Initiator Creator - Initiator Creator - Issue 25

Initiator Creator - Issue #25

​By Saurabh Y. // 8 August 2020

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Developer

​Watch Your Containers: Doki Infecting Docker Servers in the Cloud - Intezer

The new malware, dubbed “Doki”, hasn’t been detected by any of the 60 malware detection engines in VirusTotal since it was first analyzed on January 14, 2020.

​Python Malware On The Rise - Cyborg Security

The low barrier to entry, ease of use, rapid development process, and massive library collection has made Python attractive for millions of developers- including malware authors. Python has quickly become a standard language in which threat actors create Remote Access Trojans (RATs), information stealers, and vulnerability exploit tools.

​50 Developer tools to make your life a little easier - Dev to

Fifty (plus) applications, chrome extensions, web apps, and everything in between that will hopefully come in handy at some point in your programming life.

​A Lightweight Masonry Solution - CSS Tricks

"The way Firefox implements masonry in CSS is by setting either grid-template-rows (as in the example) or grid-template-columns to a value of masonry. My approach was to use this for supporting browsers (which, again, means just Firefox for now) and create a JavaScript fallback for the rest." - Ana Tudor

​content-visibility: the new CSS property that boosts your rendering performance - Web Dev

The content-visibility property, launching in Chromium 85, might be one of the most impactful new CSS properties for improving page load performance. content-visibility enables the user agent to skip an element's rendering work, including layout and painting, until it is needed.

Designer

​5 TED Talks that will make you a better designer - Dribbble

What qualities make up the best designers out there? Truth be told, it has much more to do with how you think than strong technical skills.

​Fuse - Interesting Internet - Fuse

Fuse is a growing collection of creative reference and digital entertainment. New links are posted weekly.

​Proximity Principle in Visual Design - NN/g

Design elements near each other are perceived as related, while elements spaced apart are perceived as belonging to separate groups.

​How to design a landing page - 99Designs

Even though well-designed landing pages are much more likely to earn buys, they are sorely undervalued—with 44% of companies directing traffic to their homepage instead of a targeted landing page. It takes so much advertising, SEO and general marketing resources to generate interest for a product that businesses can’t afford to fail at the last step. But as much revenue potential as landing pages hold, they are only as effective as their design.

Entrepreneur

​How to Improve Your MRR Growth Rate (Without New Customers) - Barematrics

There’s a common misconception that the only way to improve MRR growth is by getting more customers. Not only is this untrue, but that mindset can dig you into a hole that’s hard to get out of.

​The 2020 SaaS Product Benchmarks Report - OpenView

The 2020 SaaS Product Benchmarks Report enables operators to compare themselves against their peers across the metrics that matter most.

​YC Startup Library - Y Combinator

Y Combinator announces the launch of the YC Startup Library. From fundraising document templates to tips on how to pitch, to strategies for navigating COVID — we hope this library offers something useful to every founder.

Marketer

​Niche Down to Scale Up: A Case Study in Ecommerce Content Marketing - Animalz

Ecommerce is saturated with content marketing. Companies like WooCommerce, BigCommerce, and Shopify dominate the search results with thousands of articles, peerless brand recognition, and almost unassailable domain authority. When you’re up against strong incumbents, the smartest thing to do is to stop competing.

​How to Build a B2B SaaS Marketing Program - Kracov

There's a lot of nuance to building a B2B SaaS marketing program, but I hope this presentation gives you a general roadmap for how to approach the challenge.

​Local SEO Community - Like Indie Hackers, but for local SEO tips and discussion - Local SEO Community

Local SEO Community is the place to discuss all things local SEO and Google My Business tips and strategies.

Interesting Read

​3 Reasons Why You Make Terrible Decisions (And How to Stop) - Mark Manson

Everything you do in life is a trade-off. Anything you say, do, or pursue has a cost and a benefit. Those costs and benefits may not always be immediately apparent — sometimes the costs and benefits are dislocated in time, the benefit being immediate and the cost in the distant future. Sometimes the costs or benefits are subtle and psychological. But nonetheless, there is always a trade-off.

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Outro

🙏 Thank you for reading Initiator Creator issue #25

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 DM me at @savydv​