I received more recruiter emails last week than in previous months combined. I hope that’s a sign of a better tech job market 🤞
Software Engineering ⚙️
Writing CSS In 2023: Is It Any Different Than A Few Years Ago?
I haven’t paid much attention to new features in CSS after learning Flexbox and Grid. Since I prefer to create self-contained components with component-specific styles, I haven’t felt the need to improve my CSS skills. But it was eye-opening that I wasn’t aware of so many new features.
10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design
As I finish my project at work, I plan to go through the feature with a critical eye to ensure a good enough user experience. These three heuristics are most important for my current work: #1: Visibility of system status, #5: Error prevention, and #7: Flexibility and efficiency of use. So I will ensure the feature has good loading and validation states and works with keyboards.
People ❤️
Designing Better Meetings
The article has many easy, valuable tips, such as defining a specific meeting type (explorations 🏕️, planning meetings 🏗️, etc.) with emojis. If I may add one more to the list, it would be “Start a 25-minute meeting at 5 minutes past o’clock rather than try to end the meeting 5 minutes before o’clock” because it’s so easy to go over five more minutes.
Questionable Advice: “How Can I Drive Change And Influence Teams…without Power?”
As an individual contributor with no positional authority, I think about how I can effect changes I want to see. There is a few pieces of actionable advice, but I found this sentence the most impactful:
“[T]he actual best way to persuade people to listen to you is
to make good decisions and display good judgment.”
Business 💰
The Chrome Privacy Sandbox APIs Will Be Generally Available For All Users In July
This is a bit old news, as the article came out in May, but it was still interesting. Google says third-party cookies, which have been powering online advertising, are for sure going away next year. Its impact will be close to Apple’s App Tracking Transparency change.
After State Farm’s and Allstate’s Exits, Farmers Insurance Sets Limits in California and India’s ban on rice exports raises fear of global food price rises
Both may look unrelated, but they share global warming as a common cause. Insurance companies don’t want to insure homes in California due to the wildfire risks, and India’s export ban is due to heavy rain damaging crops. This may be how our life will be; a slowly declining quality of life where we can’t afford the things we took for granted.