First they came for <non-white, non-male, non-heterosexual> people, us. Two months ago white supremacy terrorist executed 50 people during time of their prayer in Christchurch and we enabled him. We need to do better.
Hi! I am Sarah and I am transitioning from Developer to UX/Web Designer.
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My tools, 2019 edition
It’s been a while, four and a half years in fact, since I wrote anything about my tools. So this post is long overdue.
Guerrilla Accessibility: CSS Tricks
Not all disabilities are treated equally and you can’t create 100% accessible space. Those two rules are absolute. What you can do is to create things which can be easily made accessible. CSS Tricks is tricky but it can be made accessible for a subset of people living with anxiety.
Book review: Art Direction for the Web
Andy Clarke is one of dozen or so people in the web industry whom I follow because what they say makes me either think and realize how much I don’t know yet or dig deeper and experiment on my own. So when his new book was released I had to get it.
Book review: Keep Going
Austin Kleon has published another short book with a lot of hand-drawn doodles and blacked out newspapers. The timing of the release was from my point of view impeccable. Continue reading “Book review: Keep Going”
RSS feeds – my starter pack
My last post was about reducing time on Twitter. It leaves a gap of information acquisition. Tools from two decades ago are still here and channels are still available. It’s RSS time again.
Reducing Twitter time
I’ve been getting news from not only the tech industry through Twitter for over a decade. I’ve got to know awesome people in the process. Now it’s time to stop using it as intensively. There are several reasons to cut the influence that wretched site has on my life. Here are four of mine.
Planning the second half of 2019
May 2019 will mark two and a half years of me working in corporate environment as a software developer, front-end leaning web developer to be precise. It feels like a good time to reflect on that and ponder what to do next in 2019 and early 2020.
Recruitment should NOT be a numbers game
Last Thursday three recruiters messaged me. Two of them got a polite answer that what they have is not suited for me, the third one didn’t get an answer because it felt pointless.
Collecting useful information
At the beginning of my personal Dear Data project, I got myself a small notebook for recording the data. Unfortunately only after day or two of recording I found myself with a lot of noise or useless data.
Illustrations and other experiments
