Initiator Creator - Issue #106

​By Saurabh Y. // 19 June 2022

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Developer

​Ethical AI isn’t just how you build it, it's how you use it - StackOverflow

What good is removing biases from a robot that turns grandmothers into smoothies?

​Microvium - A Javascript engine for microcontrollers - Coder Mike

Microvium may be the smallest JavaScript engine out there, but it still packs a punch in terms of features.

​JavaScript Hydration Is a Workaround, Not a Solution - The New Stack

It’s not the solution; it’s a hack that consumes memory and slows down startup, especially on mobile.

​Best practices to increase the speed for Next.js apps - StackOverflow

Next.js is a powerful yet simple framework, though developers still struggle to increase the speed of their applications. Here's how you can make those apps faster.

​Faster JavaScript Builds with Metro - Medium

How Airbnb migrated from Webpack to Metro and made the development feedback loop nearly instantaneous, the largest production build 50% faster, with marginal end-user runtime improvements.

Designer

​Luxury Shopping User Groups and Journeys - NN/g

There are four primary categories of luxury shoppers: window shoppers, personal stylists, occasional splurgers, and big spenders. Luxury brands often fail their customers during the “consider” phase of their journey.

​Designing the perfect button - WIX UX

Everything you need to know about what makes a button great.

​Component Encyclopedia - Storybook

The fastest way to level up in UI development is to observe what your peers do. That way, you can experiment with their techniques in your own projects.

​A Very, Very Tiny Grammar of Graphics - Observable

You'll find a walkthrough of the G4rammar of Graphics and how you might implement data viz framework based on it.

​Accessible writing is just good writing - Writer

Accessibility has become part of the mainstream content conversation, and organizations are learning a lot more about what’s at stake and how to do a better job at making their content available to a wider audience.

Entrepreneur

​Metrics to focus on before and after product/market fit. How to better understand your product at different stages? - Go Practice

It helps businesses understand whether their product has market appeal and they can dive into the product growth stage with confidence.

​Startup Founder Agreement: The 13 Components to Include - Failory

It’s important to take care of some paperwork to formalize the partnership with your startup’s co-founder(s) before you get too far into the business side of things.

​A Framework for Navigating Down Markets - Future

In this post, we go through the diagnostic framework that we use when we sit down with founders: reevaluate your valuation, understand your burn multiples, and build scenario plans.

​Age of Connected Work: 3 Security Considerations - OpenView

Here are three of the security implications of the Age of Connected Work, and emerging startups that are helping security leaders get ahead of them.

​The Evolution of The Subscription Business Model - Substack

Exploring the world of in-app payments, usage-based pricing (UBP) and decentralized finance as it pertains to subscriptions

Marketer

​How 360Learning Grew from 0 to 76k Pageviews Through SEO Experimentation - Animalz

Over the past two years, 360Learning, the LMS for collaborative learning, has grown its blog from zero to 75,877 monthly pageviews — no mean feat in the face of COVID, increased competition, and unprecedented uncertainty.

​Genuine VS toxic positivity - Readable

‘Toxic positivity’ is a relatively new term. It refers to positivity to the point of excess. It is predominantly a social media phenomenon. But, it has bled into our behaviour in daily life. Ironically, it fosters a negative culture.

​Email Personalization and Data Privacy Laws - Mailjet

Personalization is important in an advanced email strategy, but how can all that data impact privacy concerns and compliance? Find out what our data protection officer has to say about balancing email personalization with privacy.

​5 Rules to Do Landing Page Testing Right - Unbounce

There are marketing rules you never want to break (if you want successful tests) and I’m going to share exactly how KlientBoost gets there.

​SaaS content marketing: The ultimate (but simple) guide - Marketer Milk

This will be one of those articles that you read and refer to often. We are about to go over what content to create, how to create it, how to think about distribution, how to track ROI, how to find outsourced writers, and more.

Interesting Read

​The Six Forces That Fuel Friendship - The Atlantic

"I’ve spent more than three years interviewing friends for “The Friendship Files.” Here’s what I’ve learned." - Julie Beck

​The psychology of unfinished tasks: the Zeigarnik and Ovsiankina effects - Ness Labs

According to Zeigarnik’s research, an unfinished task will remain prominent in our minds because we know that we have left it incomplete. Zeigarnik explained that each task we start produces a form of psychological tension.

​Friction: The Hidden Force Holding You Back - Fs

How is it that two people delivering the same value to organizational outcomes, in the same role at the same pay, can have a massively different value to the organization itself?

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