Author
Vin Lim
Founder, Astralab
Vin Lim is the founder of Astralab and Arteesan, with over a decade of software engineering experience. A Google Developer Expert, he has partnered with Google for over ten years to advocate web technology, speaking at conferences across the Asia-Pacific, running community workshops, and mentoring founders. Much of his work is on AI agents and the orchestration that keeps them reliable, built on the open web standards he helps shape.
Writing
An AI agent is not a prompt: what production takes
We build AI agents for a living, including Auto Browser. The architecture that separates an agent that demos from one that holds up: the loop, the decision channel, cost, isolation, and safety, with the numbers.
What it takes to build Sharia-compliant digital assets
Notes from a Kuala Lumpur roundtable on the future of Shari'a-compliant digital assets, from the team that architected Arteesan, a blockchain-backed art platform exploring tokenisation.
What actually makes a prompt work in production
Most prompt advice is decoration. The patterns that actually change a model's behaviour are concrete: thresholds over adjectives, worked examples good and bad, named failure modes, enforced output formats, and where each instruction sits.
Arteesan is the official digital partner of CIMB Artober 2025
Arteesan, the platform our team architected, was the official digital partner of Malaysia's largest art exhibition: more than 30 galleries and over 100 artists, with AR experiences on the floor and a blockchain-backed provenance layer underneath.
Why the cheapest time to fix a wrong data model is right before launch
A rename or schema fix feels risky, but the risk comes from only two forces: live traffic and existing data. Before launch you have neither, so the fix is one migration and a refactor, and the window is about to close.
How to audit digital UX with evidence, not opinion
Turning "this feels off" into cited, prioritised findings, using Nielsen's heuristics, WCAG 2.2, and the Laws of UX, with a scoring rubric and the numbers that prove why it matters.
Superior UX Minimal Effort With Native Input Type
How native HTML input types deliver better form UX and cross-browser consistency with almost no extra code.