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Chen Hui Jing
Personal blog · chenhuijing.com/blogwebdesign
Chen Hui Jing's personal blog at chenhuijing.com covers web and design. Since 2015, 30 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “East Asian Character Emojis ㊗”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Chen Hui Jing's posts on CSS and HTML topics, such as ruby annotations for internationalisation, framework-free HTML slides, and a comparison of tunnelling services. The comments don't judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The chronicles of a self-taught designer and developer who started building on the web when HTML tables were being phased out and floats were the hot new thing.
Most-linked posts?
- East Asian Character Emojis ㊗3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-09-13
- Recreating the Fool's Mate Chess Move with CSS Grid2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-16
- Internet Explorer 3, an adventure in cross-browser compatibility2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-03
What Hacker News says?
I took a react class and the intro was a lot of html/css/design stuff. The CSShints site isn't just CSS, so its worth exploring. There is a lot of good stuff published that's hard to find. I wish I had a better catch all resource page. Codepen.io is a good playground to play around with html/css/javascript and it has some javascript frameworkstuff too. A lot of people put together good content. It seems to surface t…
Comment linking /blog/how-i-design-with-css-grid/
on “DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks”Submitted How well do you know CSS display? as a story · 166 points
HN discussionThe author covers it in another article (2016): https://www.chenhuijing.com/blog/html-ruby/#%F0%9F%9A%B2
Comment linking /blog/html-ruby/
on “CSS for Internationalisation”Submitted CSS for Internationalisation as a story · 165 points
HN discussionMy experience has been that "grok" as used by coders is synonymous to "understand", with the caveat that it's used to indicate in-group membership in the hacker community. It is rarely used in the original, Heinlein sense. For example, http://imranontech.com/2007/01/24/using-fizzbuzz-to-find-dev... is titled "Using FizzBuzz to Find Developers who Grok Coding", but at best FizzBuzz can tell if someone had a basic und…
Comment linking /blog/the-one-where-i-grok-jquery/
on “The Mystery of the Deterministic Super Shotgun”Submitted Math and front-end as a story · 113 points
HN discussion> To keep the line wrapping consistent with how the designer sees it in the application From my perspective as a low-vision person who often uses magnification, this is an unwelcome invasion of the one-size-fits-all mindset from print design. Let my device reflow the text. Designers just have to embrace this newer, more dynamic medium. Edit: Besides accessibility, what about the variety of screen sizes we have these…
Comment linking /blog/a-better-web-design-process/
on “Show HN: Moebius – HTML5 Canvas Drag and Drop Website Builder (macOS Alpha)”Submitted East Asian character emojis – “the fuller” story as a story · 71 points
HN discussionThe “inspired by” article is where the beef is: https://www.chenhuijing.com/blog/html-slides-without-framewo...
Comment linking /blog/html-slides-without-frameworks/
on “Micro HTML and CSS Only Framework for Slides/Presentations”Submitted Recreating the Fool's Mate Chess Move with CSS Grid as a story · 25 points
HN discussionthere seem to be quite a few available. I also like telebit. btw, saw a comparison the other day: https://www.chenhuijing.com/blog/tunnelling-services-for-exp...
Comment linking /blog/tunnelling-services-for-exposing-localhost-to-the-web/
on “Show HN: NextJS + Node.js library for location tracking of business assets”Submitted Understanding Positioning in CSS as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chinese Language on the Web (2016) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted CSS for Internationalization as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted East Asian Character Emojis ㊗ as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I still like writing websites by hand as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The case for "old school" CSS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted East Asian character emojis ㊗ 🈶 🈯 🈳 (2016) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Switching from Bash to Zsh as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using DevTools to understand modern layout techniques as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted East Asian character emojis (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where Did CSS Named Colours Come From? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning CSS by Reading Specs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recreating the Fool's Mate Chess Move with CSS Grid as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Internet Explorer 3, an adventure in cross-browser compatibility as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Internet Explorer 3, an adventure in cross-browser compatibility as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dark mode using CSS blend-mode technique as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CSS exclusions with Queen Bey as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hardware Hacks: Super Silly Hackathon as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a CSS-only image gallery (with fallbacks) as a story · 1 points
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