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The thing about loss is that it just doesn't seem to end. It gets easier though. One day you wake you and you're feeling fine but one insignificant action somehow opens the gates for the sadness to creep in. And then that's it. The floodgates open and the tears come out.

If I thought the last months of 2020 were somewhat hard, January really proved me wrong. I do regret that I neglected my monthly bookmarks post. I've been wondering if I should start sharing the bookmarks individually like some folks do so that it doesn't pile up. I will think about it.

I'm sure I accidentally missed some bookmarks - a consequence of delaying sharing them. I hope that I can catch up on my missed bookmarks in my next post. It is also likely that I accidentally missed some posts from friends. Being online hasn't been a priority for me.

Take care friends.

Bookmarks related to tech or web development

• 11ty Rocks by Stephanie Eckles.
• Accessibility of Content Management Systems – what’s stopping us? by Marie Manandise.
• Inside the fight to rid the world of abusive stalkerware by Helena Pozniak.
• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names – With Examples by Tony Rogers.
• GIFS and prefers-reduced-motion by Chris Coyier.
• Parsing Markdown into an Automated Table of Contents by Lisi Linhart.
• Accessibility Acceptance Criteria.
• 7 Tips for Career Advancement and Personal Fulfillment by Kim Maida.
• Why it’s easy to hate Facebook but hard to leave by Heather Kelly.
• Time to Cache Up by Chris Burnell.
• Plaiceholder by Joe Bell.
• A Dynamically-Sized Sticky Sidebar with HTML and CSS by Ryan Mulligan.
• The impact of online gender-based violence on women in public life by Web Foundation.
• Weaving Web Accessibility With Usability by Uri Paz.
• So you wanna create an eco-friendly website by Eric Bailey.
• Boomarks #3 by Steve Messer.
• Stop Giving af and Start Writing More by Joel Hooks.
• The Rules of Margin Collapse by Joshua Comeau.
• Web Alamanc - Accessibility by Olu Niyi-Awosusi and Alex Tait.
• Facebook Derangement Syndrome by Heather Burns.
• Accessible icon links by Kitty Giraudel.
• SVG Path Editor
• The coming war on the hidden algorithms that trap people in poverty by Karen Hao.
• How To Use The Spotify API and Netlify Functions To Build A “Now Playing” Widget by Henry Desroches.
• Alt vs Figcaption by Elaina Natario.
• Not Much by Ire Aderinokun.
• Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine by Adrienne LaFrance.
• Conditional JavaScript, only download when it is appropriate to do so by Umar.
• Using Airtable as a database to store realtime messages by Srushtika Neelakantam.
• Webbish by Remy Sharp.
• Interface localisation: adapting text fields for RTL languages by Mitya Kuznetsov.
• Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF) by Frederick O’Brien.
• Small b blogging by Tom Critchlow.
• This used to be our playground by Simon Collison.
• Designing with Empathy: Don’t by Doc Parsons.
• Content-visibility and Accessible Semantics by Marcy Sutton.
• Are your anchor links accessible? by Amber Wilson.
• Algorithms Behaving Badly: 2020 Edition by The Markup Staff.
• He spent 10 days in jail after facial recognition software led to the arrest of the wrong man, lawsuit says by Anthony G. Attrino.
• Inside the Strange World of YouTube Thumbnails by Louise Matsakis.
• Eleventy-Parcel by Michelle Barker.
• Eleventy Plugin Template by Stephanie Eckles.
• Give your Eleventy Site Superpowers with Environment Variables by Andy Bell.
• Thoughts on screen readers and image recognition by Léonie Watson.
• How To Make Seamless Patterns by Yuan Chuan.
• How I turned my Goodreads data into a self-hosted website with Eleventy by Hidde de Vries.
• Architecting data in Eleventy by Sia Karamalegos.
• The Art of Building Real-life Components by Ahmad Shadeed.
• Distributed toxicity and the IndieWeb by Fluffy.
• Simple Social Image Resizer by Chris Johnson.
• Front-End Performance Checklist 2021 by Vitaly Friedman.
• The Surprising Things That CSS Can Animate by Will Boyd.
• Grids Part 2: Semantics by Sarah Higley.
• SVG Crop by Steve Dennett.
• An AI saw a cropped photo of AOC. It autocompleted her wearing a bikini by Karen Hao.
• Why Generation X will save the web by Heather Burns
• Authentication by Jeremy Keith.
• Uniwidth typefaces for interface design by Lisa Staudinger.
• Create a generative landing page & WebGL powered background animation by George Francis.
• Command Line Basics: A Short & Sweet Introduction by Tae'lur Alexis.
• Exposing.ai by by Adam Harvey and Jules LaPlace.
• How to Add Instagram Timeline To a NextJS Site by Monica Powell.
• Accessibility auditing and ego by Eric W Bailey.
• Finding an Element’s Nearest Relative Positioned Ancestor by Michelle Barker.
• Implement a Skip Link for Navigation-Heavy Sites by Ben Myers.
• Link Targets and 3.2.5 by Adrian Roselli.
• Improve the readability of the content on your website by Andy Bell.
• Create Responsive Image Effects With CSS Gradients And aspect-ratio by Stephanie Eckles.

Other bookmarks

• CoronaShock and Patriarchy.
• 80 percent of those who died of Covid-19 in Texas county jails were never convicted of a crime by Jerusalem Demsas.
• The Uncanny Valley of Culture by Damon.
• Hancock's former neighbour won Covid test kit work after WhatsApp message by Felicity Lawrence.
• The time has come to take the self out of self-care by Tanmoy Goswami.
• Reading list picks of 2020 by Steve Messer.
• The Real Reason Local Newspapers are Dying by Lyz.
• A beginner's guide to being an ally to trans people by Ted Ravago.
• The family with no fingerprints by Mir Sabbir.
• Trail cam footage of opossum and a skunk.
• Figuring Out What You Need To Flourish In The New Year by Nina Dearden.
• Compassionate action over empathy by Tatiana Mac.
• Lockdown ramifications.
• Why You Need to Stop Using These Words and Phrases by Rakshitha Arni Ravishankar.
• In Germany, your ex must destroy nude photos on request by Ben Knight.
• I Knew the Vessel Was Going to Have a Suicide Problem Years Before It Was Built by Audrey Wachs.
• Us vs them: the sinister techniques of ‘Othering’ – and how to avoid them by John A Powell.
• Twitter’s Most Infamous Stan Account Speaks by Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz.
• Far-right extremists take over UK land sales Facebook page by Alex Hern.
• In defense of disorder: on career, creativity, and professionalism by Chiara Amisola.
• How I recovered from imposter syndrome after changing career to software engineering by Frances Maxwell.
• Meet the Customer Service Reps for Disney and Airbnb Who Have to Pay to Talk to You by Ken Armstrong, Justin Elliott and Ariana Tobin.
• Hoarding Is All Too Familiar To Second Generation Brits. Here's Why by Deborah Yewande Bankole.
• Content moderation won’t stop the spread of disinformation. Here’s why by Jillian C. York
• The Lies Hollywood Tells About Little Girls by Mara Wilson.

The whole September I was quite overwhelmed with work and life. I remember that in September "The Social Dilemma" came out. I don't remember a lot more weirdly.

In October I managed to take two weeks off! Visited the Isle of Wight for the first time to celebrate my birthday. Last week I took some time off to study for my "Life in the UK" exam. I also took an English exam. And I passed both!! Now I have the basics to begin the process to apply for British citizenship.

Time is still blur. Some days are particularly hard. It is what it is.

Bookmarks related to tech or web development:

• Web accessibility checklist by Bruce Lawson.
• Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet by Tanya Basuarchive.
• Dyslexia friendly style guide by The British Dyslexia Association.
• Magnet Fingers by Charlotte Dann.
• SVG Line animation by Thea.
• A11y Coffee.
• Pocket pattern.
• How to make your VSCode sparkle by Monica Powell.
• How to audit your website on a budget.
• "Telling people to delete Facebook won’t fix the internet" by Adi Robertson.
• "How CSS Perspective Works" by Amit Sheen.
• "A framework for focusing your learning goals" by Sally Lait.
• "Tips on Making Sure Hidden Content is Accessible (or Not!)" by Scott Vinkle.
• Thread on Algorithms and Black Faces.
• "Data Privacy Exhaustion Is Real" by Simon Pitt.
• "Writing even more CSS with Accessibility in Mind, Part 2: Respecting user preferences" by Manuel Matuzovic.
• "The most useful accessibility testing tools and techniques" by Artem Sapegin.
• You've heard of tax havens. After Brexit, the UK could become a 'data haven' by Carissa Véliz.
• "Honor the ADA: Avoid Web Accessibility Quick-Fix Overlays".
• "Portals and giant carousels" by Jeremy Keith.
• "Why I Don’t Have Time For Your Coding Challenge" by Michelle Barker.

Other bookmarks:

• "Pom-poms and pig's bladders: the traditions of Germany's Black Forest – in pictures" by Mee-Lai Stone.
• "Candy-coloured photographs of LA's glorious hidden beauty by George Byrne" written by Katy Cowan.
• "Parents Got More Time Off. Then the Backlash Started." by Daisuke Wakabayashi and Sheera Frenkel.
• "How not to be an alien" By Frank Trentmann.
• Brexit/Ireland/Trade thread.
• "How Photo Retouching Worked Before Photoshop" by Jocelyn Sears.
• "Japan’s Lost Generation Is Still Jobless and Living With Their Parents" by Yoshiaki Nohara.
• "You Don’t Batch Cook When You’re Suicidal" by Jack.
• "The Overwhelming Racism Of COVID Coverage" by Indi Samarajiva.
• Buying Myself Back by Emily Ratajkowski.

The highlight of the month was: My article for Smashing Magazine went live!! Please read (and share if you think someone else would like it too)! 🤗

Bookmarks from August

Web development

• System UIcons by Corey Ginnivan.
• Transparent textures by Mike Hearn.
• Debugging HTML With Advanced CSS Selectors by Matthias Ott.
• Multiple drop-shadows on clipped element by Michelle Barker.
• Rainbow color selection by Louis Hoebregts.
• Drop-Shadow: The Underrated CSS Filter by Michelle Barker.
• Build vs Buy: Software Systems at Jurassic Park by Todd Gardner.
• Gradient angles in CSS by Nils Binder.
• Feature flags by Sunil Pai.
• Figuring out how to mark up a figure by Sebastian Greger.
• Convert HTML to Accessible PDF by Nick Colley.
• a11y is web accessibility by Eric W Bailey.
• Generative art by Ilithya.
• a11y-tests.css by Manuel Matuzovic.
• smoothscroll.css by Zach Leatherman.
• The difference between aria-label and aria-labelledby by Léonie Watson.
• Here’s what I didn’t know about “content” by Manuel Matuzovic.
• Incremental progress by Fluffy.
• Spirited Away CSS Illustration by Inès.
• RolandMC-500.css by Sarah Fossheim.
• Web History by Jay Hoffmann.
• Take Me On by Adam Kuhn.

Nice things on personal websites

• Adding Structured Book Data to My Blog Posts by Ana Ulin.
• Gratitude by Amberley Romo.
• My First Homebrew Website Club Meeting by James Gallagher.
• Being OK With Not Being Extraordinary by Tiffany Matthé.
• This website is killing the planet by Steve Messer.
• Personal Portfolio Refresh by Lisi Linhart.

Others

• A Permanent Nightmare’: Pinterest Moderators Fight to Keep Horrifying Content Off the Platform by Sarah Emerson.
• Structural Racism and it's Influence on GPs/Dermatologist by Harriet.
• The Pandemic Isn’t Forcing Moms Out of the Workforce — Dads Are by Jessica Valenti.
• You want people to do the right thing? Save them the guilt trip by Claudia R Schneider.
• Millennials Slammed by Second Financial Crisis Fall Even Further Behind by Janet Adamy.
• The Mesmerizing Geometry of Malaysia’s Most Complex Cakes by Samantha Chong.
• How social justice slideshows took over Instagram by Terry Nguyen.
• Ubisoft's #MeToo Reckoning, Two Months Later by Ethan Gach and Ash Parrish.
• When Polaroid Workers Fought Apartheid by Michael McCanne.
• Facebook algorithm found to 'actively promote' Holocaust denial by Mark Townsend.
• So you want to build antiracist teams? by Erica Stanley.
• A philosopher accused of sexual harassment started a company to advise on business ethics by Olivia Goldhill.
• On all that fuckery by Kat Fukui.
• A Message To TikTok Parents Who Use My Face To Make Their Kids Cry by Melissa Blake.
• Harassers are nice to me, and probably to you by Sarah Milstein.
• Britain can’t afford to miss this chance to clean up the web by Salma Shah. (Note: I didn't actually read this one because I don't have a subscription.)
• Activists and tech companies met to talk about online violence against women: here are the takeaways.
• Unconsenting Media.

Tweets

• What trauma sometimes is.
• Productivity Anxiety by Dani Donovan.
• Google sheets trick.
• On not being social.
• Edinburgh Samoyed Rescue.
• How the email finds me.
• Malicious compliance.
• Relatable alligator.
• On authors.
• Two types of dogs.

And now, in all honesty, my article was indeed the highlight of the month. Mostly because I struggled a lot with my mental health this past month. Maybe it is because I read a lot of unhappy things (my "others" section is nightmare fuel) but I can't help it. I can't just escape. Just a hopeless, powerless and anxious month. Hopefully this September I... feel better.

PS.: I am almost certain I missed some links here of awesome stuff friends did. I'm sorry... My brain isn't fully here recently.

I've been thinking about this bookmark page especially because styling wise it is incomplete and a bit ugly and one day someone will call me out. But that isn't the only thing I've been thinking about: all those days (almost all this year) when I thought that I've done nothing for myself or my career I like to come to my bookmarks page and scroll. The work in the links that I collect here wasn't done by me, but they were learned by me and that is progress and accomplishment. All these people contributed to expanding my views and to my growth. I'm proud of my small archive.

Bookmarks from July

Web development/tech related content

• Check your privacy privilege. by Heather Burns.
• Discrimination charges at Pinterest reveal a hidden Silicon Valley hiring problem by Katharine Schwab.
• Training and resources to help make your organisation more inclusive by Monzo.
• Chronicles of 2020 by Bea.
• Clipped Image Reveal on Hover by Katherine Kato.
• Performance - CSS Painting vs. CSS Houdini Paint API by Lisi Linhart.
• Accessibility for Product Managers by Peter van Grieken.
• Video Accessibility Demo by Paul J. Adam.
• Writing Cleaner CSS Transitions by Joe Bell.
• Accessibility Dont’s, Learn From Basic Mistakes in Web Design by Adam Laki.
• Style Stage by Stephanie Eckles.
• From Indieweb Monolith to Microservices by Vincent Pickering.
• Does my site deserve recognition? by Adrian Roselli.
• Float labels are problematic by Adam Silver.
• Web Accessibility Checklist by Bruce Lawson.
• Easings Are Rad by Adam Argyle.
• Feature Toggles (aka Feature Flags) by Pete Hodgson.
• Position: absolute by Julia Evans.
• You don’t need a media query for that: #1 Inline content separators by Mandy Michael.
• From Gatsby to Eleventy: Choosing a Static Site Generator for a Personal Site by Michelle Barker.
• Challenges and opportunities: Using the GOV.UK Prototype Kit for Back Office systems by Claudia Hopkins.
• Understanding CSS Multiple Backgrounds by Ahmad Shadeed.
• 7 Ways to make your Tweets more Accessible by Lindsey.
• Google Ad Portal Equated “Black Girls” with Porn by Leon Yin and Aaron Sankin.
• Building a Linktree in Webflow | Episode 2 of Webflow 101 by Sara Brunettini.
• The story of the Americans with Disabilities Act is all about bridges by Vilissa Thompson and David J. Johns.
• Doodle place by Lingdong Huang.
• It’s Good To Talk: Thoughts And Feelings On Creative Wellness by Jhey Tompkins.
• CS Visualized: CORS by Lydia Hallie.
• Moms in Tech Facebook group splintering over allegations of racism by Zoe Schiffer.
• Single div CSS cross stitch by Lynn Fisher.
• Build a dashboard with CUBE CSS by Andy Bell.
• Fluid Images in a Variable Proportion Layout by Lari Maza.
• 1-Line Layouts by Una.
• Single div colour wheel by Michelle Barker.
• WordPress is fine for tech blogging by Melissa McEwen.
• Piccalilli Newsletter - Issue #50 by Andy Bell.
• Webwaste by Gerry McGovern.
• Bookshelf by Gonçalo Morais.

Others

• Wave or waive game.
• I'm Scared to Learn New Things by John Paul Brammer.
• You can’t beat an unwinnable game, but you can break it by Joe Veix.
• Their tube.
• Parisian Baguette by Josh Nesbitt.

Tweets

• Representation of twitter arguments.
• Joke about capitalism, corona and the government.
• Cancel culture always existed for women.
• When you spend $100 on your cat.
• Sick and tired of the "I'm not a robot".
• Cat eating.
• For when we want to feel better about ourselves.
• Cat cube.
• Beautiful portfolio items.

The news are quiet now and it is on purpose. There's protests happening. There's things happening. They just aren't showing it anymore. #BlackLivesMatter

I can't believe that I also have to say this but... wear a mask!

My bookmark list was getting big so here's a couple of things I've saved during May and June 2020.

Bookmarks from the last couple of months

Web development/tech related content

• Build your own analytics with Netlify Functions by Oliver Phillips.
• Screen readers and cookie consents by Léonie Watson.
• Drawing garden.
• Modern CSS Solutions by Stephanie Eckles.
• Lazy load embedded YouTube videos by Chris Coyier.
• Today Cassey Learned by Cassey Lottman.
• #20 HTMHell special: close buttons by Manuel Matuzović.
• Expedia Accessibility Guidelines (ExAG).
• Snapshot Paper - Facial Recognition Technology.
• CSS Grid: Newspaper Layout by Olivia Ng.
• Most tech content is bullshit by Aleksandra Sikora.
• Monica's inspiration gallery.
• Most tech content is bullshit by Aleksandra Sikora.
• Optimizing keyboard navigation using tabindex and ARIA by Sara Soueidan.
• Pure CSS halftone portrait from jpg source by Ana Tudor.
• CSS Casio keyboard by Sarah Fossheim.
• New media queries you need to know by Kristofer Selbekk.
• The small web by Parimal Satyal.
• Border radius playground by Jhey.
• Where did the focus go by Amber Wilson.
• When frontend means full stack by Chris Coyier.
• Why I Don’t Believe in Empathic Design by Don Norman.
• Your blog doesn’t need a JavaScript framework by Iain Bean.
• Introduction to screen readers using VoiceOver.
• Baseline Rules for Scrollbar Usability by Adrian Roselli.
• Aligning Logo Images in CSS by Ahmad Shadeed.
• Exploring Art Direction With Gatsby-Image by Monica Powell.
• Why you should have a blog (and write in it) by Leticia Portella.
• 11ty: Generate Twitter cards automatically by Stefan Baumgartner.

Others

• The Problem Isn’t Zoom Fatigue — It’s Mourning Life as We Knew It.
• Common beginner mistakes when calling out individuals and organisations who are explicitly and repeatedly saying racist shit
• Video archive of police abuse
• What being difficult to work with actually means