💞 Cute names, NYC Slice and Clever Code
Hello there! Happy New Year! It's been a while, welcome to this year's first issue. So much has happened already and I'm looking forward to everything 2023...
💺 Design, Tinder own API Gateway and The ethics of reclining airplane seats
Hello there! I spent the last two weeks working on a lil’ personal project with SvelteKit — I’m ready to say I’m a fan, it’s such a neat experience! Although...
🍋 Lemons, Pokemon cards and Anime
Hello there! I came down with a cold last week, and have been catching up with all the goodness that was announced at the Next.js conf! It looks like the JS...
🕰️ Dynamic opengraph images, the Internet's time and Puns to bypass internet censors
Hello there! It’s been quite a week 😅 I had a family member ill with dengue—so the majority of my last week was just repeating to myself: “fuck. mosquitoes.”...
🔀 Google Maps, Mr. Beast and XState
Hello there! Happy Dussehra! This week I've been working on revamping my homepage content—it's been so, so long since I've touched it and it felt kind of...
👣 Carbon footprint, Laravel and Technical CTOs
Hello there! I'm back from React India conf—OMG it was the best time I've had in so, so long. If you missed the talks and wanna catch up, you can watch the...
🏒 Hockey sticks, Hacker culture and Getting Senpai To notice you
Hello there! I’ve been working on making some improvements to this newsletter’s archive over at sreetamdas.com/newsletter, you can check out my progress....
🌐 Internet's shortest URLs, Digitizing smell and Next.js 12.3
Hello there! What a week it’s been: I (finally) published the latest version of Karma! Who would’ve thought working on a VS Code theme update would take me...
📃 A4 paper, fake meats and Gen Z
Hello there! I spent most of the week finishing up the next version of Karma that I've teased earlier—I'm super happy with how everything looks and even had...
🤔 Why arrays start at 0, internet restaurants and The Big [Censored] Theory
Hello there! Wanna share this with someone? You can send them here 😄 📚 To read One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants "I wrote about a mad rabbit hole...
🌀 The open source movement, JavaScript and Karma v3
Hello there! It’s been a big week for me: something I worked on for quite a while is finally out! Check out Remote’s Employee Cost Calculator 👀 I’ve also...
🦟 Turborepo, GDPR for Developers and Mosquitoes at Disneyland
Hello there! Sorry I haven’t sent an issue in a lil bit, but Happy 🇮🇳 Independence Day! Wanna share this with someone? You can send them here 😄 📚 To read Why...
🎚️ Mantis, sliders and not-so-anonymous Glassdoor
Hello there! It’s been a long week with so, so many things happening. I set up my new workspace finally and it looks so pretty! Pics to follow soon, I...
😍 React Day Bangalore meetup, Lava lamps and the cost of convenience
Hello there! I’m visiting Bangalore (again!) for a couple of weeks—let me know on Twitter if you wanna meet up. 👀 I also attended a meetup for speakers at...
👀 Back after a sabbatical.
Hello there! It’s been a while. 😅 I’m back after taking the last month off—I got super busy with a buuunch of different things, I even visited Bangalore...
🤝 Friendly forks, some Svelte and anti-crypto toxicity
Hello there! I learnt a used a bit of Svelte for a personal minisite this week. It felt really neat and fast but I almost missed JSX! I realised that I’m not...
💫 The Return of the 90s Web, Docs for everyone and DALL-E 2
Hello there! I attended Devs for Ukraine, it was such a great conference with a stellar lineup—you can catch the VOD! 😄 Onto this week 🚀 Wanna share this...
🏎️ Fast, Rome Formatter and Code through drawing
Hello there! I spoke on a Twitter space last weekend, on State management in React—it was my first time and I think did okay? I’ve had stage fright...
🍅 Devs for Ukraine, An Anniversary and The Ketchup Conundrum
Hello there! Today's a special day: it's been officially a year since I started this newsletter! (and published it regularly 😅) It's had such a great...
🐟 Being an Imposter, Knowing when to say "No" and React Day Bangalore
Hello there! Hope you’re having good time wherever you are—it is officially need-to-take-multiple-showers-a-day weather here in Bhubaneswar. 😅 I had some fun...
⛽ Zustand, On being indispensable and the jerrycan design
Hello there! This week I moved a buuunch of my React.useContext code over to Zustand! I was pretty impressed by Zustand last week and I especially loved that...
📬 Type syntax in JS, YAMO and a homecoming for this newsletter
Hello hello! I’ve been busy this past week finishing something that I’ve wanted to do for quite a while—you can now view this newsletter’s archive right on...
⌨️ New MDN, Browsers working together and a new keyboard! ...kind of
Hello there! I moved yet again last weekend and now I'm in the outskirts of my hometown: Bhubaneswar. I finally got a chance to settle down and unpack the...
🇺🇦 1x engineer, The 'high five' couple and Markdown
Hello there! The world is a not-so-fun™ place right now and I hope you and your loved ones are doing okay. It's unfathomable to me that any of this is...
✈️ State of JS '21, Next.js 12.1 and more!
Hello there! I'm in the middle of travelling, so this is gonna be a short one—but boy there have been exciting things this past week! 😄 📚 To read Next.js...
☕️ California, painting mugs and some more NYC
Hello hello! I travelled to California and Los Angeles last week to visit some relatives here. (Hence the delayed newsletter issue 😅) If you're interested,...
🍎 A new MDX, Lego and iPhone
Hello there! I witnessed a snow storm here in New York last week! (it's so cold that the snow is still here after 4 days 🤯) I've always been a winter-loving...
🗽 New York is pretty cool, who knew?
Hello there! It’s now been almost two weeks since I’ve been on my time-off, and I’ve seen so much of New York already! There’s so many things that have...
🗽 Doing touristy things in New York
Hello there! The secret’s out of the bag: After a bunch of luck with my US Visa, flights and US immigration, I’m in New York City visiting my girlfriend for...
"Don't criticize unless you can do better" — Dan Norman, The Design of Everyday Things
Hello there! Hope y’all had a great week. I flew into Delhi from Kolkata for the final part of my top-secret work™, and I’m hoping my luck continues on for a...
🥳 New Year, new Me, new You too!
Hello there, Happy New Year! I hope your return to work is going peachy. 🍑 I'm in Kolkata for some top-secret work and if everything goes well, I'll have...
⏳ Time to update your footer's copyright year
Hello there! Wow, we’re finally here. It’s the end of 2021. And yet, it feels like we’re still stuck in 2020. 🙄 (Do you also wonder what day in March it is?)...
⏲️ It's almost the end of the year
Hello there! It's almost the end of the year—wow, that was quick. 😅 Everything is cold and slow, and I hope you get to have a festive end to the year as...
React Conf, Tailwind and log4j — it's been quite a week!
Hello there! Last week, we had React Conf 2021 with a plethora of great talks! My favourite talks were React Developer Tooling and React without memo, but...
😇 Sandpack, finishing side projects for charity, and some news :)
Hello there! I I got promoted; I’m now a Senior Frontend Engineer!!! 😄🥳🎉 This means a lot to me. I genuinely enjoy working with everyone here at Remote and...
👶 Baby brother is all grown up!
Hello there! I’m back in my hometown and dropped off my lil’ baby brother! He’s all grown up now, and I definitely hugged him extra tight today. 😢 📚 To read...
🌄 I travelled though east Sikkim
Hello there! I travelled through east Sikkim last weekend—It's a truly serene landscape, and very, very cold. I shared some pictures too! I also got a...
👋 Hello from React India 2021
Hello there! React India finally happened last week—if we were on the same table in the lounge, hi again! Like any conference, the lounge/booth conversations...
📖 VSCode has (Jupyter) Notebooks now
Hello there! It's been an eventful week for me—I celebrated 3 years of dating my girlfriend! I (finally) became eligible for the Hacktoberfest rewards as...
✨ New releases everywhere!
Hello there! Doing my best impression of MKBHD So I’ve been living in the mountains for almost 10 days now, and I’m all settled in! With this move, I...
⛰ Life update: Hello from the Himalayan foothills!
Hello there! Life update: I moved to the foothills of the Himalayas! I've been posting photos and am still in awe of where I am. Living in a place as remote...
😌 Beautiful code blocks, at last
Hello there! I got to visit my mother's ancestral home in a little village today, had a ton of great food and met a bunch of relatives. I also made a ton of...
🎨 A new syntax highlighter for sreetamdas.com
Hello there! I’m writing out today’s newsletter slightly late: I got to visit the Jagannath Temple in Puri. We hadn’t been able to go for a couple of years...
🚗 I'm moving to the Himalayan foothills!
Hello there! I'm in the middle of moving, so long Vizag! 👋I'm at my ancestral home in Bhubaneswar at the moment and missing Bangalore weather a lot! Being...
🦸 Getting ready for Hacktoberfest, and I'd love your help!
Hello there! I got mdx-bundler working, yay! It's live now and you can take a look at the PR. I haven't had much success in benchmarking the results after...
🦤 Using mdx-bundler for sreetamdas.com
Hello there! I FINALLY HAD A BREAKTHROUGH THIS WEEK! 🎉 I’d been meaning to move away from the way that I was using my .mdx files for my website since it was...
😮 500 commits on my website repository
Hello there! Hope you had an amazing week! I finally merged my PR adding a "view counter" to different pages with Supabase and crossed 500 commits (over ~500...
💉 Fully vaccinated and working with Supabase
Hello there! I got my second dose of the vaccine. 😄 With the number of cases in India showing a slow rise again, I’m glad I can sleep just a lil’ bit easier...
⌨️ Beats and Keebs
Hello there! What a week it's been — I've spent the last couple days listening to Donda! I also saw quite a few people I know posting their mechanical...
💜 I'm back and well!
Hello there! I'm back from my bout with Dengue fever! I spent a couple of days at the hospital under observation to make sure that I went into the recovery...