Initiator Creator - Issue #93

​By Saurabh Y. // 20 February 2022

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Developer

​Sha256 Algorithm Explained Visually - Sha256 Algorithm

This website will help you understand how a sha256 hash is calculated from start to finish.

​Microsoft Griffel - CSS-in-JS with ahead-of-time compilation - Github

Griffel is CSS-in-JS with near-zero runtime, SSR support and styles defined with JavaScript objects.

​Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS - Leemeichin

As the name might suggest, this is how you connect to a database using CSS. It only works in Chrome, unfortunately, but you can provide any SQLite database you like and query it via CSS.

​Monorepo Explained - Monorepo Tools

Everything you need to know about monorepos, and the tools to build them.

​EdgeDB 1.0 - EdgeDB

EdgeDB is built on an extension of the relational data model that we call the graph-relational model. This model completely eliminates the object-relational impedance mismatch while retaining the solid basis of and performance of the classic relational model. This makes EdgeDB an ideal database for application development.

Designer

​Say hello to Roboto Serif - Material

The newest member of the Roboto superfamily is designed to make reading more comfortable at any size, in any format.

​Growing a UX Writing Practice - Lattice

You can push forward your culture without waiting for someone to be responsible full-time. These are some of the strategies that worked for us!

​Quick Guide to Inclusive Web Design - UXPin

Unfortunately, the word inclusivity is highly politicized, confusing designers about how to apply an inclusive midset. This article looks at inclusive web design, what it is, what it isn’t, and how design teams can build more inclusive user experiences.

​Icônes - Icon Explorer with Instant searching - Icones

Icon Explorer with Instant searching, powered by Iconify.

​8 Top Email Design Trends for 2022 - 99designs

99designs analyzed their incoming email trends and spoke to designers about their recent requests to compile this list of 8 inspiring email design trends for 2022.

Entrepreneur

​Want to find a great name for your brand? Embrace the strange - FastCompany

From Slack to TBD, there are incredible brand names that threw out all the rules.

​25 big lessons from small business - MailChimp

Life has thrown some pretty big curveballs recently, and small business owners around the world have had to get flexible. We speak to inspiring people on the ground about important business decisions they've made and what they learned along the way.

​I quit my job to make free web tools - NsLookup

Do I have a plan? Of course! Well, actually three. Each with a different amount of uncertainty and payoff. I'm not pinning myself down to a fixed plan. Instead, I'll work on multiple things simultaneously, and double down on what works.

​Microsoft Clarity - Free Heatmaps & Session Recordings - Microsoft

Clarity is a free, easy-to-use tool that captures how real people actually use your site. Setup is easy and you'll start getting data in minutes.

​7 Mental Models for Business Owners to Stay in Business - Ivaylo Durmonski

Starting a business, however, doesn’t mean that you’ll have a successful business. It’s like deciding that you want to get fit. A gym membership doesn’t guarantee that you’ll lose weight. It’s a journey. And this journey always involves encountering a series of “amazing” challenges. And this journey always involves encountering a series of “amazing” challenges.

Marketer

​Content Marketing Measurement, Demystified: How to Demonstrate ROI from Brand to Demand - StudioID

Connecting content marketing efforts back to business goals and proving out ROI has long been the industry’s white whale. In fact, in a recent survey of our community of storytellers, they ranked demonstrating ROI as their biggest recurring challenge.

​How to inject humor into your marketing - Zapier

When crafted with care, a well-placed joke or self-effacing quip has the power to unite, endear, or invoke solidarity.

​40 open-ended sales questions + how to ask them - Close

Open-ended sales questions are built to get your prospects talking, and can also help you control the direction of the conversation.

Interesting Read

​How the powerful clean up their digital past - Rest of World

Reputation firms like Eliminalia use legal threats and copyright notices to have material taken down around the world.

​How to Build Your Personal Productivity Stack - Forte Lab

Many have tried to lead us on a path out of information overload, and each “wave” of productivity tactics and apps valiantly attempts to solve the problems the previous one created.

​The science of self-love: the evidence-based benefits of loving yourself - Ness Labs

Self-love is not selfish. Self-love is about acknowledging the need to take care of our needs, not our wants, and to work towards self-betterment instead of sacrificing our needs to prioritize the happiness of others.

Community Submissions

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​Bardeen - One-click automations for your repetitive tasks​

Bardeen is an automation app to replace your repetitive tasks with a single shortcut and control your webapps from anywhere.

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Outro

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