Weeknotes: 3 June to 7 June 2024
Receiving professional feedback, inclusive environments, and conscious skill-building

What I have found gripping
Receiving professional, respectful, specific and actionable feedback makes a difference. Grateful for folks sparing a few minutes to provide some
Inclusive environments consistently help folks make progress regardless of their experience and/or skill level
Consciously building skills means focusing on the ones that are crucial with the right tools and resources. This is in addition to deepening one’s knowledge. It’s also about leaning on inclusive communities. See the framework below for more context on conscious skill development:

Creating a new database for production also meant ensuring it was in the same location as the hosting services of my project
What I have read
#706 — June 6, 2024, Ruby Weekly
Newsletter WoR #59: un web meilleur, Ruby 3.4 en preview, comment échouer dans la tech..., Women on Rails
The perfect site doesn’t exist, Michelle Barker
The do’s and don’ts of building inclusive teams, Benjamin Lampe
Questions to ask when starting in a new team, Coco Chan
Rethinking Text Resizing on Web, Steven Bassett
What I have watched
RubyConf 2022: Keynote: The Case Of The Vanished Variable - A Ruby Mystery Story by Nadia Odunayo
Featured quote
A more humane web is one where we can feel confident sharing our journeys, acknowledging our weaknesses, learning in the open, asking for help, and correcting with kindness. - Michelle Barker
Further reading and resources
In English
Issue 8: Finding Beauty in the Imperfect, Branch Magazine
What can digital sustainability learn from accessibility? Mike Masey
Imperfect design for a better future, Thorsten Jonas
In French
L’IA et le handicap : progrès ou exclusion ? Thanh Lan Doublier & Emmanuelle Aboaf, Mixit 2024
Réunions en non-mixité choisie : un moteur pour féminiser sa boîte, Laury Maurice, Mixit 2024
La grande absente : la communauté trans dans nos produits digitaux, Christopher De Paola, Mixit 2024
Qu'est ce que les champignons nous apprennent sur l'intelligence artificielle ? Marine Sobas, Mixit 2024
L’IA peut-elle vraiment être frugale ? Denis Trystram (Professeur des universités en informatique, Université Grenoble Alpes, UGA) & Thierry Ménissier (Professeur de philosophie politique, Université Grenoble Alpes, UGA)
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