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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".

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

• Development of chick embryo
• A wildlife pound in action
• Possum living in the grill had babies

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.