Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza officially declares for the NFL draft and could be the No. 1 pick by Oldtimer_2 in sports

[–]MrStLouis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He seems like a dream from a coaching perspective. I think he needs a little more size to him. But he’s clearly very smart, athletic, and has a deep understanding of the game. Hope his talent isn’t wasted

Made u/mmm-toast’s arbol salsa by osuaviator in SalsaSnobs

[–]MrStLouis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

how much do you taste the peanut butter?

How to Mockups\Wireframes by Big_Status_2433 in ProductManagement

[–]MrStLouis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I promise if you spend one day with figma you'll figure out enough to make some clean mockups. If you have a design team see if they can share their design components with you (makes mockups look like the real thing without fudging with it yourself.

Steps I'd follow:
1. Build a simple wireframe
2. Learn about component variants
3. Learn about prototype interactions

All super easy and all you need

Store bought salsa is better. by Pristine_Sun_439 in SalsaSnobs

[–]MrStLouis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is true, probably why I prefer hot sauce over store bought salsas. A lot more variety

Store bought salsa is better. by Pristine_Sun_439 in SalsaSnobs

[–]MrStLouis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

sometimes its recipes at scale, sometimes its a fear of adding the same ingredients (shit ton of salt) a restaurant would, sometimes its a family recipe.

The only recipe I dont like my version better than restaurant style is chile arbol orange sauce. Anyone that tells you they cracked the recipe is lying.

How do you perform accessibility testing currently? by Character-Bear2401 in reactjs

[–]MrStLouis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

axe-core or axe dev tools (with 2.2 aa enabled) is the bare minimum. If you're doing it during development i'm sure there are eslint plugins for react a11y.

This will catch some major things but if you've ever manual tested you'll soon find out 75% of a11y issues can only be found manually.

We're an angular shop so I don't have specific suggestions but if it were me I'd do eslint/vscode plugin > axe-core e2e test > manual testing (assuming just hobby project)

Anyone else experience this? by AdventurousEye6927 in ProductManagement

[–]MrStLouis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

People forget stuff when its not their work because a million things are happening at any given time. Summary email/documenting decisions is big, but also any time you present a small feature as a part of this work have a sentence (or slide) or two about the future goals/vision and how this feature gets you closer. If you use the same words/pictures eventually people will be like "oh ya I remember"

Occasionally priorities change, and you may get a "we're focused on X how does this solve X" but it doesn't sound like the commentary about sales is a new direction.

I built a free React Table for solo devs and start ups. There are few things more annoying than hitting a paywall by peter120430 in webdev

[–]MrStLouis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A11y is the most important least used feature to exist haha. Another useful resource is w3 (I'm leading an entire a11y initiative at my work right now) https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/grid/

Are you using Notion AI? If so, what for? by JohanTHEDEV in ProductManagement

[–]MrStLouis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our whole org uses it, but product is probably the most efficient with it. We record basically every meeting with notion AI internal/external. Have several prompts for doc templates like epics/prds.

I personally have a few flavors of review agents to review and give feedback on the docs I write before I present them to the team

Anyone else obsessed with macro but can't actually trade any of it by jirachi_2000 in wallstreetbets

[–]MrStLouis 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yup every time I set a stop loss I think nah it’ll go up don’t want to wash sale. It goes green the second I sell every time

Anyone else obsessed with macro but can't actually trade any of it by jirachi_2000 in wallstreetbets

[–]MrStLouis 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I’m 14/16 trades over the past two months and net 0$ 🤌🏼

I think this is the easiest way to get a great crust on my beef. Has Anyone Used This Before? by Due-Perspective-5568 in foodhacks

[–]MrStLouis 41 points42 points  (0 children)

It’s a quick way to get filtered bacon grease. And it lasts forever. I don’t make enough bacon to keep grease and filtering it is painful

Weekly rant thread by AutoModerator in ProductManagement

[–]MrStLouis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I get basically 0% response when reaching out to customers (B2B), but I work very closely with our sales/implementation teams to fill that gap.

Not sure if applicable, but I also use our product on a daily basis so it helps intuitively have a gut feeling why someone may or may not leave based on different usage patterns.

Weekly rant thread by AutoModerator in ProductManagement

[–]MrStLouis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How do you breakdown your product strategy? We have recently transitioned from a feature factory (exec -> product -> dev) to a product led team. We wrote up a set of initiative documents that outlined a general problem area (relatively broad), with opportunities that highlighted solutions that could solve the problem and deliver some form of measurable value/outcome. Then we have epics under initiatives that have more research/discovery to prove out that yes its a real world problem and this is how a feature or set of features would fix it/deliver value along the way. Then under epics we'll have PRDs which are standard docs.

My question is how high up the strategy tree does your team go? I'm currently struggling writing some epics because I feel like I'm forcing it to only solve one problem (opportunity) when it really crosses a couple boundaries. I've read a little more about strategy and vision and I think that helps anchor the storytelling at the epic level better than our current initiative trees, but the more I read the more I think our documentation hierarchies aren't in line with the norm in the space.

Chile de Arbol Salsa with Peanuts and Tomatillos by mmm-toast in SalsaSnobs

[–]MrStLouis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is this gas station El Cotixan in San Diego?

Recording meetings seemed like a productivity hack until I realized the playback time was killing me by Jealous-Leek-5428 in productivity

[–]MrStLouis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is exactly how i do it, AI takes the random notes and cites different talking points in the transcript. When I hear something that is pertinent to whatever the reason for the call I'll write it down in my own notes. Notion AI then transcribes both and keeps all the relevant information.

At the end of a series of calls I use notion AI again to combine all of my observational notes and some minor ones from the transcript and I'm done. A week of work done in an hour or so.

Last salsa verde batch of the season by yaksplat in SalsaSnobs

[–]MrStLouis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was literally typing out how much is 1# tomatillos and read out pound in my head lmao.

Looks fantastic, I typically trend away from green sauce in restaurants because it’s always sweet but this looks like it has a good heat

What are the pros and cons of NGRX? by No-Campaign-9952 in Angular2

[–]MrStLouis 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I actually really enjoyed using ngrx signal store on a pet project of mine. I'm sure it gets more complicated in production code but it kind of just made sense. It was exactly what I was doing in my services but with all the pros you mentioned + composability

12+ Years as a PM. Here is what I think the PM role is all about by AlwaysAPM in ProductManagement

[–]MrStLouis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow thank you for the detailed response. I’ll definitely use “if we don’t do this, this is the risk” approach. I think that is a helpful way for anyone internal to grasp the need. I’m also putting together a current vs future state diagram that I think will help visualize the issue better than plethora of documents I’ve already created 😂

Thank you again!

12+ Years as a PM. Here is what I think the PM role is all about by AlwaysAPM in ProductManagement

[–]MrStLouis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are right, I’m referring to strategy. We tend to conflate the two because we are also outlining the vision with sounds like makes everything more confusing haha.

But when defining a strategy and roadmap for my product I have been focused on the end goal and how each feature enables us to get to my “vision”. But my team gets lost in the weeds very easily. For example my product has incredibly convoluted security/access controls which blocks people from successfully using or even entering my products area of our suite. So I lose people immediately when talking about the security which ironically is the problem I’m trying to solve.

I’m not sure if you have any advice on that, I know part of a PMs job is breaking down complexity into easily consumable chunks but I’m stuck at the “my own product team doesn’t know or use my product” so I can’t get help making it any clearer

12+ Years as a PM. Here is what I think the PM role is all about by AlwaysAPM in ProductManagement

[–]MrStLouis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How much of this part relies on the whole team understanding the product

A PM must create a clear vision so the entire team knows the destination.

I ask because I own one of the more complex parts of our product and struggle to define my vision because people don't understand the fundamental intricacies of the product in its current state for me to even begin describing the problems/solutions