Initiator Creator - Issue #88

​By Saurabh Y. // 09 January 2022

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Developer

​Don’t push that button: Exploring the software that flies SpaceX rockets and Starships - StackOverflow

Spaceflight, from the beginning, has depended on computers – both on the ground and in the spacecraft. SpaceX has carried it to a new level. We recently spoke with Steven Gerding, Dragon’s software development lead, about the special challenges software development has for SpaceX's many missions.

​Fuite - A tool for finding memory leaks in web apps - Nolan Lawson

Debugging memory leaks in web apps is hard. The tooling exists, but it’s complicated, cumbersome, and often doesn’t answer the simple question: Why is my app leaking memory?

​Hacker Laws - Github

There are lots of laws which people discuss when talking about development. This repository is a reference and overview of some of the most common ones.

​Patterns.dev - A free book on how to architect webapps - Patterns

Patterns.dev is free book on design patterns and component patterns for building powerful web apps with vanilla JavaScript and React.

​Why might you run your own DNS server? - Julia Evans

Instead of talking about the problems, I’m interested in figuring out – why is it a good thing that DNS is decentralized?

Designer

​Biased by design - Biased by design

A resource for cultivating awareness of when and how cognitive bias can be introduced into the design process.

​How to use and design a Tooltip that helps the user - UX Planet

Every design system should include a tooltip. It’s a little bit of text that appears when the user hovers over a UI element. Let’s take a closer look at this component

​Thinking Like a Front-end Developer - Ahmad Shadeed

In this article, I will show you my approach to think about a new layout, and how you can apply these steps to your work.

Entrepreneur

​Planning for momentum - Increment

For many engineers, planning represents the antithesis of what we love about building software. We relish exploring new problems, researching and designing solutions, and delivering code we’re proud of. But an inflexible or unrealistic plan can be a bucket of cold water that rouses us from our dreamy fantasies

​Investing on Instinct - Every

It took less than 12 months for Sequoia Capital to turn $11 million dollars into $495 million with its investment in YouTube. Interestingly, the investment memo for the deal has, by my estimation, roughly 23 grammatical errors. It is riddled with spelling mistakes, misplaced words, poor punctuation, and mislabeled competitors.

​Your 3 Pricing Strategy Choices: Grow, Skim, or Follow - OpenView

The hardest part of startups is making choices. Not decisions but choices. A choice is a decision between alternatives, whereby deciding to do one thing you are also deciding not to do another. Pricing strategy selection is a choice. Or at least it should be.

​The PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information - Forte Labs

P.A.R.A. stands for Projects — Areas — Resources — Archives, the four top-level categories that encompass every type of information you might encounter in your work and life.

​How you can "think different" - Product Lessons

We’ll cover three ideas that you can put into practice. You’ll see how Instagram created the illusion of speed, how a flawed feature turned into a hit product, and why it helps to start with bright spots when you join a new team.

Marketer

​How I’ve approached founder-led sales - Kracov

The biggest thing that makes founder-led sales different is that you’re trying to get to product-market fit and have to build a sales process from scratch.

​The Three Systems Beneath Network Effects - Every

An exclusive excerpt from a16z general partner Andrew Chen’s new book, The Cold Start Problem.

Interesting Read

​We need to reclaim our minds - The guardian

Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can.

​The power of self-reflection at work - Ness Labs

Self-reflection is also a tool that helps us understand where we come from and how we define successes and failures for ourselves. It is an opportunity to test our assumptions about the world around us and uncover where we can grow and improve.

​The Internet Is Rotting - The Atlantic

Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.

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