🧶 ICYMI #1: June 21, 2019
Hello hello!
I love keeping up with what people in the tech community write about, speak about, and accomplish. I've wanted to curate these things for a while, and I'm finally doing it!
The goal for these will be for me not to talk a lot 🤐, just to offer up cool articles, talks, podcast episodes, side projects, and shout-outs. I just want to keep better track of all the awesome things I see, and surface them to people who may have missed them / want to see them! Come along with me if you'd like.
I love keeping up with what people in the tech community write about, speak about, and accomplish. I've wanted to curate these things for a while, and I'm finally doing it!
The goal for these will be for me not to talk a lot 🤐, just to offer up cool articles, talks, podcast episodes, side projects, and shout-outs. I just want to keep better track of all the awesome things I see, and surface them to people who may have missed them / want to see them! Come along with me if you'd like.
✏️ Writes
- Veni Kunche asked underrepresented people in tech how we can fix the dreaded tech interview to increase diversity.
- Matej Latin published a guide on 5 keys to accessible web typography.
- Ethan Marcotte wrote the most I've ever read about drop caps.
🔨 Projects
- Vaidehi Joshi is launching a new podcast called Byte Sized all about coding history.
- Heydon Pickering and Andy Bell built Every Layout to help teach CSS layout.
- Andy Bell also released an awesome starter for a progressive, accessible blog built on Eleventy and NetlifyCMS.
- Tilde Ann Thurium built an SMS code of conduct reporting tool with Twilio Studio and Slack.
🎤 Talks
- Ian Coldwater gave an amazing talk at Tribe of Hackers 2019 about "Things Nobody Told Me".
- CJ Silverio spoke at JSConf EU 2019 about "The Economics of Open Source".
- Rachel Andrew gave a wonderful talk at CSS Day 2019 about "Refactoring (the way we talk about) CSS".
🎧 Podcasts
- Julia Silge talked about the Stack Overflow platform & its impact on #causeascene.
- Tatiana Mac shared her freelance story on Being Freelance.
- Lara Hogan talked about management and leadership on Strong Feelings.
🗣 Shout-outs
- Valerie Phoenix is giving her first conference talk at WriteSpeakCode!
- Carie Fisher migrated her articles onto a new personal site using Gatsby!
- Lindsey Kopacz got a much-deserved shout-out on CSS-Tricks!
🦄 Random
- You can finally use emoji in Google Docs on Mac!
- I learned about the "Smarter Every Day" YouTube channel, and it's amazing.
- There's a whole page devoted to a stunning array of party parrots! (Motion/animation warning).
🌵 Personal
- For the first time, I'm mentoring someone!
- I wrote about 3 concrete ways I manage impostor syndrome every day.
- People had a lot of feelings around browser tabs and dealing with burnout.
Have a great weekend! 💜,
Amberley
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