Chee Aun 🤔

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Chee Aun 🤔

@cheeaun

Product Engineer. Currently on a career break since July '22. I follow folks via (private) lists. 🐘 mastodon.social/@cheeaun 🦋 @cheeaun.com

Singapore

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Joined December 2006

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@cheeaun
Oct 15, 2022
So I levelled up & made a 3D otter designed by the SG TraceTogether team. It's traced from the 2D art, looks almost the same & made with @splinetool Here's a web page showing its 3D-ness my.spline.design/otter-98d40d96… Had a lot of fun designing this 🤩
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@cheeaun
Jul 30, 2025
I just came up with an idea, and now my phone has a Liquid-Glass-ified iPhone 13 mini teardown wallpaper 😆 Original wallpaper from iFixit: ifixit.com/News/53157/iph…
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@cheeaun
Jul 27, 2024
Thoroughly enjoyed watching this podcast interview with John Resig on Syntax syntax.fm/show/800/why-t… #WebDev #jQuery
Why the jQuery Creator Uses React and Typescript - John Resig - Syntax #800
From syntax.fm
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@cheeaun
Jul 11, 2024
omg what happened to @googlemaps markers? #GoogleMaps
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@cheeaun
Jul 9, 2024
I know for a long time that emojis are complicated. So, I appreciate it when folks really try to explain why github.com/slevithan/emoj… Attached screenshot shows a part of the whole explanation that is enough for some folks to flip tables. #emojis
$ES2018 added support for matching Unicode properties in regular expressions with \p{…}, so you might think this problem is now trivial, given that the list of supported properties includes Emoji, Emoji_Presentation, Emoji_Modifier, Emoji_Modifier_Base, Emoji_Component, and Extended_Pictographic. But no. On their own, none of these are what you want. ES2024 added support for matching multicharacter Unicode properties of strings with \p{…}, so you might think one of the new properties Basic_Emoji, Emoji_Keycap_Sequence, RGI_Emoji_Modifier_Sequence, RGI_Emoji_Flag_Sequence, RGI_Emoji_Tag_Sequence, RGI_Emoji_ZWJ_Sequence, or RGI_Emoji will do the trick. Well, kind of. RGI_Emoji indeed seems like what we want, but unfortunately, some common-sense and broadly-supported emoji are not officially in the "RGI" (Recommended for General Interchange) list. And even more frustratingly, some emoji are commonly used in an underqualified or overqualified way (by including or excluding certain invis...$