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Chen Hui Jing | 陈慧晶 @huijing.bsky.social · 2d

i love the spreadsheet analogy here

Saron Yitbarek @saron.bsky.social · 2d

Was surprised to see that, even though CSS Grid isn't a new feature, it's still high on the list of things devs find confusing, so wrote a post about it.

I focus on a new mental model I think is helpful. Let me know what you think!

webkit.org/blog/17474/c...

CSS Grid: A helpful mental model and the power of grid lines

Grid is a powerful, flexible tool that brings complex layouts to life.

webkit.org

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Chen Hui Jing | 陈慧晶 @huijing.bsky.social · 3d

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

Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 4d

Vibe coding is irresponsibly building software through dice rolls, not caring what code is produced

What about when engineers at the top of their game use AI tools responsibly to accelerate their work?

I propose "vibe engineering"!

simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/v...

Vibe engineering

I feel like vibe coding is pretty well established now as covering the fast, loose and irresponsible way of building software with AI—entirely prompt-driven, and with no attention paid to …

simonwillison.net

Chen Hui Jing | 陈慧晶 @huijing.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Chen Hui Jing | 陈慧晶 @huijing.bsky.social · 3d

omg i need to watch this talk 🤩

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Chen Hui Jing | 陈慧晶 @huijing.bsky.social · 3d

Some musings about building sample applications. You know, for sharing knowledge and all that...

chenhuijing.com/blog/lets-ta...

Let's talk sample apps | Chen Hui Jing

I'm back in the Developer Relations profession. But after going through the migration last weekend, it occurred to me that some part of my current job was…

chenhuijing.com

Chen Hui Jing | 陈慧晶 @huijing.bsky.social · 4d

i would like this as a poster on my wall, ma'am

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Chen Hui Jing | 陈慧晶 @huijing.bsky.social · 4d

truth.
my website uses font-size-adjust: 0.49. how did i get the value? would you believe, adjusting my decimal point and using my eye-balls? 🤓

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Chen Hui Jing | 陈慧晶 @huijing.bsky.social · 5d

oh i already thought of something. so i used the default Astro blog template which comes with rss.xml.js. my original feed was feed.xml. how do folks handle the rss feed when they migrate their website? send me advice!

Chen Hui Jing | 陈慧晶 @huijing.bsky.social · 5d

I've had the same blog for more than a decade. This is the second time I'm migrating to another tech stack. I'm surprised how easy it was to deploy with Netlify simply by switching repos. I guess I'll find out if I broke anything in the coming days...haha

chenhuijing.com/blog/migrati...

Migrating from Hugo to Astro | Chen Hui Jing

I'm migrating my blog again. This blog has been in existence for more than 11 years. It started as a Jekyll site. Then I moved to Hugo. Now I'm moving it to…

chenhuijing.com

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Chen Hui Jing | 陈慧晶 @huijing.bsky.social · 16d

“No, the rest of the world is already anticipating futures built on sacred memory and a sacred present. It is reciting the Qur’an five times a day, chanting mantras before meals, offering incense to ancestors, and balancing ritual and reason”– @didou.bsky.social

publicseminar.org/2025/09/pete...

Peter Thiel and the Decline of the West - Public Seminar

Ahmed Bouzid critiques tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel's idea that Christianity can redeem Western civilization from moral decline.

publicseminar.org

Chen Hui Jing | 陈慧晶 @huijing.bsky.social · 16d

i would guess that most developers don't think of CSS more than a tool to change colours and spacing but like @amitsheen.bsky.social shows, browsers have shipped CSS functionality that allows a great deal of creativity, especially for animations in the browser.
math is cool, kids 😎

#css #webdev

Amit Sheen @amitsheen.bsky.social · 17d

✨ New article ✨

Are we at the start of a new era?

Chrome 140 introduced CSS Typed Arithmetic. It might seem like a minor change, but I believe it's huge as it opens the door to countless new possibilities and a whole new era of Computational CSS.

What do you think?

css-tricks.com/css-typed-ar...

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Chen Hui Jing | 陈慧晶 @huijing.bsky.social · 23d

“Our job is not just to write code, but to use our critical thinking and analysis skills to make decisions outside of the scope of writing characters in a text editor.”

piccalil.li/blog/while-y...

While you’re fixing the fun stuff, fix the important stuff too

We walk through a fictional bug and fix a little visual issue, but we then spend time uncovering other much more important issues and fix them too.

piccalil.li

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Chen Hui Jing | 陈慧晶 @huijing.bsky.social · 23d

“It’s time to choose frameworks based on constraints and merit rather than momentum.”

www.lorenstew.art/blog/react-w...

React Won by Default – And It's Killing Frontend Innovation | Loren Stewart

Exploring how React's dominance by default stifles frontend innovation, and why deliberate framework choices lead to better tools for performance, developer experience, and ecosystem diversity.

www.lorenstew.art

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Chen Hui Jing | 陈慧晶 @huijing.bsky.social · Aug 10

spent quite some time chuckling at the responses to this thread: www.reddit.com/r/Programmer...

From the ProgrammerHumor community on Reddit: totallyBugFreeTrustMeBro

Explore this post and more from the ProgrammerHumor community

www.reddit.com

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Chen Hui Jing | 陈慧晶 @huijing.bsky.social · Aug 9

“When I have had engineers who were 10x as valuable as others it was primarily due to their ability to prevent unnecessary work.”

colton.dev/blog/curing-...

No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive

Curing Your AI 10x Engineer Imposter Syndrome

colton.dev

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Chen Hui Jing | 陈慧晶 @huijing.bsky.social · Jul 20

as someone who's first OS was MS-DOS, this gave me a warm nostalgic feeling inside
aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...

Frame of preference

A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.

aresluna.org

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Chen Hui Jing | 陈慧晶 @huijing.bsky.social · Jul 15

“This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.”

metr.org/blog/2025-07...

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find th...

metr.org

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Ana Tudor @anatudor.bsky.social · May 20

I wrote something about #AI on @frontendmasters.com... something with a long title!

#ChatGPT and the proliferation of obsolete and broken solutions to problems we hadn’t had for over half a decade before its launch frontendmasters.com/blog/chatgpt...

ChatGPT and the proliferation of obsolete and broken solutions to problems we hadn’t had for over half a decade before its launch

It was a lovely day on the internet when someone asked how to CSS animated gradient text like ChatGPT’s “Searching the web” and promptly got an answer saying “Have you tried asking ChatGPT? Here’s wha...

frontendmasters.com

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Chen Hui Jing | 陈慧晶 @huijing.bsky.social · May 15

"The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders."

how apt in today's world. but I suppose it applies universally across the timeline of organized human civilization
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Chen Hui Jing | 陈慧晶 @huijing.bsky.social · May 15

Came across this in Children of Dune: "Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. ..."
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Anne van Kesteren @annevk.nl · May 7

🥳 We added new attributes to HTML to enhance : webkit.org/blog/16900/p...

Add wide gamut P3 and alpha transparency to your color picker in HTML

Now HTML lets you create a color picker for wide gamut P3 color and for alpha transparency with two new attributes: <input type="color" colorspace="display-p3" alpha>, available today in Safari 18.4.

webkit.org

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Chen Hui Jing | 陈慧晶 @huijing.bsky.social · May 8

definitely worth a listen

art19.com/shows/philos...

Rethinking the Enlightenment | Historian Aviva Chomsy

The spectre of the Enlightenment What the Enlightenment a net positive or a net negative? Or is that the wrong question, and should we look at it simply as a historical period? Join Professor of His...

art19.com

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Chen Hui Jing | 陈慧晶 @huijing.bsky.social · Apr 29

I find myself nodding in agreement with Josh and the points he so eloquently puts forward

Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · Apr 14

In the blog post, I share my thoughts on “vibe coding”, as well as the things that make me worried, and the things that give me hope. You can read the full article here:

www.joshwcomeau.com/blog/the-pos...

The Post-Developer Era • Josh W. Comeau

When OpenAI released GPT-4 back in March 2023, they kickstarted the AI revolution. The consensus online was that front-end development jobs would be totally eliminated within a year or two.Well, it’s ...

www.joshwcomeau.com

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Chen Hui Jing | 陈慧晶 @huijing.bsky.social · Apr 25

“But fundamentally, all Transformer-based AI models are pattern-matching machines. [...] These models excel at standard problems where step-by-step procedures align with patterns in their training data but collapse when facing novel proof challenges requiring much deeper mathematical insight.”

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Apr 25

New study shows why simulated reasoning AI models don’t yet live up to their billing

Top AI models excel at math problems but lack reasoning needed for Math Olympiad proofs.

arstechnica.com

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Chen Hui Jing | 陈慧晶 @huijing.bsky.social · Apr 16

haven't done a chain thing in forever.
chenhuijing.com/blog/tag-you...

tagging @csswizardry.com and @zellwk.bsky.social if you feel like joining the chain too

Tag, you're it!

Blogging about blogging seems kinda meta to me. It’s definitely fun to see how and why folks started and continue to blog. I got tagged by Hidde, so why not get this going?

chenhuijing.com

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