Initiator Creator - Issue #116

​By Saurabh Y. // 28 January 2023

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Developer

​Minimizing the downsides of dynamic programming languages - StackOverflow

Dynamic languages allow for a lot of flexibility in typing — sometimes too much. Here's how to add some guardrails to your code.

​How Intuit improves security, latency, and development velocity with a service mesh - StackOverflow

At a SaaS company like Intuit that has hundreds of services spread out across multiple products, maintaining development velocity at scale means baking some of the features that every service needs into the architecture of their systems. That’s where a service mesh comes in.

​Azure OpenAI Service expands access to GPT3, Codex and DALL-E2 - Microsoft

With Azure OpenAI Service now generally available, more businesses can apply for access to the most advanced AI models in the world—including GPT-3.5, Codex, and DALL•E 2

​Building Products With AI - Readle

5Cs that can be used to bring some structure and product thinking to AI solutions.

​BarbasJS: Create fluid and smooth transitions between your website’s pages. - Github

Barba.js is a small and easy-to-use library that helps you create fluid and smooth transitions between your website's pages.

Designer

​The power of perceived progress: motivating users through design - UX Collective

A list of UX concepts and examples for improving onboarding, checkout processes, and low-converting user flows.

​Measuring DesignOps with the REACH Metrics Framework - NN/g

DesignOps success is difficult to track and measure. Use the REACH framework (Results, Efficiency, Ability, Clarity, Health) to identify and triangulate relevant DesignOps metrics, and use clear goals to understand the success of individual DesignOps programs.

​The storytelling power of simple design solutions - UX Collective

Designers often focus on visual problems, with solutions that are creatively visualized through rapid idea generation. And most of us know that initial ideas are usually anything but simple.

​Documenting Your UX Writing Strategy: Why and How to Do It - Frontitude

When created well and integrated into your tech stack and workflow, documentation can speed up processes, align your team, make communication smoother, and ensure that you’re creating a consistent, valuable experience for your users.

​Neurodiversity Design System - Neurodiversity

The NDS is a coherent set of standards and principles that combine neurodiversity and user experience design for Learning Management Systems.

Entrepreneur

​How to make decisions async (and avoid endless meetings) - Twist

90% of decisions can be made async. Follow this 5-step process to do it effectively.

​3 time-tested systems to hold remote workers accountable - Twist

There’s a common misconception that it’s harder to hold employees accountable when they work remotely. More often, it’s the exact opposite.

​Your Guide to PLG for Complex Products - OpenView

As product-led growth (PLG) becomes more popular, we’re starting to see companies apply PLG techniques in totally new and different settings where they hadn’t been before.

​Shaping Your Authenticity - Subbu

Regardless of how leadership psychology researchers define it, the most common view of authentic leadership is leading while being true to oneself and acting according to one’s feelings, emotions, and values.

Marketer

​Building Your Startup’s Attention Flywheel - Nfx

There’s a concept in network theory called preferential attachment. When one “node”– a person, a company – gets ahead, more people want to connect to it. So it gets even bigger and more connected. It becomes a lodestone, a magnet.

​Figma’s Early Days: Growth Marketing Lessons - Medium

A conversation with early Growth Marketer Toni Gemayel on how he scaled growth marketing at Figma.

​How To Build An Exceptional B2B Newsletter - Find A Way Media

Newsletters are among the last owned audiences and marketers can say, do, and be anything. They can use sarcastic GIFs and expletives if that’s what readers like. Yet most newsletter marketers squander the opportunity.

​A content designer’s guide to product audits - Medium

A content audit is much less intimidating when you’re well prepared. The more work you put in up front, the smoother your audit will go.

​Building a successful ad campaign in 5 charts - Insider Intelligence

Advertisers need to be intentional about audience, platform, and measurement when serving up ads. Here are five charts every marketer needs for building the right ad campaign.

Interesting Read

​These Gorgeous Photos Capture Life Inside a Drop of Seawater - Smithsonian Magazine

A passion for the infinitesimal leads a photographer to discover the countless creatures that live unseen in the ocean

​3 Dos and Don’ts for Dealing with Negative Self-Talk - Nick Wignall

Unfortunately, like so aspects of the mind, our natural instincts for dealing with negative self-talk are frequently unhelpful—and often they only make it worse.

​Want to improve your memory? Try these unexpected tips. - Vox

Paying a little more attention and savoring special events can help you remember life’s moments, big and small.

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