🧶 ICYMI #5: July 19, 2019 • Buttondown

Hello hello!

When I was a kid my dad used to threaten me with "stop growing medicine". Doing these newsletters drive home how quickly time is passing. (Same, when I was doing the bootcamp and consistently blogging on a weekly basis). So, lately I'm wishing "stop growing medicine" was a thing.

✏️ Writes

Marcy Sutton wrote a comprehensive report on user-testing client-side routing techniques for accessibility.
George Stern wrote on Serious Eats, "How Cooking Websites Are Failing People with Disabilities".
Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote in the New York Times, "It Was Never About Busing".

🧵 Twitter

🐦 @dan_abramov: Becoming an expert is often a consequence of tinkering.
🐦 @TatianaTMac: Just tell JS devs that semantic HTML elements are preloaded microframeworks serving up build-in accessibility and performance.
🐦 @MadyGComics: The Queer Eye gang, illustrated as the Scooby Doo crew.

🎤 Talks

Nashlie Sephus gave a talk at TEDxJackson, "The Why and How of Diversity in Tech".

🎧 Podcasts

This week I discovered The Way We Lead, a podcast exploring inclusive leadership and allyship. Hosted by Gaby and Jenelle.
I also recently discovered Ologies, a "comedyish science podcast" interviewing different "-ologists" about their professions and obsessions. Hosted by Alie Ward.

🦄 Random

People got really excited about FaceApp. Then they got really concerned about FaceApp.
Billionaires aren't making good on their promise to support the rebuilding of Notre Dame.
Why the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapsed back in 1940.

🌵 Personal

Jason and I livestreamed some work on powering my (work in progress) podcast theme with RSS.
Kurt and I experimented with a Twitter chat for the Fullstack Health podcast.
I wrote a written tutorial companion to Jason Lengstorf's video course on building a Gatsby theme.

Have a lovely weekend! 💜,

Amberley