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.

• "How to infantilize an entire generation" - oh no.