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Weekly Tech Tip #12: Unlock Accessibility with ARIA Attributes! This week's #WeeklyTechTip delves into the world of ARIA attributes, taking your accessibility game to the next level! ✨ We all know proper HTML structure is crucial for a solid foundation. But ARIA attributes act like superpowers, providing that extra layer of information for assistive technologies, ensuring your webpages are inclusive for everyone. Think of ARIA attributes as special labels you can add directly to your HTML elements. These labels tell screen readers and other assistive technologies exactly what something is and how it functions. Here are some key situations where ARIA attributes shine: - Complex Widgets: Imagine a fancy dropdown menu built with divs. To a screen reader user, it might sound like gibberish. Adding aria-role="listbox" clarifies its purpose as a dropdown menu. - Live Regions: Content that updates dynamically, like chat messages or social media feeds, needs a heads-up for screen reader users. aria-live="polite" or "assertive" signals these updates, keeping users informed. - Relationships Between Elements: ARIA attributes can define relationships that go beyond the visual layout. For example, a button that opens a modal window can use aria-controls="modalID" to connect the button to the modal itself for assistive technologies. A Practical Example: Let's say you have a standard <ul> list for navigation. To a sighted user, it's clear. But a screen reader user might just hear "unordered list," which isn't very helpful. Adding aria-label="Navigation Links" clarifies its function as a navigation menu. By strategically using ARIA attributes, you can unlock a more accessible web experience for everyone. It's a small investment with a big impact! Ready to Dive Deeper? We've got resources to help you get started: MDN Web Docs: https://lnkd.in/epE_G2hv W3C WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices: https://lnkd.in/e25HmYzj #ARIAAttributes #AdvancedAccessibility #WebDevelopment #AccessibilityAwareness #UX #DevCommunity #WebDesign #LearnToCode #InclusiveDesign #FrontEndDev

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Any tips on getting a @nextjs + @turborepo setup to run a bit faster? Cold boot takes ~20 seconds. HMR is about the same.

Totally agree with Dan DiGangi here. If you don't understand the overall strategy of a business, it's hard for you to align and be fully effective. This goes from leadership down to engineering. What are you doing to try and understand that vision? Link in comments to the full interview with Dan!

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Now that the Engineering team at Snap Projections has finalized the design of the upcoming SnapShot summary reporting feature, we can confidently share what your potential outputs are going to look like. When this new feature is released, you will have the option to create a 1 to 2 page executive summary of your larger report. What you choose to include is totally customizable. In the example below, we're showing what a two-pager SnapShot summary will look like for an incorporated client. This provides a visual representation of the client's proposed retirement income replacement strategy, showcasing the impact of recommendations on net worth, estate, and the overall feasibility of the plan. It's a consolidated view designed to empower informed decision-making and secure the financial future of your clients. Advisors, what do you think of this one? Any specific examples you would like to see created? #fintech #financialplanning #reporting

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Thanks for the insightful pitch strategies. When can I get a slot to pitch to you?

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🚀 Here is why the Government Needs More Product Owners/Managers! Contrary to popular belief, a Jupytr notebook and dashboard is not a product 🤣! Take it from someone that has launched physical, digital and IoT products! We need more product-focused minds working in the Government if we want to deliver maximum value! AI and Data experts are great - but if they don't know how to build products, they aren't going to provide much value! Product Owners/Managers: 👤 User-Centric Product thinkers focus on understanding and addressing the real needs of users. By integrating these professionals into government projects, services can be designed to be more intuitive and effective, ensuring a better experience for all citizens. 🔄 Iterative Improvement: Product management embraces iterative development, which allows for continuous improvement based on user feedback. This approach ensures that government services can adapt over time to meet changing needs effectively. 🔗 Enhanced Collaboration: Product managers are adept at navigating between technology, design, and business needs. In government, they can serve as crucial connectors, enhancing cooperation across different departments and agencies to solve complex societal issues holistically. 🎯 Outcome-Focused: In a world where measuring success through user outcomes is key, government projects can benefit from product thinkers who prioritize real-world impacts over mere output. This shift can lead to more sustainable and meaningful public services. 📈 Scalability and Sustainability: Government initiatives must be designed not just for today but for scalable and sustainable futures. Product people are essential in ensuring that services can evolve alongside technological advancements and changing public expectations. What do you think? Share your thoughts below. #GovernmentInnovation #ProductThinking #PublicSector #UserExperience #DigitalTransformation

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Hi community! Asking for advice - If you are a B2B PM working on Industrial applications, what podcasts do you listen to? I'm looking for new podcasts to inspire me and to be a guest. Although there are great podcasts out there, most focus on B2C, and if they are B2B, they focus on productivity or "simple" business applications. For Industrial applications, such as Energy, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Transportation, Climate Tech, etc., I haven't found many useful podcasts for PMs. So, if you are working on B2B PM for Industrial applications, what podcasts do you listen to?

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Reboot Communications And to many many friends and colleagues who have helped me refine my ideas about complexity and systems thinking, please let me know if you find this helpful and feel free to spread the url.

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Have you ever thought about how compliance laws are a lot like design systems? I recently spoke with Joe Toscano, founder of DataGrade, and he made a fascinating comparison. Joe explained how Brad Frost's atomic design methodology took an engineering approach to design: → Creating standardized elements → Templatizing them → Scaling them across a system This led to the rise of human interface guidelines (HIGs) from tech giants like Google, Apple, and IBM. But here's where it gets really interesting: Joe argued that privacy laws and regulations are like the ultimate HIG for product design. Just like how HIGs provide rules and constraints for design systems... Compliance laws set guardrails for what we can and can't do with user data. If we design something that isn't compliant, it doesn't matter how sleek the UI is. Legal requirements become the top-level framework we have to design within. That's what got Joe into studying laws - to understand this new "design system" for building products. So next time you're cursing a lengthy legal doc or trying to make sense of GDPR... Remember, it's all just part of the atomic design of compliance. — Do you agree with the analogy of compliance laws as the ultimate design system? Why or why not? Hear more of Joe's unique perspectives on the intersection of product, privacy, and law on the latest episode of The Minimum Viable Podcast.

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I'm writing marketing copy and wanted to share this. "Acceleration is found when there is executive endorsement and a cross-functional dev-led collective advocating for the developer audience and their experience." DevRel programs don't usually fail because the function is failing. They fail because there isn't executive endorsement and an internal dev-led collective advocating for developers. Hiring managers who bring in DevRel think it will drive the results they need, but they fail to bring the entire company along with them. 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬. If your marketing tactics are failing or you're not seeing the revenue you'd hoped for, you may want to build a dev-led collective and obtain executive endorsement for your strategic vision and approach with developers. Once these are aligned, you'll be amazed by the results you'll see with developers.

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I spoke with developers recently. They were telling me their pain points when it comes to waterfalls and distributions. They underwrote a deal in which they’ll make a profit for a few years, then do construction (which they’ll raise more capital for), and after that, they will refinance and hold for 10-15 years. Their issue is that their returns and IRR for both the GP and LP weren’t adding up. I brought up a few good points for them to start looking into and asked them how they would solve these issues. Was their model created for construction and to handle multiple capital injections? What happens when you have different investors contributing at different times? When is capital being returned? All of these issues are common occurrences and need complex solutions to resolve. Everyone wants a simple waterfall, but every case is unique. How do you answer these questions when you are underwriting? If you need help structuring and organizing these types of distributions, reach out and let’s chat. --- If you found value in this post, please like and comment. Follow for more content! If you want to receive my newsletter, direct message me! Any distribution or waterfall questions? Reach out! Need help setting up or calculating a waterfall? Reach out.

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I really enjoyed listening to this interview. Mojo's design takes into account many competing interests, and this conversation dives deeply into how the language was conceived and how it has evolved. For example, Python has become the standard language for AI and data science, but part of its success comes from a huge amount of supporting code written in C++. This two-language problem results in inefficiencies and barriers to progress. By building a language that shares the same syntax as Python but includes features that allow for direct high-performance computing, you can shorten the time between exploring an idea and bringing it into production. This is just one of the ideas covered in the interview, alongside comparisons to other languages like Rust and Zig, the relative benefits of static vs dynamic typing (and how you can get the positives of both through careful language design), the complexities and tradeoffs of memory management approaches, and why it's time to start migrating towards a language built in 2024 that finally moves us past the design needs of the 1980s.

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I've been wanting to have a side project for a while. And I finally finished one! https://utahtech.work/ It's a job board website for the tech industry in Utah. Behind the scenes it has a lot of cool features like handling payments to purchase job listings, email notifications, analytics, searching, filtering, and an admin dashboard. I have a large backlog of additional features that I will be building soon. Now comes the hard part... marketing and SEO! Side note: if you work for an SEO company, please don't try to sell me anything. I'm trying to bootstrap this thing and keep costs as low as possible. Currently my site isn't very useful because there's only one published job listing on it. It's the ol' cold start problem. So if you work for a tech company in Utah that's hiring and you want a free listing, message me the details and I'll get you added to the site. Free of charge! Like the tagline says, it's "The number one site to find a tech job in Utah". Maybe not right now, but someday soon! Will you help me get there?

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Over the last 2+ years, I've met with hundreds of ClimateTech startup founders, and I'm seeing them fall into two camps: the ones shutting down and the ones gaining traction. What separates them? The ones gaining traction: * are solving real problems * have happy customers * have REVENUE * got help from an accelerator * cultivated great mentors * pivoted quickly The ones who are shutting down: * never validated that people would actually pay for their product * spent WAY too much money * spent WAY too much time building their MVP * weren't 100% focused on providing value * were slow to pivot * thought they could do it all on their own What camp do you find yourself in? If you're not squarely in the former, let's chat about how Icademy For Climate can get you focused and moving in the right direction again.

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Why is disrupting an industry viewed as a good thing? Startup company pitches love to lead with "we're going to disrupt <X>" as if that's an inherently noble goal. I suspect this is primarily a US cultural phenomenon, but disruption is an inherently destructive, chaotic goal. It's defining your company's mission by what you're going to break, not what you will create. What does it communicate to your staff? 🔸That you prioritize doing this differently just to be disruptive 🔸To ignore what's working today and the history of why it came to be since you want to disrupt it 🔸To reject expertise in the domain to avoid falling back into patterns of the past The company mission I'd rather see is defined by the better outcome you'll achieve for others when you succeed. Instead of disrupting the automotive industry, how about enabling senior citizens to age in place by enabling low-cost transportation on demand? I want to work for a company that's not just against something, but for something. A mission that is focused on creating value and making a positive difference in the world. This sense of purpose and direction is what truly motivates and engages employees. Stop disrupting; start creating.

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Introducing "Confessions of a Builder" 🏗️ The road to building your own business is incredibly challenging. In my new newsletter, "Confessions of a Builder," I write openly about the challenges, mistakes, successes, and, most importantly, the personal journey through it all. 🔗 More specifics in the link provided. I hope you join me as we explore how to build wiser, faster, and smarter together. #Entrepreneurship #StartupJourney #ProductInnovation #GrowthMindset #Leadership #ConfessionsOfABuilder

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Love this Jobs To Be Done project brief template from Intercom. 1. What problem are we solving and why? Add the problem we’re solving (or speculative opportunity we are addressing), why we’re solving it, any links to customer conversations or research. Clearly explain all facets of the problem and how if affects different parts of Intercom. 2. Job Stories Describe job stories to make the value we deliver to customers clear, and what it will enable them to do: When _____, I want to be able to _____, so I can _____. 3. How will we measure success? Add how we will determine whether the problem has being solved. Qualitative and quantitative measures. 4. Scope Once high level product design is figured out, add the releases below, what is in scope and out of scope, and estimated dates for shipping to beta. NOTES: ­Do not add the solution here. ­ An Intermission must always fit on a printed A4 page. If it does not, you haven’t a clear enough view of the problem yet. Keep working on it. Always have active and upcoming Intermissions printed in your team area or war room. Always use plain simple English, no technical terminology or codenames. Write this document as you would describe the problem to a colleague face to face. ­  The PM owns the Intermission, but should always always solicit input from the full team. 

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Riddle: When is a USB Hub a Plant Seed? A: When Amazon says so. Email just received from Amazon: "This is to inform you that the following detail pages are at the risk of removal from our catalog. You must take remedial actions before 7/1/2024, UTC, else your listing(s) will be removed from our catalog. It is your obligation to ensure that the products you offer, comply with all applicable laws, regulations, and Amazon's policies ASIN: B0C4QBC3VF, SKU: USB3-HUB4A, Title: Plugable 4 Port USB Hub 3.0, USB Splitter for Laptop, Compatible with Windows, Surface Pro, PC, Chromebook, Linux, Android, Charging Not Supported Why is this happening? This product has been identified as a live plant or seed product that is listed outside of the SEEDS_AND_PLANTS or PLANT_SEED categories. Please update the product_type attribute to either SEEDS_AND_PLANTS or PLANT_SEED values as a path to reinstatement."

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There is some really good research out there on project delivery RAID related topics. Good research helps put project challenges and opportunities into perspective, and to prioritize areas for improvement and investment. For me, the frustrating thing is seeing stats with no citations (where did you get that info? I want to learn more!), or when I find a really compelling paper, then lose it. To share some studies that we find particularly interesting - and to make sure it's harder for me to lose it :-) we've added a RAID research page to our site. If you have some favorite papers, posts or articles relating to RAID management (Risk, Action, Issue, Decisions + Assumptions, Dependencies, Lessons Learned) please share so we can add to this resource! https://lnkd.in/gb9XX5z6

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