🧶 ICYMI #8: August 9, 2019

✏️ Writes

• An Intro to Screen Reader Testing for Sighted Developers, by Jessica Jordan.
• Time to First Byte: What It Is and Why It Matters, by Harry Roberts.
• Why Claims of Mental Illness Don't Excuse Racism, by Imani Barbarin.

🔨 Projects

• Color Thief: Grab the color palette from an image.
• Gatsby Theme Simplecast: A beautiful Gatsby theme for a podcast site pulling from Simplecast.
• Loom: Great recording tool that lets you capture your desktop and your webcam.

💬 Twitter

• 🐦 @LittleKope: If you're tired, rest, don't quit.
• 🐦 @ASmallFiction: Life's backyard garden.
• 🐦 @IanColdwater: Assume women at technical conferences are technical.

🎧 Podcasts

• Shannon McHarg and Ryan Johnson guested on Civic Tech Chat to talk about an open source project they contribute on, Maine Ballot.
• Eve Porcello guested on React Podcast to talk about learning GraphQL.
• Joel Hooks guested on Level Up Your Course to talk about using instructional design to teach developers.

🗣 Shout-outs

• The Gatsby team gets bigger and better! Welcome to Hashim Warren, Caitlin Cashin, and Valena del Valle!

🌵 Personal

• We released a new episode of Fullstack Health this week! We talked about burnout with Myk Bilokonsky and Dr. Mimi Winsberg.
• Part one of my A11y Rules chat with Nic Steenhout was released!
• There's a new Romo pupper in town!