Chen Hui Jing | 陈慧晶

“But simply watching work happen, without any of the creative, autonomous activity that would occur if they were doing the work themselves, gives rise to a degree of boredom and stupefaction that can be physically painful and spiritually debilitating.”

”We are witnessing a civilizational "race to the middle," where the complexity of human thought is sacrificed on the altar of algorithmic smoothness.”

i love a solid debugging the browser write-up

A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020.

It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛

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my first web conference of 2026. thank you to Aris Markogiannakis for letting me MC your fantastic conference 🫶🏻
it was so nice to catch up with folks i haven't seen in years 🤓

YouTube video by Syntax This nav broke my brain (coding speed run)

watching @wesbos.com speed-run CSS on @syntax.fm is the kind of compelling content i wanna watch on my off day

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S98u...

oooooo i didn't know about this one 🤓

Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969 Every decade brings new promises: this time, we'll finally make software development simple enough that we won't need so many developers. From COBOL to AI, the pattern repeats. Business leaders gro...

"Software development is thinking made tangible. The artifacts we create—whether COBOL programs, Delphi forms, or Python scripts—are the visible outcome of invisible reasoning about complexity."
-@stephan-schwab.com

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Do not give up your brain It's tempting to just let tools think for you, but you still need to be able to think for yourself and stay sharp.

"It’s really tempting to say that you’re just “using the resources you have” when you use a simple query here and there, but your brain is the best resource you’ll have for the rest of your life, and you should keep it sharp." @cassidoo.co

Do not give up your brain

🔗 cassidoo.co/post/good-br...

love a good non-English CSS typography post 🫶🏻

A lot of popups with weird confirm messages.

Random colored circles with overlapping colors.

The vintage Pong game.

Random Maths formulas flying through the screen.

Fun isn’t a distraction from learning, it’s how we learn best.
The web is still a playful playground: open a text editor, try something weird, learn something new.

Let's all keep the web fun, weird, and wonderful!
➡️ patrickbrosset.com/articles/202...

where good ideas come from (for coding agents) (and the part where users have to level up)

“agents make code cheaper. they do not make judgment cheap.”
–@threepointone.bsky.social

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21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.

“The skill isn’t being right. It’s entering discussions to align on the problem, creating space for others, and remaining skeptical of your own certainty.”
–@addyosmani.bsky.social

These are all good lessons for us who work in tech.

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“This is not because producers are careless, but because once production is cheap enough, junk is what maximises volume, margin, and reach. The result is not abundance of the best things, but overproduction of the most consumable ones.”

Introducing CSS Grid Lanes It’s here, the future of masonry layouts on the web!

Today the CSS Working Group resolved to rename the property that lets you adjust the tolerance of how content lays out in CSS Grid Lanes to `flow-tolerance`!

Just updated the article about it with the new name.

webkit.org/blog/17660/i...

what a beautiful project ❤️

Dear Mozilla, I don't want an “Al kill switch”, I want a more responsible approach for all My concern is that Mozilla is _too_ excited about a technology that has inherent downsides and ethical problems, and I would like to see better defaults and clearer risk mitigations.

✏️ Dear Mozilla, I don't want an “Al kill switch”, I want a more responsible approach for all

a new blog post! (*I do want the kill switch, but responsible rollout matters even more in the grand scheme of things)

hidde.blog/mozilla-ai-k...

Alliance for Open Media Wins Prestigious Technology and Engineering Emmy® Award for the AV1 Video Codec AOMedia’s Video Encoder SVT-AV1 Also Recognized with an IBC2025 Innovation Award

I love that a video codec won an emmy ❤️

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this was such a lovely piece. and i truly believe that the best test of how well you understand something is being able to explain it to anybody at their level

GitHub - dnlzro/horizon: The current sky at your approximate location, rendered as a CSS gradient The current sky at your approximate location, rendered as a CSS gradient - dnlzro/horizon

found out about html day from this awesomely cool project by Daniel Lazaro: github.com/dnlzro/horiz...
plus it's built on Astro 🫶🏻

How this long-lost Chinese typewriter from the 1940s changed modern computing The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented in 1946, was found last year in an upstate New York basement.

NPR gave it some coverage earlier this year when a prototype was discovered in someone's basement

www.npr.org/2025/07/05/n...

YouTube video by 老师好我叫何同学 【何同学】我们做了一个中文打字机...

not sure if non-Chinese speaking folks are able to generate translated captions for this but if you know me, you know that Chinese typography is one of my favourite things. this is a fascinating look into the MingKwai typewriter.

youtu.be/yNoWMaOyWHY

“When you use a JavaScript framework, that isn’t the end of your work, it’s just the beginning. You still have to write your own code that makes use of that framework. Except now your code is restricted to only what the framework can do.”

I’d even drop “JavaScript” from that sentence 😉

“It just shows that all this framework "magic" that's supposed to help us can also create some really weird problems.”

I was building the exact conversational UI that is described here last Friday and also came across field-sizing but was a bit bummed about support.

Database troubleshooting for Umami | Chen Hui Jing I suck at SQL. There. I said it. I just never really had to interact with a SQL database directly over the years. So yeah, I can query a database, but managing…

a very long overdue "housekeeping" chore for my self-hosted analytics solution. 1,000,000 rows on t3.micro makes for fun migrations. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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yeah, the naming was up to me, but i was wondering what would happen the existing feed since the guid would have changed? but i just left it as rss.xml on the new site.

i love the spreadsheet analogy here

“If you’re going to really exploit the capabilities of these new tools, you need to be operating at the top of your game”

so am i, my friend...you have great taste