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.