Studio Espresso Weekly - 01/03🤖
🐡 “Always remember, your focus determines your reality.” - George Lucas
Good morning friends 🙂 Woke up this morning to see “March” on my phone’s screen, time seems to actually be flying…
At work we have a couple of projects winding down and my schedule is becoming a bit more manageable in the coming weeks: less days full of meetings and more time to actually dive into things.
Our house and the move are processing as expected as well, we should have power by next week, then we can start the process of getting internet & TV hooked up (and I set up our network & WiFi and stuff like that 🤓).
F1 is back!
I’m really not a big car-person, but during the pandemic I (and millions people along with me) discovered Drive to Survive on Netflix, a documentary series that gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the drivers and races of Formula One. And like most people, I was hooked 😀. I really enjoyed getting to “know” the drivers and following them through the races and the seasons.
Season 5 dropped last week, just in the time for the first race of 2023, which is next weekend. Along with watching the races themselves, I also enjoy a couple of podcasts about F1:
- Shift+F1 (3 friends who also just follow F1, great for people new to the sport)
- backmarkers.live (YouTube & podcast, for F1 fans by F1 fans)
- The Race (these are actual journalists, usually on the ground during race weekends)
Also related and worth the read: What the NBA Can Learn From Formula 1 - stratechery.com
Web links of the week
- Mood Boards in UX: How and Why to Use Them
- A Guide To Accessible Form Validation
- American Cars Are Getting Too Big For Parking Spaces
- What is a team?
End Users Over All Else, Even In Our Tools
Written into the ethos of the Web is “Users over Authors over Implementors…” and I believe we must preserve this principle even in our tools. Otherwise we’re building an internet for developers and not an internet for everyone. — Dave Rupert
I came across Dave’s post through Mastodon and it really resonated with me. So much of web development (and technology more broadly) is centred around “look at what cool thing the latest new hotness will let you do”, without show how using said product or service well help the end-user of the thing you’re building on top of or with that service.
Anyway, go & read Dave’s post, I pretty much agree with all of it 🙂.