Author: Cynthia Ng

Presentation: How to stay web accessible: Applying WCAG 2.1 & 2.2

This was presented at Code4libBC 2025. I knew what was added in WCAG 2.1 and 2.2 generally, but hadn’t yet looked at how they apply in a practical way yet, so it was a great opportunity to brush up my web accessibility knowledge. Continue reading “Presentation: How to stay web accessible: Applying WCAG 2.1 & 2.2”

Reflection: Second half of my seventh year at GitLab and doing Strategy & Operations for Product (and Engineering)

This week is my seventh anniversary at GitLab, and it’s still a little hard to believe. At this point, there are 82 people who started before me and are still at the company. That’s actually pretty good, 7 years later, when there were about 275 people when I started, so about a third are still here.

If you want to know what happened in the first half of the year, check out my previous reflection post. Continue reading “Reflection: Second half of my seventh year at GitLab and doing Strategy & Operations for Product (and Engineering)”

Moving from Literal (not Goodreads) to The Story Graph

At couple of years ago, when I was looking for a Goodreads alternative, one of my coworkers recommended Literal.club. However, I’ve found it a bit buggy (doesn’t always properly mark something read, search can’t find the exact book I’m looking for even though I know it exists in the system, that sort of thing). I was hoping it would improve, but sadly, I’m still struggling to use it. So I decided to move over to TheStoryGraph after reading about it in a CBC article.

One of the really nice things about TheStoryGraph is that you can import your book data from elsewhere. However, the importer is meant specifically for Goodreads. Of course, not everyone wanting to move over is on Goodreads right now (like myself). So here’s a short post about how to do it. Continue reading “Moving from Literal (not Goodreads) to The Story Graph”