🧶 ICYMI #2: June 28, 2019

✏️ Writes

• Several outlets wrote about the inaccessibility of 2020 presidential candidates' websites. (Which is great, despite the methodology of the cited research being... flawed.)
• Nadia Eghbal wrote about methodologies for measuring OSS project health. (Note: This is from July 18, 2018, but new to me and fascinating).
• Hidde de Vries wrote for Mozilla about how accessibility trees inform assistive tech.

🔨 Projects

• The Washington Post published an interactive piece, "Seeing isn't believing: The Fact Checker's guide to manipulated video".
• Ableton created an interactive introduction to synthesizers. (A synthesizer (or synth) is an electronic musical instrument, producing sounds by generating and combining signals of different frequencies).
• Kitze launched an updated Sizzy.io -- a tool for testing responsive websites on multiple devices at once.

🧵 Threads

• Lisa Kaplan shared a story illustrating how many of us take the privilege of internet access for granted, and how lack of access excludes people from doing vital things like applying for a job.
• Sarah Drasner shared a helpful mental process for dealing with anxiety -- "Anxiety tends to get amplified with unknowns. If you're feeling off, check your facts."
• Tatiana Mac shared a thought that really resonated, on describing feedback as "constructive and destructive", rather than "good and bad".

🎤 Talks

• Anjana Vakil delivered a brilliant and entertaining talk on lambda calculus at JSHeroes 2019.
• Bryan Hughes spoke about the contentious relationship between the LGBTQ+ community and tech at JSConf EU 2019.
• Phil Hawksworth did an awesome webinar for Smashing Magazine on JAMstack fundamentals.

🎧 Podcasts

• Veni Kunche joined the Product Hunt podcast to discuss launching a business, and supporting underrepresented candidates getting into tech.
• The most recent episode of Kimberlé Crenshaw's "Intersectionality Matters" podcast explored "The Anatomy of an Apology: How Himpathy & Hubris Undermine Accountability". (Note: This was released June 6, 2019).
• New podcast alert! Kelly Vaughn, Ali Spittel, Emma Wedekind and Lindsey Kopacz launched the "ladybug podcast", a new podcast debugging the tech industry 🐞. (New episodes on Mondays).

🗣 Shout-outs

• Alex Trost & Elle Trost beat the "podfade", releasing their eighth episode of The Overlap podcast.
• A very happy birthday to friend and co-worker Jason Lengstorf! Lots of people made silly Gatsby projects to celebrate, and it was delightful.

🦄 Random

• NASA announced a new mission to visit Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
• INSIDER produced this short video on the "evolution of Pixar's digital animation".
• The Guardian published a Silicon Valley dictionary, and it's... pretty great/terrible.
• A baby puffin is called a puffling??

🌵 Personal

• I'll be speaking at All Things Open later this year!
• We're hiring a VP of Engineering and a Marketing Manager at Gatsby!
• I just finished reading Technically Wrong by Sara Wachter-Boettcher, and highly recommend it. (Up next is Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil).
• I asked Twitter what resources they would recommend for a complete git beginner, and got some great suggestions.