Initiator Creator - Initiator Creator - Issue 16

Initiator Creator - Issue #16

​By Saurabh Y. // 23 May 2020

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Developer

​Three bugs in the Go MySQL Driver​

Although GitHub.com is still a Rails monolith, over the past few years Github begun the process of extracting critical functionality from the main application, by rewriting some of the code in Go. But they have experienced major issues with high latencies when opening new TCP connections.

​IBM Equal Access: Automated accessibility checker for web projects​

IBM Equal Access Accessibility Checker contains tools to automate accessibility checking from a browser or in a continuous development/build environment

​New.CSS- Write modern websites using only HTML​

"new.css is a classless CSS framework to write modern websites using only HTML. It's ~4.5kb. It's perfect for- A dead-simple blog, Collecting your most used links, Making a simple ""about me"" site, Rendering markdown-generated HTML."

​ScoutSuite: Multi-Cloud Security Auditing Tool​

Scout Suite is an open source multi-cloud security-auditing tool, which enables security posture assessment of cloud environments. Using the APIs exposed by cloud providers, Scout Suite gathers configuration data for manual inspection and highlights risk areas.

​Hand-crafted Go exercises and examples​

Using this repository, you can learn a great deal of information about Go. Inside, there are thousands of examples, exercises and quizzes.

Designer

​The Current State of Checkout UX​

Our Checkout benchmark database contains 15,900+ checkout site elements that have been manually reviewed and scored by Baymard’s team of UX researchers (embedded below), with an additional 11,000 best- and worst-practice examples from the top-grossing e-commerce sites in the US and Europe.

​The Fastest Google Fonts​

For the most part, web fonts nowadays are faster than ever. With more standardised FOUT/FOIT behaviour from browser vendors, to the newer font-display specification, performance—and therefore the user—seems to have been finally been put front-and-centre.

​Beautiful Examples of Login Forms for Websites and Apps​

Login forms are one of the most important user interface elements in mobile applications and websites with a members-only area.

​Using Calc to Figure Out Optimal Line-Height​

Although we can apply any CSS Unit to line-height, a unitless 1.5 value is the most recommended way to handle it. However, this approach has a maitenance downside: as you can note in following demo, it sets too much line height in larger font sizes. In order to establish an optimal readability, we must manually tweak it on every font-size increment, down to 1.1 on very large font sizes.

Entrepreneur

​A Guide to Distributed Teams​

How thoughtful systems (and lots of emoji) make for happy, efficient teams—whether your desks are distributed across floors, cities, or continents.

​It’s Time To Build a Slow Burn Startup​

What are the characteristics of companies which are uniquely suited to tough times?

​Everything You Should Know About Bootstrapping vs. Raising Money​

Ariel Winton talks through some of the many things to consider if you’re trying to decide whether it makes sense to raise capital. This advice comes by way of OpenView’s once-bootstrapped portfolio companies Deputy, Loopio and Calendly—as well as conversations with the founders of Tuple and Whimsical, two bootstrapped product-led businesses.

​Chilipepper- Create beautiful forms connected to your Notion pages​

Chilipepper forms are simple, straightforward, and designed specifically for your Notion Pages. Connect your form to existing tables, webhooks, and more.

Marketer

​Notion's Marketing Secrets for Small Teams with Big Dreams​

Small teams like Notion’s need to be super efficient with their time and resources, so it makes sense to be thoughtful about which people will be the easiest to convert. Once you know which audience will be quickest to recognize your product’s value, tailor your test content to that group.

​Learning From The Very Best: The Big Email Marketing Teardown - Outfunnel - A Sales Centric Marketing Automation Tool​

This post is less about this “declaration” but more about email best practices. A somewhat-subjective (OK, a lot subjective) and somewhat-scientific marketing email teardown.

​8 steps to strengthen your newsletter strategy​

Based on an analysis of more than 20 newsletters (including several COVID-19 focused products), here are eight recommendations to slay your newsletter strategy.

Interesting Read

​Exit the Haunted Forest ​

Enough is enough with that thicket of code impeding nearby work, trapping the unwary, discouraging the inexperienced, and exhausting veteran developers!

​Elon Musk has to decide: Does he want to be Steve Jobs? Or Papa John?​

The Tesla CEO is and has always been the carmaker’s biggest mascot and marketing megaphone, but the brand could now use a voice of its own.

Outro

🙏 Thank you for reading Initiator Creator issue #16

If you like to contribute in the curation process or would like to suggest an article then kindly drop me a message at saurabh@initiatorcreator.com or tweet me at @initiatorcreatr

Thank You!

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