Jen Chan

New media artist turned Software Developer 👻 | Director at Toronto JS

Toronto, ON Joined on May 31, 2017 http://jenchan.biz

Education

MFA in Art Video Syracuse University 2013 😂

Work

Lead Software Engineer at Thomson Reuters

web components

In this order:
Javascript/Typescript
Design Systems
CI/CD
Python 3
Bash
CI/CD

art projects, code tests, exercises, scribbling, diagrams

shop talk

46 posts published

393 comments written

14 tags followed

Jen Chan

Mar 1

Closing, Cloning, or Disabling the Shadow DOM

#healthydebate #webcomponents #fastdesign

6 min read

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Jen Chan

Dec 5 '22

Maintaining a Healthy-Enough Mindset through Uncertainty

#mentalhealth #impostersyndrome #career #growth

5 min read

Jen Chan

Nov 23 '22

Build Time, Runtime, Execution time... What "time" is it in Javascript?

#webperf #javascript #intermediate #webdev

5 min read

Jen Chan

Oct 22 '22

Things Strong Developers Do That Drive Their Team Crazy

#career #senior #intermediate #productivity

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4 min read

Jen Chan

Sep 6 '22

Ask Good Questions; Get Unblocked Faster

#discuss #productivity

4 min read

Jen Chan

Mar 6 '22

On Levelling Up

#shecoded #career #intermediate #senior

6 min read

Jen Chan

Oct 30 '21

Git Rebase for Preventing Merge Commits

#showdev #git #productivity

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6 min read

Jen Chan

Sep 20 '21

Storybook and Chromatic for Visual Regression Testing

#showdev #react #testing #storybook

6 min read

Jen Chan

Sep 3 '21

Unit Testing Components in Storybook

#showdev #frontend #react #testing

5 min read

Jen Chan

Mar 5 '21

"How good am I?" Reflections on 5th year designer-developer doldrums

#shecoded #career

3 min read

Jen Chan

Jul 21 '20

Differential Loading for Legacy Browser Support in Angular 9

#typescript #javascript #angular #webperf

3 min read

Jen Chan

Jun 29 '20

A Stab at Performance Testing with Intersection Observer and Scroll events

#testing #beginners #webperf #javascript

5 min read

Jen Chan

Jun 7 '20

How to be anti-racist , according to Black folks who work in tech

#blacklivesmatter #shecoded

1 min read

Jen Chan

May 9 '20

On Being Wrong

#career #productivity

3 min read

Jen Chan

May 6 '20

Running IE 11 with VirtualBox on Mac

#testing #virtualmachine

3 min read

Jen Chan

Apr 28 '20

Challenge: Cross-browser testing for IE11 and IE Edge on Mac for free

#showdev #webdev #devops #aws

5 min read

Jen Chan

Mar 8 '20

What is helpful, if you want to help

#shecoded #shecodedally

5 min read

Jen Chan

Feb 10 '20

How To Plan Scalable CSS for Large Projects?

#discuss #css #productivity

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5 min read

Jen Chan

Feb 4 '20

What are you going to do if/when your position gets automated?

#discuss #devdiscuss #career

1 min read

Jen Chan

Feb 2 '20

Discuss: When Is It Ok To Mutate?

#discuss #javascript #react #angular

3 min read

Jen Chan

Dec 17 '19

First Impressions: learning Angular after React/Redux

#react #angular #beginners

103

5 min read

Jen Chan

Dec 7 '19

JS Array Manipulation Quirks

#javascript #beginners

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Jen Chan

Nov 30 '19

How I Approach Whiteboard Interviews

#showdev #beginners #career

4 min read

Jen Chan

Nov 15 '19

Discuss: React Hooks and Life After the Container-Component Pattern

#discuss #react #beginners #javascript

3 min read

Jen Chan

Aug 20 '19

On Being Fired

#career #beginners #failure

2 min read

Jen Chan

Aug 14 '19

Approachable Post-Termination Mindsets

#career #failure #beginners

1 min read

Jen Chan

May 2 '19

A laundry list of things I never heard of from bootcamp

#discuss #beginners #career

2 min read

Jen Chan

Mar 18 '19

What's a song that illustrates your coding journey?

#discuss #random

1 min read

Jen Chan

Mar 11 '19

I'm jen chan, and I support people who don't have my opportunities.

#shecodedally #a11y

1 min read

Jen Chan

Mar 9 '19

Watching the future of coding accelerate into a simulated black hole

#shecoded #career #oped #webdev

6 min read

Jen Chan

Mar 2 '19

Hack or maybe not: "Deleting" master when it gets too big

#todayilearned #git #discuss #productivity

2 min read

Jen Chan

Feb 26 '19

What I Learned From Trying To Be a Team Player For 2 Years

#career #webdev #beginners #wishiknew

4 min read

Jen Chan

Feb 21 '19

Removing Accidentally Committed Files From Remote History

#showdev #git #beginners #learningmoment

3 min read

Jen Chan

Feb 13 '19

Imposter Syndrome in Diagrams

#beginners #impostersyndrome

1 min read

Jen Chan

Feb 8 '19

Slid on ice, body-slammed my new Macbook Air. What should I check for?

#help #discuss #hardware #mac

6 min read

Jen Chan

Jan 18 '19

Sh*tpost: can we stop saying "syntactic sugar"?

#discuss #beginners #javascript #unpopularopinion

2 min read

Jen Chan

Jan 10 '19

What should production CSS look like? Share your layout-to-web workflow

#discuss #beginners #css #sass

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Jen Chan

Oct 17 '18

Hastily Deploying a Node App on NearlyFreeSpeech.net (Mac OS)

#showdev #deploy #beginners #webdev

2 min read

Jen Chan

Oct 1 '18

Dumb Breakthrough moment: JSON Object Array Access

#beginners #javascript #json

1 min read

Jen Chan

Sep 22 '18

How to start contributing to open source as a junior or newbie?

#discuss #beginners

1 min read

Jen Chan

Apr 9 '18

What I learned from only using Select in PostgreSQL

#beginners #debugging #sql #productivity

4 min read

Jen Chan

Apr 5 '18

When you realize you’re at the bottom of a very steep gradient.

#career #beginners #dev

2 min read

Jen Chan

Mar 2 '18

Well hey, I'm still coding.

#shecoded

1 min read

Jen Chan

Dec 28 '17

5 Unusual Test Questions I Got While Interviewing for Web Dev Roles

#softwaredev #javascript #beginners #career

3 min read

Jen Chan

Dec 12 '17

What I Learned From Not Planning A Web App (from start to finish)

#node #heroku #productivity #javascript

5 min read

Jen Chan

May 31 '17

Hi, I'm jen chan

#introductions

1 min read

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