Directory Blog

Nic Chan

Nic Chan — Independent front-end web developer

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

Nic Chan writes about front-end web development with accessibility woven into everything. Her posts cover modern CSS techniques, grid layouts, font rendering, and ARIA specifications — always with an eye toward making things work for everyone. The blog itself practices what it preaches: users can customize the font, color scheme, and animation preferences. The writing is casual and opinionated, and she's not above titling a post with an expletive when the topic calls for it.

Written by Nic Chan.

About This Blog

IndieWeb & Blogging Web Development

Activity

Infrequent

Publishes sporadically

Followers

Full Content

RSS feed includes complete post content for reading in-app

Direct Access

Feed can be fetched directly from your browser

Direct Post Links

Post pages can be loaded directly in the reader

Embeddable

Posts can be displayed inline in the reader view

Wishcessibility

February 10, 2026

I was listening to the excellent (now completed) Waste Not Why Not podcast when I first heard the term ‘wishcycling’. If you’re not familiar with the term, wishcycling is basically what happens at the end of any house party comprised of adults in their thirties. In a sincere attempt to be helpful, the attendees will gather all the trash and recycling, so as to not impose on the host too much. However, one person will inevitably misunderstand what constitutes valid recycling and optimistically ch...

2025 Recap

January 4, 2026

I’ve never been one to write these kinds of posts, but I’ve really enjoyed reading these! Hearing that my buddies had small moments of joy and success makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside, despite the overall mood of 2025. For me, the overall theme of this year was survival. I knew with several months out of the year gone to theme development, I wasn’t going to break my personal record for income, but that’s fine by me. I know how badly others in our industry have been affected by the current eco...

The f*** off contact page

December 8, 2025

Edit: Woah, this post broke containment! If you’re new here, hi! You can find some settings to customize your reading experience in the bottom right.This post contains swear words. I’ve censored the first one, but read on at your peril! Many years ago, I had a client that sold a service. They weren’t a design agency, but for the sake of anonymity, we’ll just call them a design agency. Let us say that their core offering was a full-service design package, but they also made a substantial part o...

Newsletters that regularly hit my inbox these days

November 25, 2025

I got tagged in this by my buddy Jan Maarten, who got tagged by my other buddy Eric Bailey. I’m not gonna lie, both of these lists have very strong overlap with my own lists. I’ll try my best not to be too repetitive, but it will be hard as they are both stellar lists that I wholeheartedly co-sign. Jan also has some really, good practical advice on how to receive newsletters in a way that don’t add to my 2000+ unread inbox emails, it’s very much worth taking a look. When I was thinking of who I...

Exploring grid-aware websites

August 26, 2025

Over the past year, I’ve had the incredible privilege of getting to participate in the Grid-Aware Websites (affectionately abbreviated to GAW) advisory group. The Green Web Foundation team have thoroughly explained what a grid-aware website is in this detailed case study of the Branch Magazine redesign, but if I had to put it in my own words, a grid-aware website responds to the cleanliness or dirtiness of a user’s electricity grid. In simpler terms, whether it is currently using more renewable...

Similar Blogs

If you enjoy Nic Chan, you might also like these blogs.