Initiator Creator - Issue #55

​By Saurabh Y. // 18 April 2021

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Developer

​The Architecture Behind A One-Person Tech Startup - Anthony Najjar Simon

This is a long-form post breaking down the setup Anthony used to run a SaaS. From load balancing to cron job monitoring to payments and subscriptions.

​New in Chrome 90 for Developers - Chrome

There are plenty of new things for developers in Chrome90. There's a new value for the CSS overflow property, feature policy API renamed to permission policy and there's a new way to implement and use Shadow DOM directly in HTML.

​Comparing the New Generation of Build Tools - CSS-Tricks

A bunch of new developer tools have landed in the past year and they are biting at the heels of the tools that have dominated front-end development over the last few years, including webpack, Babel, Rollup, Parcel, create-react-app. These new tools aren’t designed to perform the exact same function, and each has different things. Despite their differences, these tools do share a common goal: improve the developer experience.

​19 Realistic Habits To Improve Software Development - Better programming

In this article, Kesk has written 19 simple habits to save time when building software and for maintaining a good relationship with my coworkers and clients.

Designer

​The art of scientific intuition in UX - UX Collective

Can the seemingly opposing forces of intuition and scientific thinking be leveraged to fuel novel and creative user experience explorations?

​Skribbl - Illustrations for Everyone - Skribbl

A growing collection of free, hand-drawn illustrations brought to you by a global community of aspiring creatives.

​Are bad graphical descriptions better than no graphical descriptions to someone with vision loss? - UX Collective

More than 125K global websites use overlays rather than fixing their accessibility bugs. AI-generated alt-text used by overlays is not 100 % reliable.

Entrepreneur

​How We Bootstrapped a $1M ARR Email Client - Misssive

Five years ago, Philippe, Etienne, Rafael and Luis launched Missive, an innovative but somewhat hard-to-define email client to the world. Fast-forward to last week when we reached US$1M in annual recurring revenue (ARR)!

​Subscription Pricing: Learnings from publishers who dared to experiment - Twipe

Subscription strategies can offer a sustainable financing strategy. By now, the majority of the news industry knows this. The pitfalls of focusing digital strategies on advertising revenue are already well documented, but this recent piece in The Atlantic from Josh Marshall serves as a timely reminder.

​Adding is favoured over subtracting in problem solving - Nature

A series of problem-solving experiments reveal that people are more likely to consider solutions that add features than solutions that remove them, even when removing features is more efficient.

Marketer

​Persuasive Writing In Three Steps: Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis - Animalz

Great writing persuades. It persuades the reader that your product is right for them, that your process achieves the outcome they desire, that your opinion supersedes all other opinions. But spend an hour clicking around the internet and you’ll quickly realize that most content is passive, presenting facts and ideas without context or structure. The reader must connect the dots and create a convincing argument from the raw material presented to them. They rarely do, and for good reason: It’s hard work. The onus of persuasion falls on the writer, not the reader.

​When Choosing Marketing Channels, Visualize the Curve - Sparktoro

The curve is a simple concept that can help determine which channel(s) and tactic(s) might best apply to a given organization’s situation.

​6 Best B2B Services Review Platforms to Get Featured on - Hackernoon

The software development outsourcing market is diverse. Keeping track of new and established vendors and making sense of new practices is difficult. This is why both companies and software outsourcing clients need third-party authorities who can sort out doubts.

Technical Optimisation for Articles - SEO for Google News

Success in Top Stories is about more than just writing great headlines. The HTML with which you deliver your articles to search engines is a large part of the equation too.

Interesting Read

​"I'll Finish It This Week" And Other Lies - ArXiv

Here, Kaley showed which types of tasks we are the worst at completing in the originally planned amount of time (spoiler: coding and writing tasks), whether more senior researchers have more accurate expectations (spoiler: not much), and whether our expectations improve with time (spoiler: only a little).

​The Barnum Effect: why we love astrology and personality tests - Ness Labs

What do astrology, aura reading, fortune telling, cold reading, and some personality tests such as the MBTI have in common? They all exploit the Barnum Effect to convince people that the generated statements are personal to them.

Community Submissions

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Timelapse in Google Earth​

In the biggest update to Google Earth since 2017, you can now see our planet in an entirely new dimension — time. With Timelapse in Google Earth, 24 million satellite photos from the past 37 years have been compiled into an interactive 4D experience.

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Outro

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