🧶 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.

✏️ 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

June 21, 2019, midnight