Initiator Creator - Issue #91

​By Saurabh Y. // 06 February 2022

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Developer

​Researchers Build AI That Builds AI - Quanta Magazine

By using hypernetworks, researchers can now preemptively fine-tune artificial neural networks, saving some of the time and expense of training.

​Memory leaks: the forgotten side of web performance - Read the Tea Leaves

Even those who have poked around in the browser DevTools to dabble in the arcane art of memory leak detection have probably found the experience… daunting. The effort-to-payoff ratio is disappointingly high, especially compared to the hundreds of other things that are important in web development, like security and accessibility.

​Reverse-engineering a Discord malware - ITNext

This post will encourage people to be more considerate when downloading executables from untrusted sources and will help some others to see how we can reverse NodeJS malwares, which are more and more used nowadays.

​fetch() In Node.js Core: Why You Should Care - Fusebit

fetch() support has been a long-requested addition by many, who want to write cross-platform HTTP request code and are familiar with the fetch() API shape and call patterns.

​Simple.css - A classless CSS framework - Simple CSS

A classless CSS framework that makes semantic HTML look good.

Designer

​Your one size fits all persona doesn’t work and what to do about it - UX Collective

This article will help you understand if your personas are imbued with unintentional bias or represent only a stereotype, and how to shift your approach to create inclusive personas.

​Logo design: 15 golden rules for crafting logos - Creative Bloq

Getting started in logo design? Here's everything to know before setting out on a brand identity project.

​Click and Swap, our alternative to Drag and Drop - ContentSquare

At Contentsquare, we gather hundreds of metrics about user interactions on the websites of our customers.

​Why designers should remove “Hooked” from their reading list - UX Collective

Nir Eyal is a business person, and, as such, the book is almost never user-centric, but most of it is heavily business-centric. And this wouldn’t be an issue, per se, if it wasn’t that the book is promoting what I believe is a toxic way of doing product design.

​The ultimate guide to design project management - Teamwork

In this complete guide to design project management for marketing agencies, we’ll share more on why these teams have unique challenges and what design leaders can do to keep clients happy while delivering exceptional work.

Entrepreneur

​The State of Cloud Marketplaces: A Look into the Data, Trends, and Findings for Software Sellers - OpenView

It’s clear that buyers are racing to the Cloud Marketplace, like those offered by AWS, Azure, GCP, and IBM / Red Hat, and sellers are eager to tap into the Cloud budget to help their buyers get started fast or scale contracts fueled by cloud budget growth.

​Which should you focus on first: monthly active users or revenue? - Atlassian

Here’s how Atlassian's Chief Revenue Office approaches the chicken-or-egg question every SaaS company faces.

​Your guide to self-serve onboarding: How to get your product to sell itself - OpenView

Here are the top seven onboarding mistakes you could be making. Read on to learn how to improve and get inspired by some of the best SaaS onboarding experiences.

​It’s Time to Embrace Slow Productivity - New Yorker

The central goal of Slow Productivity is to keep an individual worker’s volume at a sustainable level. A natural fear is that by reducing the amount of work each employee tackles at any given time, it might reduce the total amount of work an organization is able to complete, making it less competitive. This fear is unfounded.

​12 Things About Product-Market Fit - A16Z

The product/market fit (PMF) concept was developed and named by Andy Rachleff. The core of Rachleff’s idea for PMF was based on his analysis of the investing style of the pioneering venture capitalist and Sequoia founder Don Valentine.

Marketer

​Your Guide to Product Qualified Leads - OpenView

Product Qualified Leads (PQLs) are users who signal their buying intent based on product usage rather than just traditional marketing or sales qualification.

​These 20 A/B Testing Variables Measure Successful Marketing Campaigns - Hubspot

The following testing variables can reveal valuable opportunities to optimize and improve the performance of your marketing initiatives.

​First 100 Users - First 100 Users

100 ideas to get your startup's first 100 users with clear, step-by-step instructions.

Interesting Read

​The history of the fork: When we started using forks and how their design changed over time - Slate

Knives and spoons are ancient. But we’ve only been eating with forks for a few centuries.

​How To Tame Your Wandering Mind and Refocus - Nir and far

Researchers believe that when a task isn’t sufficiently rewarding, our brains search for something more interesting to think about.

​Learned optimism: how to cultivate a talent for positive thinking - Ness Labs

Learned optimism is the concept that a positive mindset can be cultivated, even in those with pessimistic tendencies.

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