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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.

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.

• Cat calling on TikTok.
• This recipe disaster.
• This miscommunication.
• This person living my dream of having a catio.
• "My butthole has been a location on Facebook since 2012 and I can't get it removed."
• No refunds because of seaguls.
• Calvin Klein perfume 'big hit' with Banham Zoo's big cats

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.

My last bookmark post was in July 2019 and that is quite telling of how things didn't go so well last year for me. At the time, I told myself that I would try to do a bookmark post every month and it all came crashing down around that time. It was in September that I think that I officially burned out. So actually, this will not be a very long collection: I wasn't browsing or reading much and I spent a lot of time offline.

Bookmarks from August to December 2019

Web development/tech related content

• Normalizing Maternity in Tech - by Erika Heidi.
• Questions for our First 1:1 - by Lara Hogan.
• Sub-pixel rendering and borders - by Hui Jing.
• What Tumblr Taught Me About Accessibility - by Nic Chan.
• Accessibility and web performance are not features, they’re the baseline - by Robin Rendle.
• Web Accessibility Overlays Don't Work - by Karl Groves.
• Idea Shredder - by Ruth John.
• I Visited 47 Sites. Hundreds of Trackers Followed Me. - by Farhad Manjoo.
• Web Accessibility Overlays Don't Work - by Karl Groves.
• How to Accessibly Split Text - by Michelle Barker.
• The Weight of the WWWorld is Up to Us by Patty Toland - by Jeremy Keith.
• Advice for Technical Writing - by Chris Coyier.
• CSS Style Guides
• Deepfakes could anonymize people in videos while keeping their personality - by Karen Hao.
• A love letter to my website
• Apology to Chelsey Rhodes - by Cari Caldwell.
• Generative art, creative code, and the world around us! - by Ruth John and Tim Holman.
• Paint order of SVG elements.
• What Makes a Mid-Level Developer? - by Amber Wilson
• Beyond automatic accessibility testing: 6 things I check on every website I build - by Manuel Matuzovic.
• Farting Rhino - by Sarah Drasner.
• The Career Advice I Wish I Had
• Introduction to subgrid
• Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era - by Ernie Smith.
• 8 Unbelievable Things You Never Knew About Tracking - by Laura Kalbag.
• Why I Am Not a Maker - by Debbie Chachra.
• canvas2svg
• Why you should make useless things - by Simone Giertz.
• A Web for Everyone - by James Will.
• Mid-Career Survival for People Who Don't Want to be an Attrition Statistic When They Grow Up: Talk Transcript - by Julie Pagano.
• RTL Styling 101 - by Ahmad Shadeed.
• Letting Go of the Old Web - by Desiree Zamora Garcia.
• CSS and Network Performance - by Harry Roberts.

Not exactly web development related

• Sexpat Journalists Are Ruining Asia Coverage - by Joanna Chiu.
• The cost of leaving an abusive relationship - By Ashley Powers.
• The Missing Cryptoqueen.
• Inside R/Relationships, the Unbearably Human Corner of Reddit - by Kaitlyn Tiffany.
• 52 UX Cards to Discover Cognitive Biases - by Stéphanie Walter.
• Talking to Men About Their Female Role Models Is Still Like Pulling Teeth - by Madeleine Holden.

Miscellaneous

Funny or cute or happy or uplifting content etc.

• I actually quote that clip all the time at home.
• A demonstration of constant velocity, using a moving trampoline.
• Very haunted
• Mini pond.
• A "the good place" reference!
• Filming an enchanted forest.

Made me think

Content warning: This section might include tweets that aren't uplifting and happy but rather thoughts that stayed with me.

• "you actually have no idea how the algorithms have affected your social network" - oh no.
• One of the reasons why your product is sexist.
• 4 steps for politely, but firmly, ending a disagreement.

When this month started I was very optimistic. I was full of energy and keen to get shit done. Now, I am overwhelmed with this sense of productivity shame. I have two blog posts that are still on my drafts, one side project and a lot of other tasks to do. Hopefully next month it will be better.

Bookmarks from July

Web development/tech related content

• A Vacancy Has Been Detected - by Kelly Sutton.
• Rainbow coloured grid with Splitting.js and custom properties - by Michelle Barker.
• Eva Design System
• Common Voice- by Mozilla
• SVG shows today's date - by Terence Eden
• Year in photos - by Barbara Yang
• freezeframe.js
• Captions and Transcripts and Audio Descriptions, Oh My! - by Dennis Deacon
• Full stackers - by Chris Coyier
• You don't need MomentJs
• Form design: from zero to hero all in one blog post - Adam Silver
• Pokemon Card Holo Effect - by Simon Goellner
• Heatwave: An Animated CSS Sun Illustration - by Michelle Barker
• Creating my logo animation - by Cassie Evans
• Well-being on twitter - by Andy Bell
• Real dark web - by Charlie Owen

Let's appreciate what the 1% does. But let's not allow the 1% to dominate the conversations and our collective headspace.

– Charlie Owen

Miscellaneous

Fun, cute, happy, uplifting content etc.

• 10 flowers to grow in your garden.
• A relatable feeling.
• CCTV footage of me during July

Made me think

Content warning: This section might include tweets that aren't uplifting and happy but rather thoughts that stayed with me.

• "It's a hundred times easier to criticize than create." - Telling this to myself whenever someone mocks the silly things I create.

How is it July already?

Bookmarks from June

Non-tech articles

• The invention of Essex: how a county became a caricature - by Tim Burrows.
• Ana Kriégel murder trial: The complete story - by Conor Gallagher. Content warning: violence against women.
• Your Questions About Food and Climate Change, Answered - By Julia Moskin, Brad Plumer, Rebecca Lieberman and Eden Weingart.
• Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet - By Jordan Engel.
• The mindfulness conspiracy - by Ronald Purser.

Web development/tech related content

• Extra.CSS - by Una Kravets.
• Lurking, Twitter, The Commons, and Private Posts - by Chris Aldrich.
• Scroll-snap + position: sticky + intersectionObserver - by Michelle Barker.
• Rebuilding the Solar System with CSS - by Rob DiMarzo.
• The AI gig economy is coming for you - by Karen Hao.
• Responsive Image Breakpoints Generator - by Cloudinary.
• Drawing Realistic Clouds with SVG and CSS - by Beau Jackson.
• This page is a truly naked, brutalist html quine. - by Leon.
• Vertical and Horizontal Lines - by Ahmad Shadeed.
• Variable fonts - by Mandy Michael.
• The CSS Mindset - by Max Böck.
• Writing modes - by Michelle Barker.
• How 13 Became the Internet’s Age of Adulthood - by Julie Jargon.
• Why Dark Gray is Brighter than Gray In CSS - by Casper Beyer.
• Day 17 - Prebrowsing - by Amber Wilson.
• Seing sprouts - by Carol Stran.
• Three Arguments for Why You Should Write More - by Marek Zaluski.
• Masking - by Michelle Barker.
• Get off of Twitter - by Nolan Lawson.

You’re worried about losing your influence.

– Nolan Lawson
• How to Make Your Phone Into an Ally, Not an Enemy - by Margaret Morris.
• Our Incredible Journey - by Phil Gyford.
• Things I Learnt The Hard Way (in 30 Years of Software Development) - by Julio Biason.
• affirmation generator - by Monica Powell.
• Tech for Good Live S2 Ep8 - Mirror, Mirror on the Wall - by Tech for Good Live.
• webmention.app - by Remy Sharp.
• A simple starter kit for Eleventy - by Andy Bell.
• Mass Incarceration ❤️ Technology - by Jenn Schiffer.
• Every Layout - by Andy Bell and Heydon Pickering.

Miscellaneous

Fun, cute, happy, uplifting content etc.

• A beautiful roseate spoonbill.
• Showing the state of CI with a little traffic light.
• A smooshy cat.
• Dog found a clam!
• En el avión con Mamama (i'm sorry, i laughed)
• This deleted wiki title
• This mystery.
• This dog with a cone.
• Shrek Fest.

Made me think

Content warning: This section will include tweets that aren't uplifting and happy but rather thoughts that stayed with me.

• This tweet explains a lot.
• Etsy sellers being exposed to harrassment.
• A thread on biased sexism based on a photo in LinkedIn.
• "Callout culture".
• "I work better under pressure".