Initiator Creator - Issue #72

​By Saurabh Y. // 21 August 2021

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Developer

​The strange domain names that developers bought - StackOverflow

Not every domain is serious business. Here's a few of the fun ones that Stack Overflow owned, as well as those owned by their community.

​How To Develop Your Business’ Technology Roadmap - Smashing Magazine

Software development without a roadmap is akin to driving off a cliff — an undertaking that seriously jeopardizes your product’s life. Here’s how to develop a business technology roadmap that ensures your project safely reaches its final destination.

​CSS Architecture and Performance in Micro Frontends - Allegro

CSS architecture is one of the most important factors influencing performance, what makes ignoring it harder and harder as the page grows.

​How We Design Our APIs at Slack - Slack

Developing your own API style guide can’t completely save you from making crummy decisions or preventing today’s enthusiastic choices becoming tomorrow’s regrets, but they will help you make decisions openly, honestly, and with clarity.

​The 2021 Stack Overflow Developer Survey is here - StackOverflow

Data reveals some fascinating trends in education, remote work, and web frameworks.

Designer

​Performance Design: Designing for the illusion of speed - UX Collective

Learn how the labor illusion and benevolent deception works to improve our perception of interface loading times.

​Four Factors in UX Maturity - NN/g

Improving UX maturity requires growth and evolution across 4 high-level factors: strategy, culture, process, and outcomes.

​20 ideas for better data visualization - UX Collective

Applications we design are becoming increasingly data-driven. The need for quality data visualization is high as ever. Confusing and misleading graphics are all around us, but we can change this by following these simple rules.

​Scenic Background Animations For Websites - Pixeltrue

A collection of 60+ free background scenes from around the globe - illustrated and animated.

​How to create a design brief for a Ghost theme - Ghost

Getting your theme design project right is important — here's a template to get you started.

Entrepreneur

​How To Address And Resolve Team Conflict When You're All Remote - Trello

In some ways, an entirely remote team has the benefit of avoiding a lot of common workplace conflicts. But in other ways, remote teams are ripe for conflict. Collaboration and communication can be a hurdle. And, when wires are crossed more easily, that can breed frustration, resentment, and tension.

​5 Commonly Used Idioms in the Tech Industry - GitConnected

Bikeshedding, rubber ducking, dog fooding, bus factors, yak shaving…what the heck are my colleagues even saying?

​Why Marketplaces Fail - Breadcrumb

Small and infrequent transactions are risk factors, but their impact can only be evaluated in combination with other, more important traits.

​The creator economy is in crisis. Now let’s fix it. - Substack

The creator economy is becoming the gig economy—but there’s still time to turn things around.

​Market Sizing Guide - Pear

A startup’s potential scale is bound by its future market size, and consequently “what is your market size?” is one of the determining questions that most VCs ask early stage entrepreneurs.

Marketer

​Organic Marketing Ideas for Entrepreneurs on a Shoestring Budget - Shopify

While paid marketing can be a great way to quickly generate a lot of traffic, this traffic is short term, it’s cost prohibitive, and you need to continually reinvest. Luckily, there are tons of other tactics

​How to Manage Content as a One-Person Marketing Team - Substack

Jason Bradwell of 'The B2B Bite' shared an overview of my process, toolset and other tips I hope helps the one-person marketing team get more out, quicker.

​Standing Out and Getting Noticed in Crowded Markets - Creative hackers

Studies show that humans make predictable decisions when faced with triggers. The brain takes shortcuts. It does this with cognitive biases. You can use these biases and combine them with timeless strategies to stand out in crowded markets.

​Five attributes of distinctive product marketers - Medium

There are a lot of skills that are clearly critical for a good PMM — synthesis, storytelling, cross-functional effectiveness to name a few.

Interesting Read

​How to Escape the Vicious Cycle of Distraction - Nir and far

The vicious cycle of distraction is what creates the feeling of not having enough time. The more distracted we are, the more frustrated we feel and the more prone we become to distraction.

​Emotional exhaustion - a leading indicator of burnout - Ness Labs

Emotional exhaustion is one of the most invisible and insidious of the three states of exhaustion, and is considered one of the leading indicators of imminent burnout.

​Cloudflare DDoS attack — the largest ever reported - Cloudflare

On 19th August, Cloudflare’s autonomous edge DDoS protection systems automatically detected and mitigated a 17.2 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack, an attack almost three times larger than any previous one that we're aware of.

Community Submissions

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​Flagpack - Open source flag icons​

Over 250 pixel flag icons Flagpack has everything you need for your ecommerce project. Being an open source project, flag icons are under continual improvement.

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Outro

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