The value of live web design
Over the years, I’ve regularly seen blog posts or articles talking about “should designers code?” (less of …
My ideal frontend interview
I’ll be the first to admit that I think I’m terrible at tech interviews. I never had a proper computer science …
Talking about talking CSS 2019 edition
November 24, 2016. The day I gave my first conference talk at CSSConf.Asia. June 3, 2017. The day I spoke at a conference outside …
Where did CSS named colours come from?
Talk.CSS, which is Singapore’s monthly CSS meetup, has a segment called CSS colour of the month, where we mention 1 of the …
Internet Explorer 3, an adventure in cross-browser compatibility
Some of you might know that I run the CSS meetup, Talk.CSS in Singapore together with my best mate, Wei. If you didn’t, you …
Friends don't let friends implement dark mode alone
So I have this friend, Wei, who’s basically an expert with CSS blend modes, right? And she came up with a really interesting …
Animating grid rows and columns
One of the biggest things in version 66 of Firefox was the ability to animate grid rows and columns when using Grid layout.
Understanding grid placement through building a HTML periodical table
I’ve been using CSS grid to build layouts for quite a while now, and all my designs to date involved either a handful of …
Using CSS to make a print banner
I talk about the web. I talk about the web a lot. But sometimes, we need stuff made in the physical world.
A short musing on writing systems
As I continued to work on my talk for JSHeroes (come say hi if you see me there), I couldn’t help but remember the amazing …
Examining ‘squishiness’ in Intrinsic Web Design
One of the highlights in the world of web design for 2018 was when Jen Simmons came up with the term Intrinsic Web Design, and …
A visit to the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia
Even though I had lived in Kuala Lumpur for about 8 years previously, I had never visited the Islamic Arts Museum before.
Talking about talking CSS 2018 edition
Last year was the first time I spoke at any event outside of Singapore, and it was quite a whirlwind experience.
How I design with CSS grid
After a couple of rounds of introducing CSS grid to people who haven’t tried it before, I found it wasn’t the …
Building a webic community
So this month, I met a lot of awesome people while attending my very first Mozilla All-Hands, among whom were Lin Clark and Jen …
Recap of Tales of the Malay World
It is not a secret that I am a huge fan of Singapore’s national libraries. Their selection of books and resources is …
Remember December: The typefaces of Tikhvin Cemetery
I got the chance to travel to Saint Petersburg, Russia in June earlier this year for pitercss conference. It was my first time …
Vertical typesetting with writing-mode revisited
About year ago, I wrote about the findings from an exercise in attempting to typeset Chinese vertically on the web. What came out …
Debugging CSS Grid Layouts With Firefox Grid Inspector
You may have heard quite a bit of talk about a CSS feature called Grid this year. If you are someone who cringes when you hear the …
Using feature queries for cascading web design
Feature queries, AKA the @supports rule, were introduced as an extension to the CSS2 as part of the CSS Conditional Rules Module …
Practical uses for the aspect-ratio media query
Back in 2016, during my first ever conference talk (albeit a sort of lightning talk) at CSSConf.Asia 2016, I said that “I just …
Building a CSS-only image gallery (with fallbacks)
This article has been translated to Japanese on SeleQt. Sometimes, we get handed a project in which we have almost complete …
Talking about talking CSS
This is almost a live recap of my tour of South-east Asia (and Hong Kong) this month (September 2017) and will be updated as …
Basic grid layout with fallbacks using feature queries
This article has been translated to Japanese on SeleQt. I’ve been using CSS grid (which henceforth will be referred to as …
Rethinking web design
I’ve been thinking a lot about web design lately. Actually I’ve been thinking about web design ever since I started …
Over-engineering Sass maps
I finally put together a landing page for the little random demos I build from time to time because, you know, CSS is my hobby.
The typefaces of Recoleta
I have a soft spot for stone engravings and whenever I get the chance to travel to a location that has some sort of cemetery or …
Building for cross-browser compatibility
This is the third post of a multi-part series about developing the brand identity for Wismut Labs. The previous post covered a …
The one in a minimalist hacker chic
I have an Argentinian friend. Not an acquaintance. A proper good friend. This is highly improbable, at least in my mind.
Chinese language on the web
If you hadn’t realised by now, I am Chinese. I was born in Malaysia, then studied and now work in Singapore.
Fun with CSS: NBA edition
This is my second “Fun with CSS” post, maybe this should become a series. But anyway, I had watched the video of Ethan …
Fun with CSS: TechLadies edition
So there’s this thing going on known as the TechLadies Bootcamp. TechLadies is a community-led initiative for women in Asia …
Tim Brown on Shoptalk Ep. 218
Episode 218 of Shoptalk featured an audio clip by one of my favourite designers, Tim Brown. It’s a short clip, but it really …
Web designers, can you speak web?
To start things off, let me state my position. This house proposes that because HTML and CSS are the language of the web, it is …
Drupal 101: Improving the content authoring experience
Episode 101 of Jen Simmons’ wonderful podcast The Web Ahead featured content strategist Eileen Webb. Good stuff from start …
A better web design process
The web is not print. I’m definitely not the first person to write about this. Just google that phrase and you’ll find …
The one where I grok jQuery
My next assignment was actually with the very first client I ever worked with. Repeat client! This time, the task was to revamp …