Interview Session with Hui Jing

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Starts as a national team basketball player and moves into web work by building an association site using inspect element to copy and patch together designs and advice from Google, then learns content management systems and keeps a blog documenting exact bugs and fixes. Local meetup recordings by engineers.sg that archives every talk provide video clips used for CFPs, leading to a first full‑length talk in Hong Kong and a cascade of conference invitations and paid travel.

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1. 0:00Basketball to web dev
2. 1:47Learning CMS by accident
3. 2:52Personal blog for fixes
4. 3:58Writing to public speaking
5. 6:05Chinese typography interest
6. 8:11Local language content value
7. 9:16Still playing basketball

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