Initiator Creator - Issue #99

​By Saurabh Y. // 03 April 2022

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Before we continue: Next week we're reaching 100th Issue milestone! We’ll have an announcement to make and some of giveaways and goodies for everyone here. If you wouldn’t mind sharing this with a friend or two, I’d really appreciate it!

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Developer

​The Code Review Pyramid - Gunnar Morling

Its intention is to help putting focus on those parts which matter the most during a code review (in my opinion, anyways), and also which parts could and should be automated.

​Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out - Feenk

As software is highly contextual we cannot predict specific problems. We can only predict classes of problems. To handle this, the key idea of moldable development is that the tool should be moldable after knowing the problem.

​Google Calendar Webhooks with Node.js - Fusebit

There is a high chance you have a meeting booked right now using Google Calendar, and that's not a surprise - millions of people use it every day to organize their events. As a result of this popularity, we can think of hundreds of use cases leveraging the Google Calendar API webhook infrastructure to help make life easier for teams.

​14 Linting Rules To Help You Write Asynchronous Code in JavaScript - Maxim Orlov

The following is a compiled list of linting rules to specifically help you with writing asynchronous code in JavaScript and Node.js.

​React v18.0 - ReactJS

The most important addition in React 18 is something we hope you never have to think about: concurrency. We think this is largely true for application developers, though the story may be a bit more complicated for library maintainers.

Designer

​Cancel as a button or a link? - UX Collective

When looking at a web app, a user typically has to deal with two types of interaction: navigation and actions. Both types of interactions are usually represented in a different but distinct way.

​What if you started your UX process away from a computer? - UX Collective

Starting with “real” material (paper/pen/glue/cardboard/etc) still has merit in a world that is all too quick to jump straight into digital software.

​Retro Electronic 3d Devices Illustrations - Wanna this

Retro 3d illustrations - awesome set straight from dusty 90’s. Designed to make your digital products more engaging.

Entrepreneur

​Be an entrepreneur who leads with transparency - TechCrunch

It’s natural to want to showcase positive news, but presenting challenges is just as critical. Challenges can snowball into bigger issues if you don’t communicate them.

​Should I Open Source my Company? - Supabase

Many people imagine that maintaining your business in public might be burdensome - but the opposite is true. There are many unexpected upsides that have made building Supabase - the product and the company - easier.

​The product-led growth playbook - TechCrunch

The PLG journey is never easy, but it can be a powerful path to enduring success.

​How to pick a side project strategically - NSLookup

Here's how to strategically pick a side project that has the potential to grow into a side income, or even create an opportunity to go full-time on what you love doing: making digital products.

​How about we make Product Strategy simple? - UX Collective

You don’t need to create a plan for the perfect product that is defensible for 1,000 years in some “meta-verse” like Oasis. You just need a simple program that’ll help your team navigate through learning about and solving valuable customer problems.

Marketer

​How to do community-based marketing - IndieHackers

Community Outreach, or community-based marketing, is a manual marketing approach that consists of three main parts

​How to Build Amazing Content Briefs - Content Harmony

Without clear instructions, a writer may produce something that’s wildly off the mark. While it might be well-written, it doesn’t meet brand, SEO, or audience requirements. That’s where a content brief steps in.

​How Engineering as Marketing Can Increase Your Website's Authority - Chameleon

How you can use a bit of creativity and a little engineering management to create powerful personalization software and tools that will help your company gain a marketing advantage over your competitors.

Interesting Read

​If you used to be socially awkward and shy, how did you improve? - Hacker News

"When it comes to new people and places, everything changes dramatically. My voice changes, my posture changes, everything changes. I can start being awkward in all possible senses."

​The psychology of revenge bedtime procrastination - Ness Labs

Bedtime procrastination becomes revenge bedtime procrastination when the decision to delay sleep is in response to a lack of free time earlier in the day. Staying up late and carving out some leisure time even if we feel tired and need sleep becomes a way of getting revenge on daytime hours with little free time.

​Why we stopped making Einsteins - Substack

Think about the advent of the internet long enough and it seems impossible to not start throwing away preconceptions about how genius is produced.

Community Submissions

If you like to share a project or article with the rest of the readers then please DM me at @ICforpreneurs or hit reply

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​Tab Maker - Create your own custom tab extensions for chrome​

A tool that helps anyone to build custom tab extensions for Chrome, with no coding required.

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