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Initiator Creator - Issue 141

Initiator Creator - Issue #141 - ( Read in browser ) By Saurabh Y. // 5 May 2024 Presented by DesignThingy This Week's Notes:Airtable View is the New Standard To be honest, before Airtable came along, working with spreadsheets was dull, pale, and uninspiring. They were just rows and columns of boring data. But Airtable shook things up by making tabular data interactive, easy to use, and visually appealing. Airtable's emergence has transformed the relational database scenery, setting a new...

6 days ago • 4 min read

Initiator Creator - Issue #140 - ( Read in browser ) By Saurabh Y. // 28 April 2024 Presented by DesignThingy This Week's Notes:Directionless bull All our efforts get wasted when we get stuck in the cycle of directionless efforts to get better outcomes. A directionless effort is a bigger blunder than a wrong-direction approach. After all, you can’t say which direction is good or bad without reaching the outcomes, but changing your direction frequently will take you nowhere. You will be lost...

13 days ago • 4 min read

Initiator Creator - Issue #139 - ( Read in browser ) By Saurabh Y. // 21 April 2024 Presented by DesignThingy This Week's Notes: Ever-increasing Paradigm of Microsites The traditional concept of microsites is elegantly straightforward: build highly specialized small websites to target niche audiences for lead generation, sales, and brand visibility. Mainly utilized by companies, particularly for marketing (esp. engineering as marketing). These microsites are usually free tools, tailored to...

20 days ago • 4 min read

Initiator Creator - Issue #138 By Saurabh Y. // 17 March 2024 Presented by DesignThingy This Week's Notes: Phase II Starts Here This week's issue came 22 weeks after the last issue, a lot of things have changed. The purpose of the Initiator Creator was not clear from the start. Some of you know about and tested the tools that we created last year but we dropped all of them without releasing them for you all because of the poor market fit. After taking a long break and spending my time...

about 2 months ago • 5 min read

Initiator Creator - Issue #137 By Saurabh Y. // 08 October 2023 Entrepreneur Mediocre Success Is Worse Than Outright Failure - Every Avoid the messy middle and aim for unambiguous results You Can't Hack Product Positioning - Felicis This problem is acute in SaaS where it is exceedingly rare for there to be true product moats; many startups end up competing on distribution and positioning. Big Tech’s Biggest Bets - Matthew Ball Or What It Takes to Build a Billion-User Platform Next-gen content...

7 months ago • 3 min read

Initiator Creator - Issue #136 By Saurabh Y. // 24 September 2023 Developer TypeScript Origins: The Documentary - Youtube The Documentary features core contributors and community members like Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, Luke Hoban, Daniel Rosenwasser, Ryan Cavanaugh, Amanda Silver, Matt Pocock, Josh Goldberg & many more How Microsoft does Quality Assurance (QA) - Pragmatic Engineer Microsoft has played an outsized role in the development and importance of quality assurance across the...

8 months ago • 2 min read
Initiator Creator Issue 135

Initiator Creator - Issue #135 By Saurabh Y. // 17 September 2023 Developer Death by a thousand microservices - Renegade Otter There are multiple pitfalls to building with microservices, and often that minefield is either not fully appreciated or simply ignored. Teams spend months writing highly customized tooling and learning lessons not related at all to the core product. The Worst Programmer I Know - Dan North The great thing about measuring developer productivity is that you can quickly...

8 months ago • 2 min read

Initiator Creator - Issue #134 By Saurabh Y. // 3 September 2023 Developer The complexity of writing an efficient NodeJS Docker image - Specfy It's possible to save up to 80% of time to build and image size, but the complexity is not always worth it. 7 Principles and 10 Tactics to Make You a 10x Developer - The New Stack At the Shift conference, Brandon Bayer from Flightcontrol proposed that you can become a 10x developer by making 10 other people 10% more productive. 10 things you didn’t...

8 months ago • 3 min read
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Initiator Creator - Issue #133 By Saurabh Y. // 27 August 2023 Developer Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React - Josh Collinsworth React trained us that things need to be built specifically for a certain framework. But that’s not very true anymore, and it arguably never should have been. How can I handle too many expectations at a job I recently joined? - StackExchange I feel very overwhelmed and have started to feel I made the wrong choice to join this company. Moonbit - The...

9 months ago • 3 min read
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Initiator Creator - Issue #132 By Saurabh Y. // 23 July 2023 Developer A developer's guide to prompt engineering and LLMs - Github Prompt engineering is the art of communicating with a generative AI model. Can Web Developers Be Held Liable? - Converge Accessibility It's difficult or impossible to sue a web developer directly for their inaccessible websites. That may change, however, with a bill currently working its way through the California legislature. A case study on scroll-driven...

10 months ago • 3 min read
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