Initiator Creator - Issue #85

​By Saurabh Y. // 5 December 2021

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Developer

​Overengineering can kill your product - Mind the product

Overengineering has killed more products than the absence of good development practices.

​Avoiding bot detection: How to scrape the web without getting blocked? - Github

Anti-bot solutions have evolved in recent years. More and more websites are introducing security measures. All this makes web scraping content more difficult and costly than a few years ago. Nevertheless, it is still possible.

​Ultimate DevSecOps library - Github

DevSecOps fosuses on security automation, testing and enforcement during DevOps - Release - SDLC cycles. The whole meaning behind this methodology is connecting together Development, Security and Operations.

​How To Maintain A Large Next.js Application - Smashing Magazine

In this article, Nirmalya discusses some of the complex problems that he faced while building and maintaining large Next.js applications.

​What's new in Lighthouse 9.0 - Chrome

Lighthouse has a new user-flow API that allows lab testing at any point within a page's lifespan. Puppeteer is used to script page loads and trigger synthetic user interactions, and Lighthouse can be invoked in multiple ways to capture key insights during those interactions.

Designer

​How to build stunning 3D scenes with React Three Fiber - Varun

This article shows you how to create breathtaking 3D animations using React Three Fiber (R3F). We’ll walk through setting up a stage, creating geometry, adding lighting and enabling post-processing effects.

​The State of UX in 2022 - UX Collective

The past two years have felt like two decades — and the pandemic isn’t over yet.

​Three Phases of Life for Design Systems - Daniel Eden

Broadly speaking, your design system will undergo three phases of life: reflection, anticipation, and influence. It’s futile to try and rearrange these phases or skip the initial ones, and each comes with its own benefits.

​Is becoming UX Designer before UX Researcher Worth it? - UX Planet

The simple answer to that is yes, it does help. The reason it helps is the UX design process includes user research, so it would always be helpful, but it’s not a compulsory part of the UX research career.

Entrepreneur

​Launching vs Iterating a Product: How They're Different - Intercom

The things that make a product team successful when launching a product are exactly the things that will make them fail after that product is launched.

​How Expensive Is Y Combinator? - Mat sherman

If you're focused on the capital, you're looking at the wrong side of the deal

​Reddit’s missing business model: Embedding commerce in culture - Every

A deep dive into the monetization challenges of Reddit and the road to profitability it can take by embracing creators.

​Intro to the collector economy - Substack

Collecting is the primary economic activity in aspirational markets. Aspirational markets are based less on the production of new objects and more on connecting things, experiences and places that already exist into collections.

​Two ways of thinking in product - Edo van Royen

In his review of Waldrop's book "Complexity" Cedric Chin highlights research by Professor Saras D. Sarasvathy which contrasts 2 ways of thinking - Causal reasoning and Effectual reasoning.

Marketer

​Marketoonist on spam - Marketoonist

Marketoonist is the thought bubble of Tom Fishburne a career marketer and cartoonist.

​How Do You Compete with Free? - Every

How do you win when your competitor has more money, better distribution, and can undercut you on price?

​A founder’s guide to community - Lenny's newsletter

When to invest in community, how to get started, setting goals, crafting a strategy, hiring, scaling, and much more.

Interesting Read

​Conversations on Polarizing Topics Are Possible. If You’re Up for It, Here’s How to Start - Behavioral Scientist

Many people don’t discuss controversial topics with their friends and family in an effort to avoid the seemingly inevitable fights and hurt feelings. But some topics are impossible to ignore, especially if you’re trying to understand or even challenge the opinions of others.

​High agency: how to feel more in control in your life and work - Ness Labs

Personal agency, or self-agency, describes the experiences we have when we set goals for ourselves and take action to achieve them. People with high agency feel a sense of control over their lives, and they can make decisions about what they want or need and act to meet those needs.

​How to perform well under pressure - Psyche

Ditch the tough talk, it won’t help. Instead cultivate your mental flexibility so you can handle whatever comes your way

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