"I love engineer, writer, speaker » Tatiana Mac"

2022-05-09 07:11:09

Skip Content Floating hands Geometric logo with two parallel lines on top and bottom, then a backwards 11 in the middle. Writing Speaking Media About Shop Tatiana Mac is an American engineer who builds inclusive, accessible, and ethical products with thoughtful practices. An designer engineer who codes. A writer who reads. A speaker who listens. Floating hands Two hands forming a circle with a triangle in between. Selected Writings Bah-hum-blog. Spilled glasses Green puddle with several goblets Overview My writing selfishly serves me first—it's a conduit for me to learn, to process, and to release. While this is the main goal of my writing, I do hope that others benefit as well. Most of the writing I share here falls into two broad categories. Engineering Why'd you park like such an a-hole?: Inviting curiosity, context into engineering, our lives prefers-reduced-motion: Taking a no-motion-first approach to animations Beginner's Guide to Eleventy [Part II] Beginner's Guide to Eleventy [Part I] Why beginners should teach Humans Banal binaries: How power plays into how we communicate On morality, hero worship, and why judgment isn't helpful Compassionate action over empathy Beware of Burnout: Sustainable strategies for activism White Guyde To The Galaxy Save the Tears: White Woman's Guide Requests v. demands, indirect vs. direct language, and responding and ignoring are all ways we communicate our power in daily interactions, even if subconsciously and quietly Banal binaries: How power plays into how we communicate culture humans Being more curious and less critical in engineering Why'd you park like such an a-hole?: Inviting curiosity, context into engineering, our lives culture engineering Unfortunately, so many of our tutorials (and media in general) only comes in one form. When our teachings are only provided in one media, in one language, in one *form*, it is inherently inaccessible to some subset of our students. Let me learn: Provide tutorials in more formats tutorials performance accessibility Use the prefers-reduced-motion media query to help guide your animation principles prefers-reduced-motion: Taking a no-motion-first approach to animations tutorials animation accessibility engineering We're quick to judge everyone by our own moral compass. Our north star is just that: ours. On morality, hero worship, and why judgment isn't helpful humans Empathy gets thrown around a lot as the solution to the world's problems. I think we need to examine what empathy really is. Compassionate action over empathy humans Activism is not a sprint to a finish; there is no finish, but rather a life-long marathon commitment to showing up every single day. Like running, it requires training and a strategy Beware of Burnout: Sustainable strategies for activism humans In the second instalment of a four part guide, I show you how to install Eleventy—except I walk through each gruelling step. Beginner's Guide to Eleventy [Part II] tutorials Eleventy engineering Black folks are protesting for their survival, and you're a white dude who isn't sure how to help. What now? I've written you a guide. White Guyde To The Galaxy humans Black folks are protesting for their survival, and you're a white woman who isn't sure how to help. What now? I've written you a guide. Save the Tears: White Woman's Guide humans Static site generators (SSGs) are critical to modern tooling. When used thoughtfully, SSGs can facilitate sites that need something in the middle—in the vast expanse between static, hand-coded sites and dynamic behemoths. In a multi-part guide, I'll show you how to use Eleventy. Beginner's Guide to Eleventy [Part I] tutorials Eleventy engineering Our industry infatuation with abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms might make us lose clarity. #a11y: Accessible or ironic? During this time, many of us are thinking of the lockdown as a pause from reality. But what happens to the lives we lead between when reality can reconnect with itself? In digital suspension As stewards of performance and accessibility, at the cusp of privilege, we must be the ones to have the conversations tactfully and thoughtfully. Hubris isn't helpful Here are 10 reasons why I'd like to see more beginners teach; for yourself, for your future students, for your peers, and for our industry as a whole. Why beginners should teach #RhymesForTryingTimes In a year · When, next · Dead-End Friend · Confession · Ally’s Cry · Twice Bitten · White Collar Crimes · Le rime per le lacrime · Call of Crows · Though · Our SVP · You and I · Anything · Cat's dead · Cove · Interview · à part, Descartes · Chess · Glow · Stylesheets · Multitudes · At the edge of the unknown · Schlange · Secret Garden · Over · 33 · Wrapped · Cindy Sherman · Chiaroscuro · Venice by Night · Contact Email Twitter Codepen GitHub Copyright © Tatiana Mac. Built with HTML & CSS with Sass and sass atop Eleventy. Read my release notes. Subscribe to my RSS feed. Get to really know me by reading my ?.