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July bookmarks

Published on the 7th August 2019

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.

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.

June bookmarks

Published on the 1st July 2019

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.

May bookmarks

Published on the 31st May 2019

This month went by really quickly! It must have been the two bank holidays. And it was a busy month: I did three talks, helped organise a meet-up, attended some meet-ups too, work as usual and life! But I will explore this on another post sometime in the future. For now, this month's bookmarks.

Bookmarks from May

Non-tech articles

4 Reasons a Hiring Manager Doesn’t Extend a Job Offer - by Leslie Yang
Sweden by train: from Stockholm to Oslo - by Catherine Edwards
Me Too Backlash Is Getting Worse - by Emily Peck
4 Reasons Good Employees Lose Their Motivation - by Richard E. Clark and Bror Saxberg
I Was Trained for the Culture Wars in Home School, Awaiting Someone Like Mike Pence as a Messiah - by Kieryn Darkwater
Transhumanism Is Tempting—Until You Remember Inspector Gadget - by Rose Eveleth
Why Women Are Called 'Influencers' and Men 'Creators' - by Emma Grey Ellis

Web development/tech related content

Fading out siblings on hover in CSS - by Trys Mudford
It is perfectly OK to only code at work, you can have a life too. - by Marty Jacobs
A Conspiracy To Kill IE6 - by Chris Zacharias
Alt-texts: The Ultimate Guide - by Daniel Göransson
Favicons: Perhaps the Least Understood Web Feature - by Doug Sillars
A Practical Guide To Optimizing Performance On The Web - by Gift Egwuenu
Into the Personal-Website-Verse - by Matthias Ott
Permission To Write Stuff - by Brendan Dawes
Inside the Team at Facebook That Dealt with the Christchurch Shooting - by Kate Klonick
Things nobody ever taught me about CSS. - by Charlie Gerard
Accessibility Is More Than Just Supporting Screenreaders - by Seren Davies
Frontend NE 2019 - by Carolina Gilabert
Why we need more beginners teaching - by Tatiana Mac
Building an Inclusive and Diverse Tech Meetup - by Andy Burgin
Impostor Syndrome and I - by Carolina Gilabert
How To Supercharge Your Productivity As A Developer - by Gift Egwuenu
The CSS background-image property as an anti-pattern - by Andrew Welch
Piccalilli May Issues - by Andy Bell
Debugging CSS Grid Part 2: What the Fr(action)? - by Michelle Barker
All Day Hey! 2019 Retrospective - by Josh Nesbitt
Take Back Your Web - by Tantek Çelik

Miscellaneous

April bookmarks

Published on the 6th May 2019

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

But, 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.

– 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

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.

This tweet showing how a camera's capture rate changes due to the amount of light being let into the camera.

March bookmarks

Published on the 2nd April 2019

This “bookmarking” format doesn’t seem to be working for me because of the way I am doing this. It also seems that I am bookmarking more and more things and I leave all the bookmarks to the last days of the month. I feel like I don’t have enough time to give them proper treatment. I want to share my favourite quotes and my opinions on them and this method seems rushed. I might go back to my original plan of doing them every two weeks.

I have also decided to split between tech and non-tech related articles because I feel that the amount should be the same (and it currently isn’t).

Also this month went by too quickly. Too quickly.

Bookmarks from March