Initiator Creator - Issue #135

​By Saurabh Y. // 17 September 2023

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Developer

​Death by a thousand microservices - Renegade Otter

There are multiple pitfalls to building with microservices, and often that minefield is either not fully appreciated or simply ignored. Teams spend months writing highly customized tooling and learning lessons not related at all to the core product.

​The Worst Programmer I Know - Dan North

The great thing about measuring developer productivity is that you can quickly identify the bad programmers. I want to tell you about the worst programmer I know, and why I fought to keep him in the team.

​Building Meta’s Threads App (Real-World Engineering Challenges) - Pragmatic Engineer

How did the engineering team build the app, and handle an unexpectedly intense launch?

​Computers are learning to read our minds - StackOverflow

The home team chats with Gašper Beguš, director of the Berkeley Speech and Computation Lab, about his research into how LLMs—and humans—learn to speak.

Designer

​Complexity of Product Design in SaaS Companies and Startups - UX Planet

Exploring the Challenges and Triumphs of Designing for the Ever-Evolving Tech Industry

​8 micro tips for remarkably better typography - UX Collective

Small details that will greatly improve the readability and aesthetics of your website

​Successful iteration requires going beyond agile - UX Collective

UX design methods are cheaper, faster, and more effective at gathering data than “build, measure, learn” — but agile is designed not to take advantage of them.

​Doodle Ipsum - The lorem ipsum of illustrations - Doodle Ipsum

Just customize your doodles, grab the code, and use them on your web prototypes, landing pages, or no-code tools.

Entrepreneur

​Your customers hate MVPs. Make a SLC instead. - A Smart Bear

“MVP” is a selfish process, abusing customers so you can “learn.” SLC is an alternate philosophy that results in fast, validated learning, that customers love.

​From data-driven to decision-driven - UX Collective

Leading with questions, not looking for answers

​Do You Know What Type of Business You Actually Run? - Every

Figuring out which one fits your business can help you focus your attention, decide your profitability model, and nail down your marketing and sales approaches.

​How to excel at asynchronous communication with your distributed team - Atlassian

Cut down on meetings and remake team practices, without sacrificing effectiveness.

Marketer

​A guide for finding product-market fit in B2B - Lenny's Newsletter

Though there’s no formula for finding PMF, you can significantly increase your odds, and save yourself a lot of time and heartache, by studying the lessons of those who’ve made it.

​SEO gap analysis: Outrank your competitors with data - WIX

what an SEO gap analysis is, how it can help you outrank your competitors, and how to conduct your analysis across three essential areas of SEO: content, technical SEO, and backlinks.

​How To Find Your Brand Voice - Branding Strategy Insider

Your own voice is an instant signal that helps people recognize you; it engages not only the eardrum, but your other four senses. The same goes for creating a brand voice for social, digital and real-life communities.

Interesting Read

​Admitting What Is Obvious - Every

By contrast, admitting what is obvious is freeing and motivating. But it’s terrifying to do it. Sometimes the most obvious truths about ourselves are hard to see because the consequences of those truths seem so dire.

​The Surprising Power of The Long Game - Fs

The short game is intermittent. It’s as if Sisyphus pushes his huge boulder halfway up a steep hill, gets tired, lets it roll down the hill, and says to himself, “I’ll come back and do this tomorrow.”

​Why Tunnels Could Build Tomorrow's Cities - Every

The history and future of underground infrastructure.

Community Submissions

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​Dev Hunt – Open source Product Hunt for dev tools​ - Dev Hunt A launching platform for dev tools, built by developers.

Outro

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