Initiator Creator - Issue #68

​By Saurabh Y. // 17 July 2021

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Developer

​This website is hosted on Casio fx-9750GII calculator - as203478

This page is hosted on a Casio fx-9750GII graphical calculator, running a SuperH SH4 processor. It's running a port of the uIP TCP/IP stack, using SLIP over the 3pin 2.5mm serial port.

​1 napkin and 22 lines of code, or how NS1 rewrote the rules of internet infrastructure - TechCrunch

It’s the most important primary layer in the modern tech stack for internet software, and its most intriguing evolution was written on a napkin in a New York City bar and translated to just shy of two dozen lines of Python code.

​Gamers Are Better Than Scientists at Catching Fraud - The Atlantic

A pair of recent cheating scandals—one in the “speedrunning” community of gamers, and one in medical research—call attention to an alarming contrast.

​Hacking the React AST for fun and profit - Swizec

This developer hacked his own website's paywall for fun and profit.

​Best practices for writing code comments - StackOverflow

While it's easy to measure the quantity of comments in a program, it's hard to measure the quality, and the two are not necessarily correlated.

Designer

​How Pixar Uses Hyper-Colors to Hack Your Brain - Wired

The animation studio’s artists are masters at tweaking light and color to trigger deep emotional responses.

​Academic articles every designer should read - UX Collective

While many of us predominately learn through exposure in the field, reviewing relevant academic research and drawing upon their findings as well can prove fruitful.

​Where did this “Interaction” come from?: A Brief History of Interaction Design - UX Collective

This probably can help fellows in HCI, IxD, UX, and product design to understand the origins of their passion/profession.

​Frustrating Design Patterns: Broken Filters - Smashing Magazine

Too often dealing with filters can be frustrating. Let’s get them right. That means never freeze the UI on a single input, provide text input fallback and never auto-scroll users on a single input. Here’s why.

​How to share your UX research - UX Collective

Tips for making reports your colleagues will actually read

Entrepreneur

​3 guiding principles for CEOs who post on Twitter - TechCrunch

Reputation and goodwill take a long time to build and are difficult to maintain, but it only takes one tweet to destroy it all.

​How to Become a Master at Talking to Strangers - Entrepreneur

Why don’t we talk to strangers more, what happens when we do, and how can we get better at it? It turns out, many researchers are asking the same questions.

Marketer

​Why Evoking Nostalgia Is 1 of the Most Effective Marketing Techniques - Inc

Research shows that people are 22x more likely to remember a story over a fact. And that's just any story--nostalgia prompts people to recall their own stories.

​A SaaS Content Marketing Strategy That Drives Inbound Revenue - OpenView

how do we go about identifying the types of search queries being used that would signal to us as marketers.

​The Importance Of The ABM Tiered Approach - Kalungi

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is a B2B marketing strategy in which Marketing & Sales acknowledge and align their resources to work together to provide a personalized experience to a specific number of key accounts.

Interesting Read

​We all know people who just can’t apologize — well, here’s why - Ted

People who can’t apologize appear to be tough individuals who refuse to back down. But they don’t do this because they’re strong — it’s because they’re weak.

​Curiosity Depends on What You Already Know - Nautilus

Curiosity is less about what you don’t know than about what you already do.

​Is there a perfect productivity system? - Ness Labs

It would be an impossible task to list all the productivity methods out there, but there are several popular ones that may inspire you in designing your own system.

Community Submissions

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​Startup Concepts​

Startup concepts in a comic book format. Understand complex startup concepts through simple explanations.

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Outro

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