Is there anything more annoying than the fact that after a long period of time paused, Youtube videos no longer pick up where you left off, instead they play for a few seconds before jumping back 10ish seconds and resuming 'seamlessly', creating an ouroboros of a sentence

You can get paid reporting security bugs to vendors but I've never heard of anyone getting paid for reporting accessibility bugs 🤔

📝 Shopify, accessibility lawsuits & 'Compliance' Debated hitting publish on this one since I wrote most of it angrily, in one 8 hour sitting, but I thought it would be useful/of interest to some. A -very- deep dive into whether or not we need to grab our pitforks over Shopify's accessibility.

Shopify, accessibility lawsuits &

Accessibility is your responsibility too.

#a11y

Debating between Astro and Eleventy for a client project. Astro provides a better experience for authoring client-side components, but this project is for an event that only happens yearly, and I have the feeling that if I go with Astro, I'll be saddling the client with painful upgrades down the line 🤔

📝 Building my new website: Why are pixel SVGs so difficult, table of contents & full-text RSS In which I wait 6 months to do anything and my belief that 'eh, this'll be added to core eventually' -actually pays off-. Also featuring some interesting rendering quirks with image-rendering: pixelated.

Building my new website: Why are pixel SVGs so difficult, table of contents & full-text RSS - Nic Chan

If you wait long enough, sometimes people will implement the features you need without you having to lift a finger!

I thought i cancelled my adobe subscription and they did not charge me during that month, but they appear to have charged me for the subsequent months. I couldn't find any contact links that were open to non-subscribers, so I had to become hostile to the AI chatbot in order to get a real human. If I die in the robot uprising, this is why

in this time of great trial for the internet ecosystem, we turn to the sacred texts for guidance (memes, i'm talking about memes) #WordPress https://cdn.masto.host/indiewebsocial/media_attachments/files/113/201/679/843/793/441/original/07134af85185314d.jfif

I'm (soft) launching my personal site! It took the better part of a year to get this done, I hope you take a look! I definitely have a few more things to work on, but not having it published was really killing any motivation to blog since I'd have to 'post' it twice, so look forward to more blog posts soon. 📝 (Looks the fanciest*~ in a browser that supports View Transitions)

Nic Chan

Nic Chan is a front-end web developer who specializes in design systems, accessibility and Shopify.

The building's only lift is down, might be down for a few days. My floor number is in the double digits. 🙈

Shoutout to the one day during the pandemic I got really bored and used a Calligraphr trial to make fonts of all my friends handwriting. (attached is mine, I just found it on my hard drive)