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May bookmarks - BLM

Published on the 17th June 2020
Black Lives Matter.

In today's age with today's resources there is no excuse not to educate yourself and see how we're in a racist society.

Follow the folks who talk about racial injustice. Think how the technology we're building is tracking and tracing everyone who is protesting. Learn about data regulations. Learn the tricks of the media.

Here's a couple of things I think everyone should see. However, I urge you all to please diversify the feeds you consume.
Tech bookmarks can wait another month. This is what matters.
April Bookmarks

Published on the 6th May 2020
I don't remember much from this last month. All I remember is trying not to be on my computer and just look at the birds that come to the garden. So this will be a very short blog post. A jotting!!!!

Bookmarks from April

Web development/tech related content
- @aimee.gm/responsive
- Front-end Bookmarks by Manuel Matuzović.
- 98.css by Jordan Scales.
- Mozilla Accessibility.
- BEM naming cheat sheet by 9elements.
Not exactly web development related
- Explorable Explanations.
- Gears by Bartosz Ciechanowski.
Miscellaneous

Funny or cute or happy or uplifting content etc.
March bookmarks

Published on the 1st April 2020
March! What a concept, huh?

Bookmarks from March

Web development/tech related content
- ebook all about Animation in Design Systems - by Val Head.
- Creative Coding Essentials - by Tim Rodenbröker.
- A Complete Guide to calc() in CSS - by Chris Coyier.
- Why the web needs to work for women and girls.
- Don’t call it a comeback. I been here for years. - by Cameron Moll.
- Accessible HTML Elements. - by Amber Wilson.
- Playing With Particles Using the Web Animations API. - by Louis Hoebregts.
- Favicons support emojis.
- The Complete AEA DC 2019 Now Online
- Why videos on GOV.UK use the YouTube video player
- Fastest Browser Based WebP Converter
- Let me be your glue. - by Sush Kelly.
- I mentor people, because I want to give them the opportunities I didn’t have. - by Georgie Luhur Cooke.
- Improve Video Accessibility with Captions. - by Gift Egwuenu.
- More accessible defaults, please! - by Hidde de Vries.
- 2020, the year of the interactive blog post. - by John Otander.
Not exactly web development related
- Youtube shortcuts (I haven't tried them myself).
- Education Links - by Andy Bell.
- Help with COVID-19.
- Education Links - by Andy Bell.
Miscellaneous

Funny or cute or happy or uplifting content etc.
- Cats!
Made me think

Content warning: This section might include content that isn't uplifting and happy but rather thoughts that stayed with me.
- A lawsuit that is missremembered.
- Making a living in creative tech.
- What Have I Got to Be Depressed About? - by Robin Craze.
- Upskirting by paparazzi.
- Politics in the United States.
- Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect. - by Jon Schuppe.
February bookmarks

Published on the 3rd March 2020
I didn't realise February was over until today!!!

Bookmarks from February

Web development/tech related content
- a11y.css - by Gaël Poupard.
- We’re Banning Facial Recognition. We’re Missing the Point. - by Bruce Schneier.
- TIL the ruby tag - by Robb Owen.
- Gatsby Starter Book - by Sara Vieira.
- Expressive Design Systems - by Yesenia Perez-Cruz.
- Images with a consistent surface area - by Piper Haywood.
- Pulling data from websites into Google Sheets - by Nick Colley.
- The Ghost of Stagnation - by Alejandra Villa.
- Image masks: Portraits - by Ruth John.
- #16 alt, no wait…, aria-label, no wait…, alt - by Michael "Spell" Spellacy.
- Guerilla design systems. - by Laura Gonzalez.
- Accessibility for Vestibular Disorders: How My Temporary Disability Changed My Perspective - by Facundo Corradini.
- Reading recommendations: Animation on the web and vestibular disorders - by Manuel Matuzović.
- Lesser-known CSS properties in GIFs - by Pavel Laptev.
- A Complete Guide to Links and Buttons - by CSS Tricks.
- What forces layout / reflow - by Paul Irish.
- While You Weren’t Looking, CSS Gradients Got Better - by Ana Tudor.
- Carousel Concepts - by W3C.
- Now you know - by Christopher Neugebauer.
- Keeping it simple with CSS that scales - by Andy Bell.
- font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums - by Sebastian De Deyne.
- Frend - by frend.co.
- Merry-Go-Round - by Estelle Weyl.
- Typographic grid layouts - by Michelle Barker.
- Accordions Are Not Always the Answer for Complex Content on Desktops - by Hoa Loranger.
- Fixed Headers and Jump Links? The Solution is scroll-margin-top - by Chris Coyier.
- Why 543 KB keep me up at night - by Manuel Matuzovic.
- HTML: The Inaccessible Parts - by Dave Rupert.
Not exactly web development related
- Stop Blaming History for Your All-White, All-Male Movie - by Aisha Harris.
- Very Responsive Typography with Variable Fonts - by Mandy Michael.
- Learning from ‘Bad’ Writing - by Dr Lucy Allen-Goss.
- PSA on "unravel thread tools"
- You'll Never See the Iconic Photo of the 'Afghan Girl' the Same Way Again - by Ribhu.
- Being Your Selves: Identity R&D on alt Twitter - by Aaron Z. Lewis.
- Sharing my salary publicly - by Nienke Dekker.
- Filter out male privilege, and the web can be a ghost town - by Mark Wilson.
- Top 10 Pro-tips for Working Remotely - by Carie Fisher.
- We don't need to look real on social media - by Rachel Charlene Lewis.
Miscellaneous

Funny or cute or happy or uplifting content etc.
- They were just trying to help.
- Cool sound.
Made me think

Content warning: This section might include content that isn't uplifting and happy but rather thoughts that stayed with me.
- On Facebook, anti-vaxxers urged a mom not to give her son Tamiflu. He later died. - By Brandy Zadrozny.
January bookmarks

Published on the 31st January 2020
The longest month of the year is finally over! The days are getting longer and plans are starting to look aligned.

Bookmarks from January

Web development/tech related content
- The Comprehensive Guide to Speaking at Technology Conferences in 2020 - by Karl Hughes.
- It’s 2019 and I Still Make Websites with my Bare Hands - by Matt Holt.
- Changing your name is a hard unsolved problem in Computer Science - by Penelope Phippen.
- Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word] - by Vitaly Friedman.
- A collection of sorting algorithms in JavaScript - by Kadi Kraman.
- Is your browser a polyglot? - by Chen Hui Jing.
- How Does HTML Microdata Help With Accessibility? - by Scott Vinkle.
- CSS pro tip for mac users: always show scroll bars in macOS. - by Manuel Matuzovic.
- "There Is No Year" Album Cover - by Henry Desroches.
- Training people to do accessibility reviews - by Beverley Newing.
- Speaker Bios - by Heidi Waterhouse.
- The HTML Handbook - by Flavio Copes.
- LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
- CSS can check for a font installed locally before fetching it remotely - by Adam Argyle.
- Optimising SVGs for the Web - by Michelle Barker.
- The CSS Cascade - by Amelia Wattenberger.
Not exactly web development related
- Failure To Launch: When Beauty Fades - by Elizabeth Wurtzel.
- We Need to Talk About Digital Blackface in Reaction GIFs - by Lauren Michele Jackson.
- Burnout Is About Your Workplace, Not Your People - by Jennifer Moss.
- Henry VIII’s Carbon Footprint - by Josh Jackman.
- A viral tweet is claiming that ibuprofen can lessen menstrual flow, and gynecologists say the method actually works - by Shira Feder.
Miscellaneous

Funny or cute or happy or uplifting content etc.
Made me think

Content warning: This section might include tweets that aren't uplifting and happy but rather thoughts that stayed with me.
- "How to infantilize an entire generation" - oh no.