Nic Chan

Queer disabled artist checking in 🫡🫡 probably wouldn't have spent my entire Dev career as a freelancer if I didn't spend my youth selling art on the forums

My mom, a chic Chinese lady looks like she's straight out of an 80s movie. My dad is a Chinese man with a jaw that can cut glass in his passport photo.

I'm archiving some family photographs and how come both my parents are unbelievably model-esque and I look like a potato, life is simply unfair.

DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

Accessible design is digital infrastructure — Anna E. Cook What America by Design reveals about how public platforms fail when maintenance, governance, and accountability are treated as optional and how we can do better no matter our job title.

I spent the past month examining how accessibility in design underpins digital infrastructure and how federal divestment creates brittle, inaccessible platforms.

This backslide isn’t inevitable. We can reject it and do better in our work. I explain how in this piece

annaecook.com/writing/2026...

It's polarizing due to the switching army perspectives but I think it makes it really special! Fingers crossed we get the chance to play it again 🙏

I knew I liked you for a reason! Fe9+10 is a nice deviation from yay monarchy

📝 It’s true. I’ve been there. I’ve seen these pages made. Despite the familiar title of the page feeling like an invitation — “Contact Us” — the reality is that so many of these pages are designed to keep you from doing precisely that.

blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/dont-co...

This would raise my hackles like no other. 😂

It was pretty smooth! I prefer the UI a lot more!

I do understand CEOs in a way because I too like to see the big numbers go up but instead of ruining the planet and the lives of millions of people I just play incremental games like a normal person

I have free afternoon today so I think it's finally time to switch to Linux Mint permanently? Bye windows i hated you

meme of three different spider-men pointing at each other.

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I'm angry at myself for missing this :( To a 2026 without burnout, please!

2025 Year in Review I don't write annual postmortems or bother making resolutions for the New Year. It feels like demarcating how the deck chairs have shifted slightly on my personal Titanic over time. I usually prefer t...

I published one of those posts about this past year of work and personal stuff.

janmaarten.com/2025-year-in...

You've captured this particular human experience so well, I welled up 🥲

I find them on the street & shadow. — ethanmarcotte.com It wasn’t until the end of our chat that I learned her name.

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We got some snow this weekend, which thankfully made for light shoveling. And I met a neighbor, right when I needed to. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/i-find...

Compelling argument, my 12 year old self agrees

The Friendship Material podcast reminded me of my favorite mondegreen from when I was a kid. I thought the line 'Like a wannabe, I gotta be chained to you' from Savage Garden was 'like a wallaby'. I chalked this up to them being Australian.

I don't see the difference between these pictures 😂

We have some similar goals on the creative front! Come visit, I'll try not to die on a hike with you 😁

A black and white cat is sitting upright like a human, with her front paws at her side and her back paws straight out in front. She looks to the side, eyes bright with a gormless expression.

Miette likes to sit like an old man at the park

Thank you so much, Product Picnic is one of my MUST reads so this means a lot to me!

I’m not a big user of BlueSky (yet), but if anyone sees this I’m looking for work.

I’m a front-end developer, with a focus on low-carbon, design-led, accessible, websites — often using Astro and headless CMSs like Storyblok.

I’m open to freelance or possibly the right perm role 🤞

Encountered an interesting bug with a drag and drop canvas interface today. In Firefox-based browsers, the direction of my pointer was inverted, making this form filling exercise the worst video game I've ever played

My friend asked me to help her shop for wedding dresses and it was so much fun! I really do love fashion but I try not to overconsume so it's an interest that goes neglected. Take me to your wedding dress shopping outings please!!

Yayayay for full text RSS!

she did in fact cook

per my point about the mercator projection being the root of this whole thing

Partner: so we have these cows at work-
Me: COWS? you have actual cows at work?
Partner: yeah, Computers On Wheels, is that not a term?

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My heart aches for you! I'm hoping for only good things for you in 2026 💛💛