Nic Chan

I was listening to the excellent (now completed) Waste Not Why Not podcast when I first heard the term ‘wishcycling’.

I’ve never been one to write these kinds of posts, but I’ve really enjoyed reading these!

Edit: Woah, this post broke containment!

I got tagged in this by my buddy Jan Maarten, who got tagged by my other buddy Eric Bailey.

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.

I always had a strong interest in environmental and sustainability causes.

This is a post in a series about building my new website, check out the previous post in this series.

I’m delighted to see that there has been more chatter about implementing the ARIA Notify API.

A reader of the blog asked me if my International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) Web Accessibility Specialist (WAS) certification was worth it.

Ive just passed the 10 year mark of my career in web development!

The Primavera theme has five different preset looks that you can customize as much or as little as you need.

It’s 2025 and I’m titling blog posts with song lyrics as if I were thirteen again.

Summary Accessibility is affected by both content and code.

This is a post in a series about building my new website, check out the previous post in this series.

Welp, the cat’s out the bag!

This is a post in a series about building my new website, check out the previous post in this series.

Let’s be real, regardless of your ability level, most banking applications are not particularly fun to use.

This is a post in a series about building my new website, check out the previous post in this series.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defin- no, don’t worry, this post isn’t going to start that way!

I’ve worked on a few projects where values and ethics were a key part of the clients’ mission.

Readers Of The Blog™ may know that I have been experimenting with the View Transitions API as a way to provide animations in my new portfolio site.

This is a post in a series about building my new website, check out the previous post in this series.

I’ve been getting the itch to redo my site for a while now.

I was excited to see my axe-con 2022 talk was posted on Youtube!

How many times have you been in the discovery process with a client when they say something like “And of course, we’ll need to be able to edit the content on our own.”

CSS is a styling language that allows us to apply styles to our website.

Stardew Valley is a farming simulator game that was released in 2016 by a solo developer, ConcernedApe.

I’ve been a professional web developer for seven years now, which has given me a little bit of time to explore the big wide world of CSS.

I’m honored to have published an article on Smashing Magazine!

Last updated on March 28, 2024 Below are 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.

Standalone Slides Introduction (0:00) Hello everyone!

In recent years, there has been a sharp increase in the number of lawsuits filed in response to inaccessible websites.

As someone who was a teenager during its peak, Tumblr has had an undeniable influence on my life.

In my role as a developer for Alt and Dot, I work on both building custom themes from scratch as well as improving existing stores.

I launched the first version of this site well over 3 years ago, and it was one of my first fully completed code projects.

Recently, I was tasked with replacing a background video, created in Apple Motion, with an HTML5 canvas animation.

I just received a brand new Dell XPS in the mail, whoo!

Having grown up in the age of blinkies, I have a special fondness for animated elements.

Just recently, I had the opportunity to build my first Shopify theme, and I had to learn to get productive quickly.