Initiator Creator - Issue #100

​By Saurabh Y. // 1 May 2022

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Developer

​You should be reading academic computer science papers - StackOverflow

You read documentation and tutorials to become a better programmer, but if you really want to be cutting-edge, academic research is where it's at.

​Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks - Pzuraq

Looking back at the last few decades of JavaScript development and at how far we’ve come. I think we can roughly divide it into four main eras:

​Plugin Architecture Overview Between Express, Fastify and NestJS - Fusebit

There is a high chance you have a meeting booked right now using Google Calendar, and that's not a surprise - millions of people use it every day to organize their events. As a result of this popularity, we can think of hundreds of use cases leveraging the Google Calendar API webhook infrastructure to help make life easier for teams.

​The complete guide to protecting your APIs with OAuth2 - StackOverflow

OAuth2 is one of the most popular specifications for API authentication today, though wrapping your head around it can be a challenge.

​The Joy of Small Projects - Dominick Schroer

Start a new project like you would start any project. Dream big and find a need that will help you and help others. The next steps will force you to question this dream so make sure you believe in it from the start. If you cant make it through the next steps come back here and work to find a project that will endure.

Designer

​The Influence of Neuromancer on Cyberpunk - Sabukaru

With enveloping settings and a rich vocabulary, Neuromancer shines like new chrome, and never ceases with action and pace.

​Same Energy - Visual Search Engine - Same Energy

Same Energy is a visual search engine. You can use it to find beautiful art, photography, decoration ideas, or anything else.

​5 logos worth revisiting from 130 years of branding history - It's Nice That

To mark the release of Logo Beginnings, author Jens Müller gives a lesson in logo history, unpacking five favourites spanning two centuries, from the niche to the revered.

​Best Font for Online Reading: No Single Answer - NN/g

Among high-legibility fonts, a study found 35% difference in reading speeds between the best and the worst. People read 11% slower for every 20 years they age.

​Material Symbols - Material

Fine-tune weight, fill, optical size, and grade with the variable icon font, available on Google Fonts

Entrepreneur

​How to Start an Engineering Firm of one - Autodesk

Discover simple rules for success from a mechanical engineer who took the leap and started her own engineering firm.

​Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time - Pragmatic Engineer

Hundreds of companies have no access to JIRA, Confluence and OpsGenie. What can engineering teams learn from the poor handling of this outage?

​Product Roadmap Detours - Stay Saasy

Custom features generally suck. They distract from your carefully planned product roadmap, typically add unwanted complexity to your product, and set a bad precedent.

​23 Tactical Company Building Lessons, Learned From Scaling Stripe & Notion - First Round Review

Cristina Cordova is well-positioned to share advice for both camps. That’s because while she cemented her expertise in business development and partnerships, she’s also been a product marketer in a pinch, managed teams of engineers, led DEI initiatives, and hired everyone from growth PMs to developer advocates.

​Why a company is not a family - TED

When companies overuse the word “family,” the results are rarely positive. Indeed, pushing for family levels of commitment can actually do damage to company culture and morale.

Marketer

​The Future of the Web Is Marketing Copy Generated by Algorithms - Wired

No human wrote that intro. It was generated by software from the copywriting service Jasper, inspired by the headline on this article.

​I stopped advertising everywhere and nothing happened - The Anti-Startup

I was spending time optimising the 'bid' in automated advertising system, trying to get the best bang for buck. Why was I doing it? Everyone else seemed to be doing it. This was a terrible reason to do it.

​Differentiate your content. And more tips for makers who are “bad at marketing” - Steph Smith

Steph Smith, Head of Trends.co and author of “Doing Content Right,” shared her perspective on what makes good content and what she tells every creator to do before they start their own newsletter.

​16 Ways to Generate Stellar Content Ideas - Ahrefs

Sometimes, content ideas flow naturally. Other times, you find yourself staring at a blank page with no idea what to write.

Interesting Read

​Blind Ambition - Every

Big tech’s highest-paid workers get real on an anonymous professional social network

​How to Think: The Skill You've Never Been Taught - Fs

No skill is more valuable and harder to come by than the ability to critically think through problems. Schools don’t teach you a method of thinking. Thinking is one of those things that can be learned but can’t be taught.

​How to increase your creativity by cultivating creative self-efficacy - Ness Labs

Creative self-efficacy is the internal belief that you have the ability to complete creative tasks effectively. If you can learn to leave behind the fixed mindset of “I am not a creative person”, you will be able to make more room for personal growth, exploration, and innovation.

​How I learned to stop worrying and structure all writing as a list - Dynomight

Arguably, list-hating is “correct” today in that most list-based articles are bad. But we’re in a weird equilibrium. SEO spammers long ago noticed that people liked lists, so they covered the web in list-puke. We’re now in a reactionary phase where “serious” people avoid the format.

The Big Day (100 Issues)

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It's been a wonderful journey so far. We have completed 100 issues and shared 2000 useful resources so far in the process.

🙏Thank You for being a part of this experiment!

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What's Next?

Now its time to take Initiator Creator to next stage. I never started it as a newsletter. I always wanted to make IC a learning platform for the generalists.

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The Plan

We are planning to analyze, summarize, and organize all the content that we shared using the newsletter to convert it into an actionable sources of content from ideation to creation to growth marketing for the generalist who wants to either start a side-project or learn to improve their existing one.

To check its reliability we have decided to make a new SaaS side-project by implementing all the actionable resources and sharing our learnings in the process.

The whole process will going to take 6 months. If you are interested to be a part of the journey and willing to be an early adopter then kindly reply to this email with "Count me in".

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Giveaways For You >

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