Bookmarks
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January bookmarks
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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.
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Bookmarks of the rest of 2019
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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.
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July bookmarks
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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
– Charlie OwenLet's appreciate what the 1% does. But let's not allow the 1% to dominate the conversations and our collective headspace.
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.
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June bookmarks
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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.
- 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.
– Nolan LawsonYou’re worried about losing your influence.
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.
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May bookmarks
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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