Bookmarks

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

February bookmarks

Published on the 6th March 2019

February was a complete write-off for me. It wasn't a good month but to my surprise I bookmarked a lot of things in the first two weeks of it. I also created an account in TikTok as if I don't waste enough time already looking at memes.

Bookmarks from February

Why We Need to Talk About—and Recognize—Representation Burnout - by Martha Tesema.
Don’t feel like an expert? Share anyway. - by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Exclusive Design - by Vasilis van Gemert
Your digital identity has three layers, and you can only protect one of them - by Katarzyna Szymielewicz
Accessibility Reviews - by Adrian Roselli and Tobie Langel
ASCII renderer - by Tommy Li
Tokimeki Unfollow - by Julius Tarng
TRUST the Process: How to present your best, when you’re at your worst - by Tatiana Mac
These Comics About Work Anxieties Are Painfully Real - compilation by Arianna Rebolini and comics by Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy
The end of the celebrity designer - by Tim Van Damme
A web of anxiety: accessibility for people with anxiety and panic disorders [Part 1] - by David Swallow
A web of anxiety: accessibility for people with anxiety and panic disorders [Part 2] - by David Swallow
"My background pattern resources" - by Wes Bos
Statistics - Children and Young people victims of crime and violence 2013-2017 (in Portuguese) - by APAV (Associação Portuguesa de Apoio à Vítima)
Web Components Club - by Andy Bell
The "C" is for accessibility - by Evangelina Ferreira
Progressive Vue Toggle - by Andy Bell
CSS Reference - by Jeremy Thomas
Complete guide to accessible video and audio for the web - by Stefany Newman
Let's bring Fan Sites and webrings back! - by Bryan Robinson
Awesome Leadership and Management - by Lauri Apple
Your words are wasted - by Scott Hanselman
The Best Way to Ride Out Air Turbulence - by Cynthia Drescher
Using persona profiles to test accessibility - by Anika Henke
MIDI CITY 2000 - by Monica Dinculescu
You guys - by Baron Schwartz
CSS Doodle - by Yuan Chuan
Front end wizard - by Kieran Venison
Pure CSS Still Life - Water and Lemons - by Ben Evans
"TIL" RSS Feed - by Sara Soueidan
Quick Note on high contrast mode - by Scott O'Hara
CSS Night Cat - by Steve Gardner
Ryan Adams, misogyny and “sensitive” masculinity - by Anna Leszkiewicz
Slapping Back Imposter Syndrome - by Alice Goldfuss
Micrometa 2 demo page - by Joschi Kuphal
Look Ma, No Media Queries! Responsive Layouts Using CSS Grid - by Juan Martín García
The Colors of Motion
CSS selectors cheatsheet - by Nana
IndieKit - by Paul Robert Lloyd
Using CSS Grid the right way - by Violet Peña

Things that made me smile one way or another

January bookmarks

Published on the 2nd February 2019

Maybe these "bookmarks posts" will a monthly thing. I realised my life isn't that eventfull in terms of bookmarking.

Bookmarks from January

Being glue - by Tanya Reilly
Veerle's blog - by Veerle
Engineering Management: The Pendulum Or The Ladder - by Charity
SVG Gradient Map Filter - by @yoksel_en
A refactor with CSS variables - by Jules Forrest
Static Indieweb pt1: Syndicating Content - by Max Böck
Stepping away from Sass - by Cathy Dutton
When to stop - by Dustin Curtis
How to Stop Opening Links in New Windows without Warning - by Nicolas Steenhout
Impostor Syndrome, Perfectionism, Anxiety and Learning to be Kind to Yourself - by Jo Franchetti
Personal sites are awesome! - by Andy Bell
CSS only morphing blob - by Monica Dinculescu
Trapped in a hoax: survivors of conspiracy theories speak out - by Ed Pilkington
WordArt - by Katherine Kato
Repeater - by Richard Westenra
New year, new website - by Meagan Fisher
HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points - by Rachel Andrew
Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? - by Jarred
myRSS - by Stuart Robson
New York Insurers Can Evaluate Your Social Media Use—If They Can Prove Why It’s Needed - by Leslie Scism
My experience at Global Diversity CFP Day - by me!!!
Night trains in Europe
Learn in Public - by Shawn Wang