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.

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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.

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".