Initiator Creator - Issue #95

​By Saurabh Y. // 05 March 2022

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Developer

​Sustainable architectures in a world of Agile, DevOps, and cloud - StackOverflow

Do you design software with a big requirements doc upfront or let architecture emerge during agile processes? Is there a middle ground?

​5 things you don't need Javascript for - Lexoral

Javascript can do a lot, but it's really over-used. HTML and CSS are surprisingly powerful on their own, so let's have a look at some of the things you can achieve without Javascript.

​Atropos - Stunning touch-friendly 3D parallax hover effects - Atropos

Atropos is a lightweight, free and open-source JavaScript library to create stunning touch-friendly 3D parallax hover effects.

​A new year, a new MDN - Mozilla

With over 45,000 contributors and numerous developers and designers. It’s no surprise that the user experience became somewhat inconsistent throughout the website.

​New CSS Features In 2022 - Smashing Magazine

2022 is shaping up to be a pretty great year for CSS, with a plethora of new features on the horizon. Some are already starting to land in browsers, others are likely to gain widespread browser support in 2022

Designer

​UX Designers and Content Designers: A Framework for Collaboration - Indeed Design

A director explains how his team got everyone on the same page.

​Annual Awards 2021 - Discover the best of the Web on Awwwards - Awwwards

You adjusted, you evolved and you excelled. The bar was raised higher and higher, digital experiences became more spectacular, more innovative and more beautiful.

​Huemint - AI color palette generator - Huemint

Huemint uses machine learning to create unique color schemes for your brand, website or graphic.

​comiCSS - A webcomic about CSS. Coded in CSS - comiCSS

It is a collection of webcomics coded in HTML in CSS.

​A UX case study on Gmail - Built for mars

Gmail has more than 1.8 billion active users, with 44% of Americans opting to use it as their email solution—in other words; it's huge.

Entrepreneur

​Planning in the Dark: Planning for Product-Market Fit - Increment

When planning product development before you have product-market fit, continual iteration and getting comfortable with discomfort can help light the way.

​Navigating Your SaaS Product Launch, Lead Generation, and Enterprise Sales: Starting From the Bottom-Up - OpenView

Intuition aligned with the strategy we refer to today as product-led growth (PLG), also known as bottom-up—a reference to how adoption starts from end users at “the bottom” of the enterprise and works its way up and through the entire org.

​The Dangers and Pitfalls of Joint Ventures - Scalable

Avoid These Risk Factors and Make Sure You're Not Sacrificing Profitability.

Marketer

​Side Project Marketing: What Is It & How to Do It - Failory

In this article, Nicolas Cerdeira, Founder of Failory, go over what Side Project Marketing (aka. Engineering as Marketing) is, a 3-step process to do it, and lots of examples of startups using it.

​The science of when to post on social media - Ariyh

Post ‘virtue’ content (e.g. educational) on social media in the morning for higher engagement. Post ‘vice’ content (e.g. entertainment, memes, shopping) towards the evening.

​How to Build a Topic Cluster - Ahrefs

Lots of SEOs seem to be raving about the benefits of topic clusters at the moment. But do topic clusters live up to the hype, or are they just another buzzword?

​ContentIdeas - Discover top content ranked by social shares - ContentIdeas

Curate trending content for better social presence, get ideas for your next blog posts, find new link building opportunities or just stay updated with the industry.

Interesting Read

​Thought Experiment: How Einstein Solved Difficult Problems - Fs

Thought experiments are a classic tool used by many great thinkers. They enable us to explore impossible situations and predict their implications and outcomes. Mastering thought experiments can help you confront difficult questions and anticipate (and prevent) problems.

​Overwhelm: The Survival Guide - Zen Habits

What can we do? It turns out, there are some powerful things we can practice with overwhelm, and there are some practical things we can do as well.

​The impact of the Pink Elephant Paradox on our emotions and decisions - Ness Labs

Learning how to manage obsessive or intrusive thoughts can help you to avoid the associated pitfalls of negative emotions, distractibility, and poor decision-making.

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Outro

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