Nic Chan

I hope you're interested in what I can only describe as esoteric table rubbish that is tinged with legacy web development and which you likely don't need to know anything about, because that is what I'm serving up in my latest article. Enjoy? vale.rocks/posts/table-...

ladies, is your programming - a field dominated by rich white men - driven by fashion trends - practiced as a demonstration of status - funded by vanity projects for failsons - filled with queers trying and failing to break even that's art, sorry

Was really confused as to why some properly labelled radio inputs were being announced as 'table', but I discovered 'display: inline-table;' not only exists, but it gives table semantics. Fascinating!

I have been meaning to write about this for a month or so now but it breaks my heart. AI has infected every hobby. Everything is noise. It's hurting existing communities and trudging through the slop is exhausting.

Related to my last repost covering Lola Odelola’s ACD effort, I’ve demonstrated that Baseline doesn’t consider accessibility (declared out of scope), which is part of why this effort is so important: adrianroselli.com/2023/12/base... Google funds Baseline but we have to fund ACD. How appropriate.

I strongly encourage everyone interested in web accessibility to read through the docs. It's so rare to see components with this much thought and actual testing put into them!

it's a new season for technology & for technologists, and our labor and its impact to the world are both more greater and more dangerous than ever. how do we make sense of work in an industry many of us no longer recognize?

This is pretty much my go to app for pixel art.

my website turned four years old today! it has over 200 pages you can visit from your computer or phone or other device. i'm very proud of it

Guest hosting a couple of talks for #id24! Check them out: Samantha Merrett / Accessible by Design: Documents That Work for Everyone Julia Undeutsch / Decoding Kanji Complexity for Digital Inclusion

In 2019 I got to meet some of my heroes in web dev at a conference, all women with big social presence. Not even a few years later, none of them have any public profile and a few have left the industry entirely. I'm the only one left from that small group. 🥲

“The death of web development education – Rescuing a field from disappearing” https://molily.de/web-dev-education/ > Rescuing a field from disappearing

Just learned that there is a conspiracy theory that Rupaul made the 'Stop that Train' movie to manipulate search results from the time Rupaul mistook a 'trains' flag for the trans flag and I fully believe it 100%

Just over a week until this year's Inclusive Design 24 #id24, the free 24-hour live online conference for accessibility and inclusive design. No sign-up. No registration. All sessions are streamed live and publicly on the Inclusive Design 24 YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/inclusivedes...

This whole situation just makes me so sad. There are so few publications left that are reliably producing genuine, non-slop web content. I think I can count them on one hand. Contrast this to the smörgåsbord on offer in, say, 2015. Tragic. Lets be loud about this and keep CSS-Tricks kicking!

This is a great article. I've always been sus about the hype around JPEG XL, as it never stacked up when I actually tested it with web use-cases. giannirosato.com/blog/post/ca...

In 1999, we surfed the Web. Now we comb through it like a fantasy hero. Which posts are treasure, and which are deadly Mimics? What's real, and what's an impersonator trying to steal my attention? Worse: reading all this bland AI monoculture text leads to us thinking bland AI monoculture thoughts.

Make a band edible Nightfish

Oops. I invented a new CSS shrink-wrap technique and blogged about it. blog.codepen.io/2026/09/11/s...

The 8hr course remains just $25 with the coupon, or you can pay whatever you want—even $0—by emailing me. In between jobs? In school? Whatever, I don’t need a reason. Hit that contact form and learn a bit about web components. 👊

Taught my partner to code* *Use dev tools to adjust the video playback rate to 2x on Netflix because some reality tv trash does not deserve 1x

I have tricked you all! For the last x years I have been on this platform, I have been LARPing as a normal human being, but with the advent of a Fire Emblem game coming out that might be actually good again* you will see my full degenerate self emerge. I have taken time off. I'm so ready.

Can't wait to increasingly have invasive ai surveillance tech pitched to us as accessibility tools

While you were partying I studied the blade When you were having premarital sex I visited the blade archives in the Vatican to do primary research on 14th century blades While you wasted your days at the gym in pursuit of vanity I completed my dissertation on Oakeshott type XIIIa German longswords

I was just a tiny bit late to checking out the HK Lesbian and Gay Film Festival program this year and a bunch of things are already sold out!! what happened to the stereotype of being late HAHA

It's Saturday so let me do all these driver updates I have been neglecting! Hmmm, I should open up this graphically intensive game to make sure everything is still working -three hours later- what the hell happened where did the time go

This always bothered me about Sailor Moon

I don't know why you'd want a second brain, I can barely manage having one

It was an absolute joy to get to chat with James on the Wonders of Web Weaving podcast about personal sites and accessibility! Thanks James for having me! 🎉 web-weaving.jamesg.blog/16

Today I'm watering my calethea for the first time since getting it. I'm currently dechlorinating some water and regretting my life choices but hoping it's worth it because look this is the most beautiful plant I have seen in my entire life

🔗 Little Websites Everywhere. via Michelle Barker #development #webdev #ai #tech I am building a website, for work. It feels like a radical act these days. I am not using an LLM, I am coding with my own hands, wading through... https://michellebarker.co.uk/writing/little-websites-everywhere/

@nly just found out about @toddl.dev’s GoFundMe. Cancer sucks and shitty insurance companies refusing to cover necessary treatments suck more. gofund.me/94a19520b

Trying to figure out how to get Microsoft Teams on Linux, feels like an act against god

I think the social internet peaked at oekaki board and it's been in decline ever since

I have three black cats and only wear black so guess who tried to blearily pat a pile of dirty clothes AGAIN

Making cat scratchers out of cardboard boxes is great way to 'reuse'! We go through these so fast at the shelter 😅

My mom just said I need this many games on my phone to stave off dementia, she's just like me fr

I can't be mad, it gave me what I asked for

Gone ahead and done myself a side quest. fershad.com/writing/euro...