I'm pretty introverted both online and offline but I hope that if you see me favorite or boosting your posts, that's me trying my best to engage! I love you all 🫶🏼
My favorite hobby is tinkering with my website and adding little updates here and there. Just added a CSS-only progress bar to my blog posts! Chrome and Edge only (for now) 🛸
![Hero image showing Eggplant with Minced Pork](/static/images/recipes/built/LFfV_4Qday-100.webp)
Chinese eggplant is one of my favorite things to cook. This recipe is something I know by heart and can cook quickly on a weeknight when I need food for today and leftovers for tomorrow’s lunch. I love adding shiitaki mushrooms to the mix to add some extra vegetables and umami!
![Hero image showing Cucumber Salad](/static/images/recipes/built/ZUCNbuEuuy-100.webp)
I’ve been making this spicy and refreshing cucumber salad every week since the weather started to warm up. It’s easy to prepare and goes well with all kinds of food. I mainly make it as a side dish for Asian-style meals but have also loved adding this on top of crackers and creamy Brie cheese.
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!
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.](/static/images/posts/built/K2hYjsHrfw-100.webp)
I've changed servers ✨
gabriellewee@mas.to ➡️ gabrielle@front-end.social
Never actually did an #introduction 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.