Weeknotes: 30 October to 3 November 2023

What I have found gripping

• In Hanami, actions handle HTTP requests. They also determine which HTTP response to return. Furthermore, each action is a class

• Inserting the line below adds a parser to the Hanami app

config.middleware.use :body_parser, :json

• Colab is a tool to create Jupyter notebooks that are already hosted

What I have read

• How our biggest redesign yet came to be, Slack design: Miguel Fernandez

  (VP, Product Design) & Jaime DeLanghe (Sr. Principal Product Management)

• How Managers Can Make Casual Networking Events More Inclusive, Ruchika Tulshyan

• A People’s History of Tech: The Mobile Phone, The Tech We Want

Featured quote

We kicked off the project in earnest with a three-day in-person onsite for design, engineering, product and program leads. With the prototype as our guide, we started to sketch out the path to production. Which teams would need to be involved? How quickly could we move? When might we start bringing customers into the process? Which questions were most important to answer first? — Miguel Fernandez (VP, Product Design) & Jaime DeLanghe (Sr. Principal Product Management)

What I have watched

How can we do cross-functional collaboration better? - Teresa Torres

Further reading and resources

In English

• 12 Ways To Build A Truly Diverse And Inclusive Tech Team, Expert Panel®

  Forbes Councils Member, Forbes Technology Council

In French

• Reconversion et bifurcation professionnelle : savoir être atypique, Laetitia Vitaud, autrice et conférencière sur le futur du travail

Thanks for reading Sandra’s Weeknotes!