🧶 ICYMI #29: How To Learn Stuff Quickly
Howdy y'all,
Long time no see! I don't know about y'all, but the holidays came at me hard. I really powered down for several weeks, and I'm glad I did! Starting in the new year I moved onto a newly-formed team at work, and have been focusing all my energy on that. Time has just massively gotten away from me, and suddenly it's the early days of February! I hope your 2022 is off to a good start.
🔦 Featured
How To Learn Stuff Quickly (Josh Comeau) - This post is a gold mine (no exaggeration). It's a nice curated collection of useful practices and approaches that I'm already familiar with, for the most part -- but putting into practice is the tricky bit! Josh talks about leveraging both guided and unguided learning, growth mindset, spaced repetition, learning in public, and more.
✏️ Writes
- "Evergreen" Does Not Mean Immediately Available (Eric Bailey) - Are you the co-worker who gets called out for having the "red update button of doom" in Chrome when you screenshare? (Absolutely not me, can't relate).
- Atomic Design and Storybook (Brad Frost) - Brad Frost and Michael Chan talked atomic design and Storybook on Storybook's new Storytime show. This post spills over from their conversation to unpack a bit more about using Storybook to create design systems.
- Etsy's Journey to TypeScript (Salem Hilal) - Etsy's monorepo has over seventeen thousand JavaScript files in it. The Etsy team concluded that TypeScript would help solve some of their pain points. This post is a fun walkthrough of their adoption and migration strategies.
🔨 Projects
- Coding kitty - Nyan cat's cousin is your co-worker who loves them some lo-fi beats! 🎧
- Burds! - "Just a bunch of burds, jumpin' around." Just delightful and oddly soothing. 🐦
- How airports lie to you with DNS - An edition of Wizard Zines from Julia Evans. The neverssl.com hack is so clutch. ✈️
💬 Tweets
An illustrated analogy for the CSS box model. Beautiful visual explainers never get old for me.
https://twitter.com/anniebombanie_/status/1485600904720101380?s=20&t=y_zWnocY62ANtP-0DrvWlw
A 🧵 explainer from Maggie Appleton about "the block protocol" -- a standardized format for reusable blocks:
https://twitter.com/Mappletons/status/1488131234089873408?s=20&t=dHLmZY5NkslW-aFjZNbW7Q
Let's talk about "glue work":
https://twitter.com/Dixie3Flatline/status/1489677967512850434?s=20&t=uSmuRLCe6_oM4dZWR28zMg
🎧 Podcasts
- Happy 10-year, 500-episodes milestone to ShopTalk show! Check out a recent episode, Melanie Sumner on Ember, Accessibility, and the Web.
- What a high performing data team (and stack) looks like - The Data Stack Show, featuring Paige Berry, a staff data analyst at Netlify.
🦄 Random
- Setting Intentions to Give Yourself a Break This Year—10 Ideas - What better time to revisit new year's intentions than the beginning of February? You don't need to be a YNAB (You Need a Budget) fan to appreciate this post. If your more aggressive resolution hasn't stuck, maybe consider more of a gentle nudge instead.
🌵 Personal
- I've been more drawn to the tactile pursuits lately. I inherited my mom's sewing machine, got it all serviced and happy, and set about making my first quilt (🧵)!
Happy February, and have a lovely weekend,
Amberley