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.

• "you actually have no idea how the algorithms have affected your social network" - oh no.
• One of the reasons why your product is sexist.
• 4 steps for politely, but firmly, ending a disagreement.