Initiator Creator - Issue #66

​By Saurabh Y. // 3 July 2021

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Developer

​How WordPress Sites Get Hacked: 5 Common Vulnerabilities & How to Prevent Them - Hackernoon

To help you understand where the weak spots are, here are the five common WordPress hacks and vulnerabilities that could put  a WordPress site in jeopardy.

​Github Copilot - A New AI Tool That Generates its Own Code - Github

Trained on billions of lines of public code, GitHub Copilot puts the knowledge you need at your fingertips, saving you time and helping you stay focused.

​Making JavaScript run fast on WebAssembly  - Bytecode Alliance

Bytecode is starting work on optimizing JavaScript performance for entirely different environments, where different rules apply. And this is possible because of WebAssembly.

​When CSS Isn’t Enough: JavaScript Requirements For Accessible Components - Smashing Magazine

To ensure accessibility of your interface, JavaScript is a necessary addition to accomplish focus management, respond to keyboard events, and toggle ARIA attributes.

​Google AI releases a Browsable Petascale Reconstruction of the Human Cortex - Google

The imaging dataset covering a cubic mm of cortical tissue with traces of tens of thousands of neurons and 130M annotated synapses.

Designer

​See the world's most beautiful book covers - Fast Company

These books are so beautiful, you won’t even want to open them.

​Is UX still viable? The unintended consequences of user-centered design - UX Collective

Failing to look beyond primary users can have significant impact on our communities, our cities and our planet.

​How to Draw a Wireframe (Even if You Can’t Draw) - NN/g

Even people with limited drawing abilities can learn to sketch a wireframe if they learn a few common conventions used to represent various design elements.

Entrepreneur

​Tough Questions to Ask Co-founders - Medium

As a startup founder, one of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is your choice of a co-founder. Therefore the first thing you must do is to take your potential co-founders through a careful vetting process. Don’t simply take skills, experience, and compatibility at face value. You need to dig deeper and ask tough questions.

​The Power of Product Thinking - A16Z

If you’re a builder aspiring to create something new and valuable (or someone who invests in such builders), having well-honed product thinking will help you — and the products you work on — stand out from the crowd.

​The Pyramid of Co-Founder Success - Nfx

Much has been written about how to find and select your Co-Founder — and that’s important — but what’s rarely covered, yet equally important, is how to manage the relationship over time.

​The 8 KPIs That Actually Matter—and How to Measure Them - OpenView

KPIs are the metrics that are most critical to tracking a company's performance against its objectives.

​How To Run a Pricing Project - OpenView

Running a pricing process in-house gets easier the second time (and the third time) once a company has a solid foundation. And this hard work does eventually pay off in spades.

Marketer

​40 One-Sentence Marketing Tips - Medium

Following are a collection of concepts to help you think differently about how to spread your message, connect to your customers, and make an impact.

​Google News SEO: The Definitive Resources List - SEO for Google News

This is a regularly updated list of official documentation, helpful guides, resources, and tools to help you optimise your site for Google News.

​Use This Two-Pronged Content Strategy to Convert More Buyers - Drift

Here are ways to develop a content strategy that drives awareness of your brand and product to a larger audience

​How to repurpose content like a professional creator - Ghost

Ever wonder how the biggest creators publish so much content on such a consistent schedule? It's not magic, but once you understand how this tactic works, it'll feel like it is.

Interesting Read

​4-Day Workweeks Can Boost Happiness and Productivity - The Atlantic

Reducing hours without reducing pay would reignite an essential but long-forgotten moral project: making life less about work.

​Not-to-do list: a conscious way to break bad habits - Ness Labs

While to-do lists are powerful, a complementary method can further increase our productivity: the not-to-do list. As the name indicates, it consists in listing all of the behaviors you want to avoid.

​The Ultimate Guide to Summarizing Books: How to Distill Ideas to Accelerate Your Learning - Forte Labs

Creating a book summary requires a surprising amount of creativity. Because the truth is, these are much more than summaries. They are actually reinterpretations.

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Outro

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