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Nic Chan
Personal blog · nicchan.me/blogwebdesign
Nic Chan's personal blog at nicchan.me covers web and design. Since 2017, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Exploring Grid-Aware Websites”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Nic Chan's personal site, with a "fuck off contact page" post and an art section. Commenters link it as an example of a personal website and recommend her art.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Nic Chan is a front-end web developer who specializes in design systems, accessibility and Shopify.
Most-linked posts?
- Exploring Grid-Aware Websites2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-28
What Hacker News says?
Yep, it's lovely. I'd recommend people check out her art too: https://www.nicchan.me/art/
Comment linking /art/
on “The fuck off contact page”Submitted The fuck off contact page as a story · 494 points
HN discussionDo we know that for a fact? You described them as a "web development consultant", but I couldn't tell for certain what their exact role on this project was. Their services page ( https://www.nicchan.me/services/ ) lists both "Web Application front-ends" and "translate your designs into a scalable system", so I think they offer a range.
Comment linking /services/
on “The fuck off contact page”Submitted Exploring Grid-Aware Websites as a story · 22 points
HN discussionLocation: Hong Kong Remote: Yes please! I've been working remotely with US based companies consistently for the past 2 years, I can make it work. :) Willing to relocate: Nope Technologies: I'm full stack with a preference for the front end. Meteor, Node, PHP, Laravel, a smattering of CMSes including Grav, Perch, Shopify, HTML, CSS and its pre/postprocessors, Javascript, React, Vue, Git, Linux, Webpack, Gulp, animati…
Comment linking /about/
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2017)”Submitted OS-themed site: no JavaScript, accessible and mobile-first as a story · 15 points
HN discussionI prefer simple designs. Steph Ango's website comes to my mind: https://stephango.com/ramblings I guess I also really like my own: https://bryanhogan.com/ I also realised writing this, 3 other pages I wanted to share didn't include a blog (1. https://www.yasmins.site/projects 2. https://www.alasdairmonk.com/ 3. https://glenn.me/ ). Very artsy but also nice: https://www.nicchan.me/about/
Comment linking /about/
on “Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?”Submitted Exploring Grid-Aware Websites as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI‘m at https://nik.digital :) Some others: https://samwho.dev https://www.nicchan.me
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Wishcessibility as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The types of information on the internet and why AI is bad for all of them as a story · 1 points
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