Initiator Creator - Issue #127

​By Saurabh Y. // 20 May 2023

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Developer

​This page is hosted on my Android phone - Pinggy

This blog is running on a $180 Android phone running Android 11. This post describes how he turned his Android device into a web server which can be accessed from a public URL, and how you can do it too.

​Inside DataDog’s $5M Outage - Pragmatic Engineer

The observability provider was down for more than a day in March. What went wrong, how did the engineering team respond, and what can businesses learn from the incident?

​VSCode config to disable popular extensions' annoyances (telemetry, notifications, welcome pages, etc.) - Github

If you're tired of extension that automatically show welcome pages, walkthroughts, show release notes, send telemetry and recommend things? Then this is just for you. This disables all of that stuff.

​Smol developer - Human-centric & Coherent Whole Program Synthesis - Github

This is basically create-anything-app where you develop your scaffolding prompt in a tight loop with your smol dev.

​The JavaScript Ecosystem is Delightfully Weird - Fly

Instead of starting with how JavaScript ecosystem is weird, I'm going to start with why the JavaScript ecosystem is weird.

Designer

​The image sorting experiment - UX Collective

The Visual Computing Group at HTW Berlin — conducted an experiment to evaluate image sorting. It was shown that images in sorted arrangements are found much more quickly.

​Eudaimonia and UX - UX Collective

Reflections on UX practice, “inner capitalism,” and the problem of professional ennui

​Error-Message Guidelines - NN/g

Design effective error messages by ensuring they are highly visible, provide constructive communication, and respect user effort.

​Agile vs UX - UX Collective

The worst thing in the world of development is the worst thing in the world of design: the illusion that we’re doing different work.

Entrepreneur

​Your startup idea probably isn’t venture-scale - Lenny's Newsletter

Like your idea and 99.9% of new startup ideas, they will never be “venture-scale.” And that’s OK. You can build a killer business without going the VC route. And you probably should.

​The journey to becoming a product-led company - Mind The Product

In this deep dive case study, Kirsten Mann, Chief Product Officer at Prospection, shares some learnings so far on the journey that their team to transition from a service-led to a product-led company.

​First Principles Of Product In The AI Age - Substack

Skeumorphism was a term often used to describe the disappointing incrementalism of many crypto applications; truly realising the technology’s disruptive potential required fundamentally rethinking products and experiences for consumers.

​The API Economy - TCV

Serverless architectures are abstracting away backend infrastructure behind APIs, which is leading to a decoupling of the backend from the frontend. These trends underlie an unbundling of the software stack and a move towards API-led SaaS, where software is consumed in smaller component parts.

​12 Important Agile Principles, Explained With Simple Examples - Digital Project Manager

The 12 agile principles with brief explanations as well as examples, and compare agile principles to agile values.

Marketer

​Should You Ungate Your Content? - Handley

Is it possible to grow your list and get better leads by giving away your content without asking for an email address? Without forcing a data shakedown? Without harassing people? Without keeping your content locked up, like the shaving razors behind lock and key at CVS?

​How To Optimize Your Free Trial - OpenView

Driving PLG improvements can feel overwhelming even for the most experienced practitioner. Today’s piece is here to help.

​Single-Page Websites and SEO: The Essential Guide - Ahrefs

In this article, we’ll define what a single-page website is, review whether it is good or bad for SEO, and run through some top SEO tips for single-page websites.

Interesting Read

​Skepticism: Why critical thinking makes you smarter - Big Think - BigThink

"In order to seek truth," Rene Descartes once wrote, "it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, all things."

​The Curse of Knowledge - Fs

Pinker calls attention to the Curse of Knowledge — the inability to put ourselves in the shoes of a less informed reader.

​The neurochemicals of productivity and procrastination - Ness Labs

Understanding these mechanisms won’t magically allow you to achieve your goals, but it will help you be kinder to yourself when things don’t seem to go as planned, and you struggle to focus on your goals.

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Outro

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