I’ve been helping to mentor a Coding Girls initiative called 30 days of CSS and one of the first projects involved creating a heart shape from pure CSS. This process was very interesting, so I decided to share this post. …

For the bulk of my web career, I’ve worked exclusively on the client-side of things. Designing responsive layouts, creating visualisations from large amounts of data, building application dashboards etc. But I never really had to deal with routing or HTTP requests directly. Until recently. This post is a write-up of…

Does the developer you interview truly understand CSS layouts… let’s check! — Recently, I was asked to review/rework a front-end coding test for potential hires. A colleague of mine suggested using HackerRank, as he had reasonably good outcomes from his data science coding test, and it didn’t take him too much effort to set up. …

We can do quite a lot with CSS to create fancy radio buttons (or checkboxes, for that matter), and that’s awesome. I happened to be working on a Cordova-based demo application, which had a few boolean configuration options, which made sense to be implemented as radio buttons. Plain ole’ radio…

I’ve been thinking a lot about web design lately. Actually I’ve been thinking about web design ever since I started working on the web. …

I’m typing this up as I’m sitting at the airport, on my way to St Petersburg, Russia to speak at pitercss conference and it still seems slightly surreal to me. If you are one of a handful of people who actually read the things I write, you might have gleaned…

I was born in Malaysia, a Southeast-Asian country made up of the southern portion of the Malay Peninsula and part of the island of Borneo. Ethnically, I am Chinese, and if I’m not mistaken, my ancestors migrated from the Fujian Province in China three generations ago and settled in Penang…

So I’m fresh off the latest iteration of Hackware, a monthly meetup for hardware developers and enthusiasts in Singapore and the theme for this round was Vintage Computing. …

I’ve been watching this television show, you might have heard of it, called Person of Interest. The writing, at least in my opinion, has been pretty good, and the writers are really doing the “going out with a bang” thing on this final season. The premise of the show is…