This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Nic Chan, whose blog can be found at nicchan.me. Hi, my name is Nic Chan! I'm a web developer and hobbyist artist who lives in Hong Kong. It's pretty funny, depending on who you ask, the audience is shocked to hear about my secret other life, since I typically keep these identities very separate. If I'm not tinkering with websites or frantically mixing paint, you might find me shitposting on Mastodon, sweating through the Hong Kong summers or volunteering at the cat shelter. Despite growing up on the internet, I had never intended to be a web developer. I studied Fine Arts at a small liberal arts college in California, where I solidified a vaguely Californian accent that haunts me till this day. I entered the working world hoping to start a career that would somehow be arts related, but quickly decided that it wasn't for me. The art world, especially at higher levels, feels very inauthentic and performative in a way that left me constantly tired.