The highlight of the month was: My article for Smashing Magazine went live!! Please read (and share if you think someone else would like it too)! 🤗

Bookmarks from August

Web development

• System UIcons by Corey Ginnivan.
• Transparent textures by Mike Hearn.
• Debugging HTML With Advanced CSS Selectors by Matthias Ott.
• Multiple drop-shadows on clipped element by Michelle Barker.
• Rainbow color selection by Louis Hoebregts.
• Drop-Shadow: The Underrated CSS Filter by Michelle Barker.
• Build vs Buy: Software Systems at Jurassic Park by Todd Gardner.
• Gradient angles in CSS by Nils Binder.
• Feature flags by Sunil Pai.
• Figuring out how to mark up a figure by Sebastian Greger.
• Convert HTML to Accessible PDF by Nick Colley.
• a11y is web accessibility by Eric W Bailey.
• Generative art by Ilithya.
• a11y-tests.css by Manuel Matuzovic.
• smoothscroll.css by Zach Leatherman.
• The difference between aria-label and aria-labelledby by Léonie Watson.
• Here’s what I didn’t know about “content” by Manuel Matuzovic.
• Incremental progress by Fluffy.
• Spirited Away CSS Illustration by Inès.
• RolandMC-500.css by Sarah Fossheim.
• Web History by Jay Hoffmann.
• Take Me On by Adam Kuhn.

Nice things on personal websites

• Adding Structured Book Data to My Blog Posts by Ana Ulin.
• Gratitude by Amberley Romo.
• My First Homebrew Website Club Meeting by James Gallagher.
• Being OK With Not Being Extraordinary by Tiffany Matthé.
• This website is killing the planet by Steve Messer.
• Personal Portfolio Refresh by Lisi Linhart.

Others

• A Permanent Nightmare’: Pinterest Moderators Fight to Keep Horrifying Content Off the Platform by Sarah Emerson.
• Structural Racism and it's Influence on GPs/Dermatologist by Harriet.
• The Pandemic Isn’t Forcing Moms Out of the Workforce — Dads Are by Jessica Valenti.
• You want people to do the right thing? Save them the guilt trip by Claudia R Schneider.
• Millennials Slammed by Second Financial Crisis Fall Even Further Behind by Janet Adamy.
• The Mesmerizing Geometry of Malaysia’s Most Complex Cakes by Samantha Chong.
• How social justice slideshows took over Instagram by Terry Nguyen.
• Ubisoft's #MeToo Reckoning, Two Months Later by Ethan Gach and Ash Parrish.
• When Polaroid Workers Fought Apartheid by Michael McCanne.
• Facebook algorithm found to 'actively promote' Holocaust denial by Mark Townsend.
• So you want to build antiracist teams? by Erica Stanley.
• A philosopher accused of sexual harassment started a company to advise on business ethics by Olivia Goldhill.
• On all that fuckery by Kat Fukui.
• A Message To TikTok Parents Who Use My Face To Make Their Kids Cry by Melissa Blake.
• Harassers are nice to me, and probably to you by Sarah Milstein.
• Britain can’t afford to miss this chance to clean up the web by Salma Shah. (Note: I didn't actually read this one because I don't have a subscription.)
• Activists and tech companies met to talk about online violence against women: here are the takeaways.
• Unconsenting Media.

Tweets

• What trauma sometimes is.
• Productivity Anxiety by Dani Donovan.
• Google sheets trick.
• On not being social.
• Edinburgh Samoyed Rescue.
• How the email finds me.
• Malicious compliance.
• Relatable alligator.
• On authors.
• Two types of dogs.

And now, in all honesty, my article was indeed the highlight of the month. Mostly because I struggled a lot with my mental health this past month. Maybe it is because I read a lot of unhappy things (my "others" section is nightmare fuel) but I can't help it. I can't just escape. Just a hopeless, powerless and anxious month. Hopefully this September I... feel better.

PS.: I am almost certain I missed some links here of awesome stuff friends did. I'm sorry... My brain isn't fully here recently.