2024.01.01 - Front-end Landscape Before 2023

Title: 2024.01.01 – Front‑End Life in 2023

Requirements & GitHub Copilot Chat & Shared Welfare & Chairman Mao

This Week’s Hot Topics

Front‑End Life in 2023 https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/QXMfnBdIxdJ5OQhlX2D-Bw
2023. Some front‑end engineers aim for big tech, others jump out of it. Some just want to get by, others keep grinding. Some hope to control what they can do, some have already started to take control. What will be your goal on the front‑end path in 2024?

The hardest part of building software is not coding, it's requirements https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/12/29/the-hardest-part-of-building-software-is-not-coding-its-requirements/
Why replacing programmers with AI won’t be so easy.

GitHub Copilot Chat now generally available for organizations and individuals https://github.blog/2023-12-29-github-copilot-chat-now-generally-available-for-organizations-and-individuals/
All GitHub Copilot users can now enjoy natural‑language‑powered coding with Copilot Chat at no additional cost. Related:

• Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023
• Things are about to get a lot worse for Generative AI
• Suno AI: Suno is building a future where anyone can make great music.
• Ferret: An End‑to‑End MLLM that Accept Any‑Form Referring and Ground Anything in Response.
• AI/LLM : Perspectives on the Near Future
• A 10,000‑word essay: The ultimate solution for AI‑assisted products?

In‑Depth Reading

The Past and Future of User‑Experience Design https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/yT0EsfsorbDr_wxYGHZ-_A
“User‑centered” will become a core part of many companies’ culture and be concretely embedded in strategy. Experience design will become a foundational skill for all business roles, a universal capability for most enterprises.

The IDEs we had 30 years ago… and we lost https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/the-ides-we-had-30-years-ago-and
A deep dive into the text‑mode editors of the past and how they compare to today’s tools.

So you think you work in a team https://sollecitom.github.io/software-product-development-blog/posts/2023/2023-12-31-so-you-think-you-work-in-a-team/
Let’s talk about teams, teamwork, and the role of management in software product development. Related: Self‑healing code is the future of software development.

Fresh Finds

• Future of Storybook in 2024 Rough.js: Create graphics with a hand‑drawn, sketchy appearance
• Ruby 3.3.0 Released Stirling‑PDF: https://github.com/Frooodle/Stirling-PDF Heynote: A dedicated scratchpad for developers The art of high‑performance computing

Products & Others

Zhang Chaoyang’s antidote for the “lying‑flat” generation https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/uAgo6wOYJd1fBOL3qQRwag
Zhang says you must be brutally honest with yourself: even when you’re terrified, anxious, and can’t solve the immediate problem, you still know there are more important things in life that must be done. If you have the breath, don’t stop.

2024 Online Public Course on Huangdi Internal Needle Techniques – New Launch! https://375007570.shop.n.weimob.com/bos/shop/375007570/6015096591570/6306596570/goods/detail/index?goodsId=124555219152570&skuId=201541745152570
Huangdi Internal Needle originates from the Huangdi Neijing and has been passed down privately for generations. This method is characterized by “six‑meridian differentiation, easy learning, high efficiency, and special safety,” truly embodying “its insertion is easy to use and hard to forget; its effect is like pulling a splinter, clearing snow, opening a blockage, or untying a knot.” To let more families benefit, achieve self‑health, and reduce reliance on specialists, Teacher Yang Zhenhai openly teaches this classic, easy‑to‑learn, highly transmissible, and especially safe technique.

Irresistible Momentum | Billions Sharing Welfare https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1786246138973569305&
In 2023 we moved forward with unstoppable momentum, sounding the clarion call for 1.4 billion people to embark together on a uniquely Chinese path to modernization. By improving people’s well‑being we solidly advance Chinese‑style modernization; safeguarding, developing, and enhancing the fundamental interests of the broadest masses is the starting point and ultimate goal of every effort. Achieving “modernization for a massive population” has no historical precedent; we must stay people‑centered, develop for the people, rely on the people, and share the fruits of development with them.

Why Mao Zedong “wins over” Gen Z https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/EI1zwEgqPJk1IGb7y8L4LA
For the post‑95 and post‑00 generation, Gen Z was born into the internet era. They have a broad outlook and display a valuable “eye‑level” openness, diversity, innovation, and inclusiveness. A few years ago a survey asked them to name their most admired idol—Mao Zedong topped the list. Recall the recent viral moment of “young people reading Selected Works of Mao on subways and buses.” It makes us wonder: what does Mao represent to Gen Z? On the 130th anniversary of Chairman Mao’s birth, let’s revisit his image in the eyes of today’s youth. Also see: The significance of this story about Chairman Mao that many people may not realize, Chairman Mao on the Chinese national spirit.

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Originally written by Ping Xia (平侠) and published in Chinese on Web技术周刊 (Web Tech Weekly). Translated and adapted for DriftSeas with permission.