Initiator Creator - Initiator Creator - Issue 28

Initiator Creator - Issue #28

​By Saurabh Y. // 29 August 2020

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Developer

​​​How to Use AVIF: The New Next-Gen Image Compression Format - Lightspeed

AVIF offers significant file size reduction for images compared with JPEG or WebP; ~50% savings compared to JPEG, and ~20% savings compared to WebP.

​​​Arwes - Futuristic Sci-Fi and Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Framework for Web Apps - Awres

Arwes is a web framework to build user interfaces for web applications based on futuristic science fiction and cyberpunk styles, animations, and sound effects. It is built on top of React, JSS, Anime, and Howler.

​​​D3 6.0 - Github

D3 now uses native collections (Map and Set) and accepts iterables. d3.group and d3.rollup are powerful new aggregation functions that replace d3.nest and work great with d3-hierarchy and d3-selection.

​​​A CSS-only, animated, wrapping underline - CSS-Tricks

Nicky Meuleman, inspired by Cassie Evans, details how they built the anchor link hover on their sites. When a link is hovered, another color underline kinda slides in with a gap between the two.

​​​Amazon Ion - Github

Amazon Ion is a richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchical data serialization format offering interchangeable binary and text representations.

Designer

​​​These are the fonts behind 30 famous logos - UX Collective

An oddly fascinating closer look at the nuts and bolts of designs we’ve all seen a thousand times.

​​​The Step-by-Step Guide for Pairing Fonts - LearnUI

"If you google for how to pair fonts, you’re going to get a lot of awful results. In the article, I’m going to cut through the crap and give you a step-by-step plan for creating beautiful, professional-quality font pairings." - Erik

​​​Heroicons - Heroicons

Beautiful hand-crafted SVG icons, by the makers of Tailwind CSS.

​​​6 visual design principles that UX designers should be aware of - UX Collective

These visual principles will apply across any medium — print, digital, web, you name it. They’re simply how our brains & eyes are wired to perceive visual information, in whatever form that may be!

​​​Why CSS Logical Properties Aren’t Ready for Use! - Medium

CSS Logical Properties are still far from having good support! Why is that, you might ask? Because this module involves many other properties — namely, every property that has a direction — and support for those properties and features range between having little to none at all.

Entrepreneur

​Startup Mistakes: First-Hand Lessons from 80+ Failed Startups​ - Failory

We've analyzed why +80 startups have failed and identified some of their common mistakes. Here're our findings!

​​​OpenStartup: The most complete list of open startups - OpenStartup

OpenStartup.dev is a collection of open startups along with their metrics (MRR, Customers). The data is aggregated from sites like baremetrics, twitter, indiehackers.

​​​How to start a successful membership business without a huge audience - Ghost

You can gain serious momentum with your membership business—even with a smaller audience. Find your first 100 true fans, cultivate them, and build a fulfilling and thriving premium community.

Marketer

​​​Why Small Businesses Need Social Media Influencers - Namecheap

While many turn to social media to be their marketing megaphone, there could actually be another way… for example… what if you got someone else to do the shouting for you? That’s essentially what a social media influencer is for. Could that really be smarter and more cost-effective? How?

​​​Outreach Tips (that are better than anything you'll find searching Google) - Sparktoro

Most every scrap of advice you’ll find on those “Top X Best Practices for Outreach” suck. Sure, they might fool Google’s ranking algorithm, but they’re stale. Repetitive. Obvious. Useless.

Interesting Read

​​​Organize your tabs and stay productive in Chrome - Google

Google Chrome shared a number of improvements, including tabs that load faster and new features that let you organize and find them easily.

​​​Structured distraction: how to make the most of your breaks at work​ - Ness Labs

Taking productive breaks may sound antithetic. Many people consider breaks as the opposite of work. However, we need breaks to be our most productive and creative. And, instead of waiting until our energy levels are too low, we can schedule these breaks to refuel our body and our mind: that’s the power of structured distraction.

Community Submissions

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Outro

🙏 Thank you for reading Initiator Creator issue #28

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​