Bookmarks: January 2023
Tags: bookmarks, personal
Published: 2023-02-04 15:33:56

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title: "Bookmarks: January 2023"
description: A collection of interesting things I found around the interwebs this last month.
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Please enjoy some curated links to online content I have enjoyed this past month. 😊

## Tech and Web

### [A Debugging Manifesto - Julia Evans](https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/12/08/a-debugging-manifesto)

![An image panel from Julia Evan's "A Debugging Manifesto".](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/ztpkfcqmep9z6h4cozqa.png)
A friendly approach to reframing software bugfixing as a learning activity.

> If something is breaking, it’s often because there’s something wrong in my mental model

### [A CSS challenge: skewed highlight - Vadim Makeev](https://pepelsbey.dev/articles/skewed-highlight/)

![A CSS skewed highlight effect by Vadim Makeev.](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/9d1m9kg7mfsrwd6o5qox.png)
A really nice highlighter effect with modern CSS. It achieves the slant using gradients, rather than separate elements or pseudo-elements. It also leverages a little-known CSS property for getting the effect to work across line breaks.

### [Clever Code Considered Harmful - Josh W. Comeau](https://www.joshwcomeau.com/career/clever-code-considered-harmful/)

![A screenshot of complex, unreadable haskell codefrom Josh W. Comeau's blog.](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/hp11fa4dkwfvpubpnj5o.png)
A well-articulated case against complex and overly "clever" code. The most compelling takeaways for me are:

- consider whether your code can be understood by a junior dev,
- when complexity is necessary, encapsulate it to prevent it bleeding all over your codebase. 

### [Unicorn Icons - Kushmeen](https://unicornicons.com/icons)

![An GIF of gorgeous animated icons by Kushmeen.](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/lg88yu08cv7pqg1x704o.gif)
👏🏻 I love these. And I immediately want to start a project where I can use them.

### [The 12-Bit Rainbow Palette - Kate Rose Morley](https://iamkate.com/data/12-bit-rainbow/)

![A well-designed 12-colour rainbow palette by Kate Rose Morley](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/wpttx45n0jnz7wdl9xu0.png)
This pleases me a lot. In fact, I have half-formed plans to implement a similar rainbow palette on this here blog. Stay tuned.

## Career

### [Lessons learned since posting my salary history publicly - Jamie Tanna](https://www.jvt.me/posts/2022/09/21/year-later-salary-history/)

![A screenshot of Jamie Tanna's published salary history.](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/s53pzzyqt566lfvrao5f.png)
This is really interesting to consider, and something I would love to do later in my career. Being a woman in tech means I'm statistically likely to be underpaid for the work I do, and that's some heavy baggage to carry. I appreciate this transparency and I hope it can become a norm in the industry.

## Miscellaneous

### [How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed - KC Davis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqItMybTKTo)

![A TED talk video thumbnail of KC Davis.](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/wkbvl6xo4s063nobf54q.jpg)
A poignant TED talk on the burden of daily caretaking tasks. It's focussed on shifting your self talk from one of punishment to one of compassion. As someone with a chronic health condition that can affect my functioning, this was tearful and healing.
> Care tasks are morally neutral.

> Anything worth doing is worth doing half-assed.

### [Wonders of Street View - neal.fun](https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/)

![A Google Street View screenshot of a skier jumping over two other people high in a snowy mountainscape.](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/0gtkzngovh2c1lyp9g0l.png)
A sometimes hilarious, sometimes awe-inspiring collection of the weird and wonderful snapshots that can be found on Google Street View.