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🦜 Nic Chan

@www.nicchan.me@rss-parrot.net

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The personal blog of Nic Chan, a front-end web developer.

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Site URL: www.nicchan.me

Feed URL: www.nicchan.me/feed.xml

Posts: 37

Followers: 1

The f*** off contact page

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/the-f-off-contact-page/

Published: December 8, 2025 00:00

How to get people to NOT contact you

Newsletters that regularly hit my inbox these days

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/newsletters-that-regularly-hit-my-inbox/

Published: November 25, 2025 00:00

Also I got featured in People & Blogs!

Exploring grid-aware websites

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/exploring-grid-aware-websites/

Published: August 26, 2025 00:00

Could adapting websites to a user's energy grid help make them more sustainable?

Read the latest issue of Branch Magazine

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/read-the-latest-issue-of-branch-magazine/

Published: July 24, 2025 14:31

Bridging the gap between web development and sustainability.

Building my new website: A modern approach to font fallbacks with font property adjustments

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/building-my-new-website-part-6-font-fallbacks/

Published: July 22, 2025 00:00

Also, how personal is too personal for a personal site?

Please, can we have ARIA Notify

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/please-can-we-have-aria-notify/

Published: July 10, 2025 00:00

A hate letter to live regions.

Was my IAAP Certification worth it?

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/was-my-iaap-certification-worth-it/

Published: July 7, 2025 00:00

Plus a bunch of easily detectable errors, you're welcome!

We launched our first Shopify theme

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/we-launched-our-first-shopify-theme/

Published: June 14, 2025 00:00

This theme is the reason why I've disappeared from the internet for the past half a year.

You're not a front-end developer until you've...

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/youre-not-a-front-end-developer-until-youve/

Published: June 11, 2025 00:00

Published at least one shitpost!

Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just fine

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/coming-out-of-my-cage-and-ive-been-doing-just-fine/

Published: April 13, 2025 00:00

Tag, you're it

Shopify, accessibility lawsuits & 'Compliance'

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/shopify-accessibility-lawsuits-compliance/

Published: October 9, 2024 00:00

Accessibility is your responsibility too.

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

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/building-my-new-website-part-5/

Published: September 29, 2024 00:00

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

Launch day

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/launch-day/

Published: September 18, 2024 00:00

My heartfelt thanks

Building my new website: light-dark and blog posts

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/building-my-new-website-part-4/

Published: September 10, 2024 00:00

Finally making headway

When security and accessibility clash: Why are banking applications so inaccessible?

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/when-security-and-accessibility-clash/

Published: April 17, 2024 00:00

A quick exploration of accessibility anti-patterns in banking applications

Building my new website: Modern problems require Modern CSS techniques

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/building-my-new-website-part-3/

Published: March 6, 2024 00:00

I refactor things, several times

The types information available on the internet and why AI is bad for all of them

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/the-types-of-information-available-on-the-internet-and-why-ai-is-bad-for-all-of-them/

Published: February 20, 2024 00:00

Warning, the outlook is not positive.

Have we forgotten how to build ethical things for the web?

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/have-we-forgotten-how-to-build-ethical-things-for-the-web/

Published: February 9, 2024 00:00

Reflections on the arcane art of making good, ethical websites

View transitions and stacking context: Why does my CSS View Transition ignore z-index?

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/view-transitions-and-stacking-context/

Published: October 28, 2023 00:00

Thankfully, there's a workaround!

Building my new website: Windows and View Transitions

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/building-my-new-website-part-2/

Published: October 25, 2023 00:00

A look at exactly how much existential despair goes into the process of building a website.

Building my new website: Ideation

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/building-my-new-website-part-1/

Published: September 16, 2023 00:00

Warning: it gets messy!

Talk: Developing an Accessible 'Add to cart' Flow

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/talk-developing-an-accessible-add-to-cart-flow/

Published: September 5, 2023 00:00

A talk I gave at the W3C/OGC Maps for the Web Workshop on map accessibility.

Bulletproofing your Content Management System (CMS)

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/bulletproofing-your-cms/

Published: June 15, 2023 00:00

Help your future self by making sure your CMS can take anything clients throw at it.

CSS Specificity for Beginners

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/css-specificity-for-beginners/

Published: October 17, 2022 00:00

An introduction to CSS specificity in non-technical terms

Modding Stardew Valley for accessibility

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/modding-stardew-valley-for-accessibility/

Published: April 18, 2022 00:00

What can looking at Stardew Valley mods teach us about how to make video games more accessible?

My white whale: A use case for will-change

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/a-use-case-for-will-change/

Published: February 3, 2022 00:00

what the heck does will-change even do anyway

A Complete Guide to Accessibility Tooling

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/a-complete-guide-to-accessibility-tooling/

Published: October 24, 2021 00:00

From code snippets to testing suites, this article rounds up a bunch of accessibility tooling

Tips for Focus Styles

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/tips-for-focus-styles/

Published: January 28, 2021 00:00

A series of notes on focus styles, an assortment of suggestions for both designers who may be looking for information on how to design focus styles, as well as tips for developers on implementing them.

Talk: UI patterns in existing web map widgets

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/talk-ui-patterns-in-existing-web-map-widgets/

Published: October 9, 2020 00:00

A talk I gave at the W3C/OGC Maps for the Web Workshop on map accessibility.

Usability Testing Popular Shopify Themes

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/usability-testing-popular-shopify-themes/

Published: January 20, 2020 00:00

A deep dive into the accessibility of the Shopify theme landscape.

What Tumblr Taught Me About Accessibility

https://www.nicchan.me/blog/what-tumblr-taught-me-about-accessibility/

Published: August 15, 2019 00:00

Things I've learned about accessibility from my many years on Tumblr.