Alex Chan
alexwlchan.net
Alex Chan
@alexwlchan.net
@jonnelledge.bsky.social Spotted in St Pancras Waterstones 👀
October 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The idea of cats roaming to get dinners in multiple households was the subject of one of my favourite books when I was a child, I am delighted as an adult to discover this is founded in reality
August 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Psh, that looks simple.

Now this? This is peak British bathroom design.
July 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
July 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Recreating a bird animation: alexwlchan.net/2025/swift-b...

I learnt a bunch about animation on the web by reading the Swift.org source code, like:

✨ Using a dash pattern to draw partial paths
✨ HTML5 Canvas and globalCompositeOperation
✨ Anime.js
✨ MutationObserver
✨ prefers-reduce-motion: reduce
June 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
May 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
March 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
actually the world was plotting against you yesterday when it led me to realise you’re on bluesky and I should follow you here and then see this post today
January 15, 2025 at 11:40 AM
1. You can scroll back past 1AD to what is presumably BCE, but the interface doesn’t update to reflect it, you just have to trust I got that far back

2. It looks just like a regular month, alas
December 31, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Preserving pixels in Paris: alexwlchan.net/2024/preserv...

Last month I went to France for a conference about archiving the web, and I’ve posted some of my thoughts and photos.
May 23, 2024 at 8:59 PM