Hello, stranger! 
My name is Gabrielle Wee. I’m a front-end developer working at
Apple 

A person with long hair in a light top and gray wide-leg pants standing with their back to the camera in a large mint-green room with a glass roof and sunshine streaming through.
Location
Winter Garden, Harold Washington Library Center, South Loop, Chicago, IL, USA
Camera
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX85
Editor
VSCO
Golden hour sunlight streaming through the glass roof of a greenhouse filled with tropical plants.
Location
Garfield Park Conservatory, Chicago, IL, USA
Camera
iPhone 14 Pro Max
Editor
VSCO
The fire station on Chicago’s South Pier surrounded by blue water and blue sky.
Location
South Pier, Chicago, IL, USA
Camera
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX85
Editor
VSCO
A woman in a beige cap and an orange/green scarf partially covering her face taking a selfie in front of Chicago’s waterfront.
Location
South Pier, Chicago, IL, USA
Camera
iPhone 14 Pro Max
Editor
VSCO

Favorite under-the-hood things that I've added to my site lately:

1. ♿️ An accessibility menu! You can toggle light/dark mode, increase contrast, and reduce transparency! Still a work in progress.
2. 🌠 Native Markdown images that convert to something fancier with @eleventy magic.
3. 💡 An improved lightbox script. Still not a JS expert but slowly getting better.
4. 🌈 More gradients everywhere!

Windows 95

I made my handwriting into a font!

I’ve been using my iPad a lot more lately. For a while, I was mostly using it as an e-reader and notebook, but lately I’ve been playing games from the Kingdom Rush series and other Apple Arcade apps. I also recently discovered that there are a number of apps for creating your own fonts! Years ago, I read an article about a high school student who sent in his college application essay printed in his own handwriting, and making my own font has been on my bucket list ever since.

A sample of my handwriting as a font, including the pangram “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” in both uppercase and lowercase letters, as well as Latin characters and symbols.

I've changed servers ✨

gabriellewee@mas.to ➡️ gabrielle@front-end.social

Never actually did an post so here we go -

I'm a front-end developer currently working on Apple's marketing pages. I like to experiment with CSS and code animations! In my free time, I make jewelry, build keyboards, cuddle with my cat, and keep a couple hundred plants alive and thriving 🪴

Transferred all my domains away from Google Domains and removed Twitter from all my profiles. It’s been a weird day.

This message made me so happy 🥹 It’s nice to know that people still remember my Tumblr themes!

Sneak preview of the latest CSS-only thing I've been cooking up on Codepen 👀

A grey cat sitting on a fluffy cat tree surrounded by stuffed animals.
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Camera
iPhone 14 Pro Max
Editor
VSCO
A person’s hand holding out a small variegated banana tree in a pot, with a grey cat relaxing on a blanket in the background.
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Camera
iPhone 14 Pro Max
Editor
VSCO
Fog rolling over Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
Location
Fort Point National Historic Site, San Francisco, CA, USA
Camera
iPhone 14 Pro Max
Editor
VSCO

My claim to fame is that once upon a time I made a Tumblr theme that looked just like Facebook and Soulja Boy used it as his theme for a couple of months

We've come so far but I still can't select all unread emails on my phone 😔

A grey cat sitting on a sofa, wrapped in a grey and white fuzzy blanket.
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Camera
iPhone 14 Pro Max
Editor
VSCO

Why does the letter G look so weird?

I don’t know if it’s just me, but finding an aesthetically pleasing G is the bane of my existence. I’ve never liked the way G looks in any font — especially cursive G’s, those are the worst. Lowercase g’s don’t make much sense either, especially the looptail variety. I used to spend hours as a child rewriting my name over and over because I couldn’t get it to look like how I wanted it to look (still haven’t quite gotten it right).

I’m enjoying the relative quiet on my Mastodon feed. I think I burned out on all the other social media because there was just a constant flow of content all the time. It’s kind of nice to be able to reach the end of new posts every now and then.