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1. Apr 26, 2022 How to test for screen reader accessibility with VoiceOver on your Mac

   Every Mac has a screen reader built in, called VoiceOver. This article describes how you can use it to test the web application user interfaces you build!

2. Apr 24, 2022 Email apps on Mac, iPhone and iPad compared

   I love a good deep-dive into competing software, so with the time I saved recently on shopping for email hosts I decided to take a fresh look at email clients for my Apple-ecosystem devices. Strap in for some obsessive comparison-shopping!

3. Jan 14, 2022 Micro Front Ends, Strategy, and Blueberry Muffins

   As the director of Culture Amp's large-and-growing front end engineering practice, my biggest challenge in the past year was to communicate a coherent strategy that those 60+ engineers could understand and get behind. The solution was blueberry muffins. 🫐

4. Feb 22, 2021 Ally Beaton looks back on two years in the Kaizen design system

   On her second-last day as Culture Amp's tech lead for the Kaizen design system, Ally Beaton joined me to look back on two years of progress in our React component library.

5. Apr 6, 2020 Shrink Videos With ffmpeg On Your Mac

   There is a free tool called ffmpeg that makes it easy to convert an original video file into something much smaller (as little as 10% the size, in some cases!) but still very high quality. Installing and running it on your Mac can be a little bit of a hassle, especially if you’ve never used the command line in Terminal before, but I’ve written up these detailed instructions to get you started.