Chen Hui Jing articles - 104 total
Migrating content collections from Astro 4 to 5
In case you missed it, Astro 5 has been out and about since Dec 3, 2024. As of time of writing, we’re...
The case for “old school” CSS
Do people still write CSS in CSS files any more? I honestly don’t keep up with the trends as much as...
Implementing pagination on an Astro blog
Even though I built the blog for our tech team to share their insights and knowledge with the rest of...
Learning web extensions
I blinked and the first month of 2025 went by. NGL, 2024 was…challenging. So forgive me for choosing...
Chill day just HTML-ing and CSS-ing
I have not had as many chances to build websites lately because for a little over the past 100 days,...
How to try experimental CSS features
I love that browsers are now shipping new CSS features that may not necessarily have been fully baked...
Generating a weekly calendar from JSON data
The original purpose of this blog was for me to document solutions that I spent hours figuring out at...
Creating excerpts in Astro
This blog is running on Hugo. It had previously been running on Jekyll. Both these SSGs ship with the...
The value of live web design
Over the years, I’ve regularly seen blog posts or articles talking about “should designers code?”...
My ideal frontend interview
I’ll be the first to admit that I think I’m terrible at tech interviews. I never had a proper...
Pulling content from external API into Drupal 10
If you had read my previous blog post, you’ll have found out that I’m somehow unable to escape...
Customising content markdown via frontmatter in Astro
The use case I had for this was to have customisable bits of a content collection that was rendered...
OMG, I'm doing Drupal again
I’ve not written proper blog posts for a while now but I have come nearly full circle back to the...
Debugging Firefox on Android
I just figured out how to get my Android phone recognised by Android Debug Bridge (adb) on my...
So your designer wants stuff to overlap
I started my first full-time web developer job back in September of 2013 (not counting the period...
Hacking background-clip with gradient colour stops
Before we get into all the hacking and unorthodox ways of doing things, let’s talk about...
The horizontal overflow problem
My good friend, Wei, has a pet peeve: unintended horizontal over-scrolling on mobile. Which is very...
Can we enterprise CSS grid?
Regardless of whether the title of this blog post is grammatically correct or not, this is a question...
CSS card shadow effects
Card-style components are pretty much still a thing these days, and there are many ways to make a...
CSS animation on button hover state
Recently, I came across an animation prototype on a button hover state and wanted to see if I could...
@font-face fun times
I’m currently a member of the Chinese Text Layout Task Force | 中文排版需求, and we have monthly calls to...
The many methods for using SVG icons
Recently at work, I ran into a situation where we had to revisit how SVG icons were being implemented...
Debugging vertical layouts in 2021
This blog has been around for more than 7 years. Where has the time gone? I first started messing...
DevTools for CSS layouts 2021 edition
As someone who loves and works with CSS on an almost daily basis, DevTools are something near and...
Understanding browser cookies 🍪
Even though I’ve been doing web things for a while now, I confess I had never dealt with browser...
Setting up umami on Heroku
I migrated this website from Jekyll to Hugo about half a year ago and also took the opportunity to...
Migrating mLab to MongoDB Atlas
Well, well, well. It’s that time again when I revisit some random thing I built years ago and brace...
Monetizing Your Blog With Coil
I’ve had quite a bit on my plate lately, a sort of bit-off-more-than-I-could-chew situation, which is...
Let's talk about Web Monetization
Some of you may have been seeing some buzz around the Web Monetization API recently, especially if...
Broadcast Video Chat with Javascript and Vonage
This series of tutorials will explore the Vonage Video API (formerly TokBox OpenTok) and what you can...