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Hi Smiles Davis,  
I've spent the last few days watching as cities across the world stood up against police brutality  
and systemic racism.  
The cops have handled it so much worse than I was expecting (and I had pretty  
low expectations).  
Instead of talking about tech stuff, I wanted to take the opportunity this week to share a little  
bit about what I've been doing.  
There are many ways to help, and I don't pretend to have all the  
answers, but if you're feeling frustrated like I am, hopefully this can help give you some ideas.  
Here's what I've been doing:  
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Taking some time to feel uncomfortable about my role as a white guy in western society.  
Listening  
to what Black people are saying, and amplifying those voices.  
Donating to worthy causes.  
My employer, Gatsby, is  
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matching community donations  
to a handful of  
charitable organizations that are fighting for Black rights and liberties.  
Protip: If you're  
outside of the US like me,  
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Black Visions Collective  
accepts donations from around the world.  
Educating myself.  
I recently read  
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So You Want To Talk About Race  
, by Ijeoma Oluo, and it was  
eye opening. I've just started reading  
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White Fragility  
by Robin Di Angelo.  
Broadening my Twitter bubble by following more people of color, and unfollowing people that look  
like me (I cut the  number  of people I was following by  10 percent ; I'm sorry if you were one of them!).  
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I know that many of y'all live very far from the US, and I apologize for such a  western centric  
monologue! I know you didn't subscribe to hear me talk about police brutality and systemic racism.  
It just felt irresponsible to not talk about it this week.  
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In other news…  
A couple weeks back, I hurt my wrist slash elbow slash shoulder slash neck.  
More specifically, I  
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injured my ulnar  
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Fortunately, this is not a long term  slash  
chronic problem, and I should be back to 100 percent  soon enough.  
I was originally going to share a sneak preview of an upcoming post in this issue, but it doesn't  
feel right this week.  
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Illustrations  
I am not an illustrator, a fact I am constantly annoyed by when I need to build a landing page.  
Over the past few months, many amazing resources have popped up to fill this gap, letting  
developers like me build beautiful pages with wonderful illustrations.  
I thought today I'd share  
some of my favourites.  
All of the resources below allow you to use the illustrations for both personal and commercial  
projects, without attribution. Also, none of these collections are white by default.  
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Black Illustrations  
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An illustration of a Black man and woman in a coffee shop  
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this week, and I love it.  
Beautifully illustrated (those  
gradients!), and a solid set of practical and functional situations.  
There are 40 plus  images across two packs: Office slash Life, and Medical.  
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Open Peeps  
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An illustration of a man, with annotations showing how it's constructed out of individual parts  
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(head, accessories, facial expression, etc)  
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Open Peeps  
is a really clever idea: It's a library of modular illustrations.  
You can mix and match  
heads, clothes, facial expressions, accessories… It's incredibly flexible, and allows you to build  
truly one of a kind illustrations.  
I especially like that they're inclusive of folks with disabilities.  
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Undraw  
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Illustration of two men looking at a list of items, one holding a clipboard  
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Undraw  
was launched in 2017, and over the years they've continued to add illustrations; it's now an  
incredibly rich and extensive library.  
Focused primarily on people performing tasks, across many  
industries. They've done a good job ensuring that characters are diverse.  
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Do you have any other resources for high quality royalty free illustrations?  
Reply to this email  
and let me know!  
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Take care of yourself  
This week has been a particularly stressful one for folks in the Western world, but this has been a  
hard year regardless of where you live.  
Please remember to take care of yourself; unclench your  
jaw, have a bath, do something kind for a stranger.  
Until next time,  
Josh  
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