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Better Bug Reports – Dave’s Quick Tips

Welcome back you magnificent monkeys! In this episode, we see how to make helpful images and videos for bug reports. Visuals help developers fix bugs faster, so including them in reports is always a happy bonus. Resources: Mac Shortcuts Skitch Napkin Quicktime (built into MacOS) Screenflick

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Using Accessible Colours – Dave’s Quick Tips

In this episode, we check out some tools to help us pick accessible colors so our websites are viewable by the widest range of people. Resources: https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/ https://usecontrast.com https://www.funkify.org/ https://xscopeapp.com/ http://contrast-grid.eightshapes.com/?background-colors=&foreground-colors=%23FFFFFF%2C%20White%0D%0A%23F2F2F2%0D%0A%23404040%2C%20Charcoal%0D%0A%23000000%2C%20Black%0D%0A&es-color-form__tile-size=compact

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On Social: It’s called content for a reason!

As a photographer, I get frustrated with social media. While social has brought photographers many great tools, and a platform to share the pinnacle of photography talent, it feels like now there are many tradeoffs to this democratization of photography. Social media brings average, everyday people in contact with amazing

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Unplug Your Router

3 reasons you need to get offline and go outside. K2 from Cheeky Monkey Media here. Alright, let’s be honest for a minute here. We’ve all spent our fair share of time browsing for ‘inspiration’. Today I’m going to going to tell you three reasons why that makes for uninteresting work.

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