Initiator Creator - Initiator Creator - Issue 51

Initiator Creator - Issue #51

​By Saurabh Y. // 20 March 2021

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Developer

​21 Google Cloud products, each explained in less than 2 minutes - Google

Compute Engine. Cloud Functions. App Engine. Firestore. Cloud Spanner. Local SSD. Try a speed round of Google Cloud goodness with these and 15 more one-minute videos.

​The torch.fft module: Accelerated Fast Fourier Transforms with Autograd in PyTorch - PyTorch

This module implements the same functions as NumPy’s np.fft module, but with support for accelerators, like GPUs, and autograd.

​Ghost 4.0 - Ghost

Popular open-source publishing CMS released a major update, adding a new dashboard, membership features, integration tweaks, and some frontend changes such as responsive, and lazy-loading images everywhere.

​rLogin - The New Authentication Libraries for Blockchain Based Apps - Github

rLogin is a tool that allows the front end developer to connect their user with blockchain functionalities and self-sovereign identity models seamlessly. It provides a standard button and a pop-up that, within its different flavors, allows the developer to correctly authenticate a user following the Decentralized Identity and Verifiable Credentials protocols.

​Too Many SVGs Clogging Up Your Markup? Try `use` - CSS-Tricks

SVG has a <use> tag that lets us declare something like our graph footer just once and then simply reference it from anywhere on the page to render it as many times as we want.

Designer

​Design for the real people, not for the users - UX Collective

While abstracting the real person to a “user” level, we merely distance ourselves from the person that will use the product, who is a complex being, and apply to them a statistical metric of patterns that we try to copy and paste to many of our digital experiences.

​Why Does a Design Look Good? - NN/g

Visually aesthetic designs use consistent typography, establish a clear hierarchy, utilize a refined color palette, and align to a grid.

​20 Basic Color Related Terms You Need to Know As a UX/UI Designer - UX Planet

Sometimes, the words describing the color qualities can be pretty confusing. So Eva V. made this list of essential terms that UX/UI designers use frequently. You don’t necessarily have to remember all of these technical terms. Just getting familiar with these different concepts is all you need.

​Generate unique SVG design assets - Haikei

A web-based design tool to generate unique SVG design assets for websites, social media, blog posts, desktop and mobile wallpapers, posters, and more!

Entrepreneur

​Twitter is Reinventing Itself - TheVerge

Twitter recently announced that it’s going to be building a lot of new things into its product: there’s Twitter Spaces, which is a live audio feature very similar to the red-hot Clubhouse app. There are Twitter Fleets, which look like Snap and Instagram Stories. Twitter just acquired Revue, which is a newsletter product similar to Substack. And it also announced something called Super Follows, which will let people pay creators on Twitter for special content.

​The Era of Audio Creators Has Arrived - NY Times

A new company called Audio Collective has launched to help build businesses on Clubhouse as brands rush to leverage the platform.

​How to use data to remove features from your product - Pendo

one of the best things a PM can do is to retire features that aren’t being used or are no longer adding value to the product. To do this effectively, you need deep insight into both user behavior and sentiment–which is where data comes in.

​Make better decisions by running small experiments - Thinking Through

all the decisions that we do make, some of them will have unfavorable outcomes. There could be multiple reasons why the outcome went south, but often it's because of wrong/invalid assumptions. We can't prevent all bad outcomes, but we can significantly reduce them by making decisions based on data.

Marketer

​The Animalz Method for Writing High-Quality Content - Animalz

Writing is mostly thinking, and thinking is hard. To write well, you have to do a lot of thinking about your reader and about your topic. The Animalz Method for writing high-quality content takes you through this process in five steps, all of which just happen to start with the letter E.

​2021 Digital Marketing Report for Entrepreneurs & Small Business - Aweber

Aweber collected responses from over 1,000 small business owners and entrepreneurs from all over the world serving various industries. Over 60% of survey respondents classified themselves as either affiliate marketers, content creators or consultants. However, ecommerce businesses and brick and mortar retail shops were also well represented in the data.

​How To Use Video to Power-Up Your Email Campaigns - ReadWrite

A guide about the necessary steps you need to take to boost your email campaigns with video. We’ll see how to choose the right type of video for your newsletters, what are some of the best tips and tricks used by the pros, and much more.

​Stop thinking what others would like to read - Hrvoje Šimić

As a writer, you can fall into the trap of thinking about your readers too much. Will they like what you write? Will it resonate? But, the best writing is the one you don’t care how many people read. Stop thinking what other people would like to read and start writing about what you’re interested in.

Interesting Read

​Time Management: A Realistic Guide to Better Productivity - Doist

Based on a 2019 American Time User Survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, adults had an average of 5.19 hours of leisure per day, including categories like “socializing and communicating,” “watching tv,” and “playing games”. These 5.19 hours, or less, are the space you have for anything from side projects to self-care.

​Does Substack harm journalism? - Twitter

"Substack is a dangerous direct threat to traditional news media. But more importantly? It is a threat to journalism." - Dr. Sarah T. Roberts, Prof. UCLA

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​Waterfaller - Get customized developer tasks that boost page speed and core web vitals​

Waterfaller generates a custom list of tasks that can help you fix page speed issues discovered on your page.

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Outro

🙏 Thank you for reading Initiator Creator issue #51

This issue is sponsored by Safetywing. Safetywing is global health insurance for remote workers and digital nomads.

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