April was an interesting month. This year hasn't been great for me because, for the first time, I really can't control my anxiety. Everything I can't control have been draining me in a way that I never experienced before. Those close to me know I've been struggling a lot daily and it sucks. This month I took nearly two weeks off from work and it made me realise how much anxiety I have on a normal day. While I was on holidays I barely used social media or the news and to no one's surprise, my anxiety went down by a lot. And guess what? I didn't miss out much on tech. Was a new shiny tech thing out? Cool, I will look at it when and if I need it.
Bookmarks from April
Non-tech articles
- I am not always very attached to being alive - by Anna Borges
- EU bans UK's most-used pesticide over health and environment fears - by Damian Carrington
- You may hate metrics. But they’re making journalism better - by Chris Moran
- Attacks by White Extremists Are Growing. So Are Their Connections. - By Weiyi Cai and Simone Landon
- Nordic walking: a pilgrims’ route from Oslo to Trondheim - by Phoebe Smith
- The Gentle Side of Twitch - by Nicole Carpenter
- The Devastating Consequences of Being Poor in the Digital Age - by Mary Madden
- Creative types - by Adobe Create P.S.: mine was "the dreamer"
- My sexual assault case was dropped when I refused to give police my phone - by Anonymous
Tech related content
- Tweet showing how the page load might cost you a lot of money when using roaming abroad - by Harry Roberts
- Trainers. - by Ethan Marcotte
- You probably don't need that hip web framework - by Owen Williams
- A Professional Development Framework for Design - by Andy Thornton
- Some possible career goals - by Julia Evans
- Break out of the echo chamber - by Andy Bell
- Macaroni art simulator - by Neal Agarwal
- Some Unsolicited Blogging Advice - by Dave Rupert
- Improving accessibility with accessibility acceptance criteria - by Paul Hayes
- Twitter without tracking - by Remy Sharp
- Personal Blogs: Don't Call it a comeback! - by Dan Vega
- Auditing My Own Site For Accessibility - by Nic
- Color accessibility: tools and resources to help you design inclusive products - by Stéphanie Walter
- Design Systems - by Figma
- 12 Tips for More Accessible React Apps (Slides, React Finland 2019) - by Manuel Matuzović
- I’m quitting engineering: An exit interview - Olga Dominguez
- April 2019 Weblog: Giving the Web Its Spirit Back - by Jay Hoffmann
- Monthly Digest & Bookmarks — April 2019 - by Johann Schopplich
– Owen WilliamsBut, this has all made me wonder: has the modern stack killed experimentation, and shipping bad ideas? Do weird experiments and fun ideas die on the floor, tangled in complexity, more often now? I'd hazard a guess that the answer is yes, and that you should probably skip that hipster framework—for now—as well. Just ship something instead.
Things that made me smile one way or another
I need to re-think this section. I really see and save a lot of memes per month on Instagram and TikTok. Not sure if all memes are worth sharing but I'd like this to be a "interesting/wholesome" section.