Initiator Creator - Issue #122

​By Saurabh Y. // 11 March 2023

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Developer

​All JavaScript and TypeScript Features of the last 3 years - Better Programming

This article goes through almost all of the changes of the last 3 years in JavaScript / ECMAScript and TypeScript.

​Self-Hosted All the Things? Replacing Paid Tools With FOSS Tools - Tedium

In a world where every service wants to put you on a subscription forever, is now the time to start self-hosting your apps instead? Let’s look at the landscape.

​Plato - Airtable for your database - Plato

An admin panel for your Postgres or MySQL database

​Atri: Python web framework to build stunning app - Atri Labs

Build frontend easily using Atri visual builder or React code. Build backend using FastAPI.

​Ink: React for interactive command-line apps - Github

Ink provides the same component-based UI building experience that React offers in the browser, but for command-line apps.

Designer

​The Anatomy of a Good Design: An Analysis of 4 Sites - NN/g

Visually pleasing designs use consistent type styles and spacing, create a visual hierarchy, and utilize an underlying grid structure.

​Crafted Studio's journey to running a human-focused agency - Webflow

Discover how (and why) the Crafted Studios team built a human-focused agency and created an avenue for balancing profit and passion.

​Type Design Resources - Type design resources

A growing, public, collaborative collection of type design resources. Everything from learning the basics to running your own foundry.

​Which of the million UX roles suits you best? A personality type analysis - UX Collective

It helps us understand how much variety we can find in design. It shows that it can be very demanding, almost impossible, for a single person to cover all design skills.

​A Guide To Accessible Form Validation - Smashing Magazine

Each time we build a field validation from scratch, accessibility doesn’t come out of the box. In this guide, Sandrina breaks down what we need to take into consideration, so that nobody gets stuck on an inaccessible invalid field.

Entrepreneur

​How Product Strategy Fails in the Real World — What to Avoid When Building Highly-Technical Products - First Round Review

The biggest difference between building a highly-technical enterprise infrastructure product and a more traditional SaaS product is that you’re not just designing for human users, you’re also taking into account machine users

​The Cynical PM Framework, a business-first approach to product - Frank Tisellano

When you don't have clarity about your product's role in your business, it can be really difficult to have productive conversations about positioning, development prioritization, even how to measure success.

​Engineering Manager vs. Product Manager: What's the Difference? - Merit

Product managers and engineering managers are common roles on software teams. Even though the titles may seem similar at first glance, the two jobs are quite different, and the way a product manager and engineering manager interact has many implications for the success and health of the team.

​Creative Synthesis: Decoding the Process of Idea Generation - Jeremy Enns

To unlock our personal creative potential, then, one of the primary  cruxes  we need to solve is identifying the raw materials that we can most efficiently synthesize into our creative outputs.

​Fill your gut, then trust it - Substack

Many hard product problems are instances of the same single problem. Your gut has the solution to it (under two conditions).

Marketer

​How 16 Companies are Dominating the World's Google Search Results - Detailed

If you wonder where SEO and publishing content online is heading in the age of AI, there’s probably no one better to track and analyse than the companies whose search engine rankings are worth billions of dollars.

​How To Promote Your Business: 25 Ways - Shopify

This guide by Shopify walks you through 25 ways to promote your business, complete with examples and resources for getting started.

​Technology Marketing vs. Product Marketing: Which Is Right for You? - Heavybit

This article explores technology marketing and related concepts and gives a few real-world examples of how some developer-focused companies are doing technology marketing.

​Find & accelerate your marketing advantages to grow much faster - Mkt1

With the proliferation of B2B startups and the lower barriers to building great products, marketing is now the differentiator.

Interesting Read

​Why some people can't tell left from right - BBC

It can seem like an almost childish mistake, but a surprising number of adults confuse left from right and scientists are only just starting to understand why.

​The science of curiosity: why we keep asking "why" - Ness labs

Researchers tried to figure out how often kids ask questions. Turns out, a lot: on average, children ask 107 questions per hour!

​Curse of Knowledge: How to Be an Approachable Genius - The mind collection

It’s a phenomenon whereby those who possess more knowledge about a given subject find it difficult to relate to those with less familiarity. This can lead to misunderstandings, miscommunication, and even conflict.

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Outro

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