who have contagious energy - whenever i watch them, i get this urge to build things, no matter how small or big. link to the video: https://lnkd.in/gdHumYci

Jhanvi BhatiaSep 4, 2026

there is something about japanese stationery that makes you want to buy everything. and it's not the aesthetics but the fact that every single product solves a problem you didn't know you had or you did not notice. last week i visited MUJI for the first time with Niharika Arora, and i spent the entire time pointing at things going "wait, i NEED this." ofc, i am a stationery hoarder, but here I was drawn to how clearly everything was designed around a real, specific use case. i've been looking for a sketchbook that's palm-sized and small enough to just toss in my bag and carry everywhere. i found one at MUJI that was the exact size I wanted. however, it had this one tiny detail: the cover has a flap that holds your pen. that's it. a flap. but if you carry a sketchbook around, you know exactly why that matters. i'd stopped bringing mine out because every time I wanted to sketch something, i'd have to dig through my entire bag hunting for a pen. this flap solves that problem easily. so if you ever want to get some new stationery, maybe it’s time to visit MUJI or any other japanese store nearby. i got sketchbook in orange color btw :) also shoutout to Niharika for patiently waiting while I made sure I'd covered every single aisle at least twice.