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Issue 261: Are you neglecting this developer skill?

Welcome to ISSUE #261 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: The oft-forgotten soft skills developers need, decoding macrodata refinement, and the challenges icon-only buttons represent for screen readers.

From the blog

The developer skill you might be neglecting

Ben and Ryan talk with Geoffrey (Jef) Huck, a software developer turned public speaking coach, about the importance of soft skills in the tech industry—in particular, speaking and communication skills. Their conversation touches on how Huck’s experiences with anxiety shaped his efforts to become a better communicator, practical techniques for dispelling anxiety and connecting with the audience, and the MVP approach to public speaking.

Interesting questions

What do the bins mean in Severance?

OK, but what about the goats?

How do short-seller research firms avoid insider trading?

Actually, it’s only insider trading if it comes from the Insider Trading region. Otherwise, it’s just short selling.

Why is homemade food preferable over replicated food?

So much for even better than the real thing.

How good for walking would a road made of gold be?

“If you start from the perspective of gold not being a precious metal, this is a functional idea.”

Links from around the web

What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?

What's in a name? For that matter, what's in a modern terminal?

CSS attr() gets an upgrade

New updates to the attr() function in CSS will make it more powerful than ever.

Fluid simulation pendant

A really cool physics exploration inside a tiny piece of hardware.

Misleading icons

How do you add meaning to an icon?


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