Sept. 14, 2021, 11 a.m.

😮 500 commits on my website repository

Sreetam Das' newsletter

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 days) on my website’s code repo.

I learnt a bunch of things along the way, so I tweeted a thread with some more details, learnings and thoughts — in my totally-unbiased-opinion, it’s a good read! There’s also a secret challenge at the end 🤫


📚 To read

  • Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS — Josh W. Comeau Josh continues to amaze with this one: shadows are often overlooked and aren’t as rich as they could be. The web is “covered in fuzzy grey boxes that don’t really look much like shadows”. If not for the expertise here, check it out for the absolutely amazing interactive elements.

  • The Show Must Go On: Securing Netflix Studios At Scale A journey to resolve the contradiction “streamline any security processes” and “raise the overall security bar” has been a collaboration that we’re proud of, and that we think exemplifies how Netflix approaches infrastructure product development and product security partnerships.

  • How to Quit Your Job (Even if You Just Started) “Knowing when to quit is just as important as knowing when to double down. So many people cling to situations that aren’t conducive to their growth and success because they are afraid to quit.”

  • How Product Hunt ships fast with a small, remote team


👀 Some more cool stuff

  • A bunch of quality-of-life improvements to Notion
  • Don’t let your memes be dreams! 😄
  • Apple must allow other forms of in-app purchase, rules judge in Epic v. Apple
  • The Hashnode Mobile App Has Finally Arrived 📱🚀
  • Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS

⌨️ Keyboards

Bear65 with GMK Taro Bear65 with GMK Taro

Prophet with KAT A rtic Prophet with KAT A rtic


That’s all for now, have a great week! If you’re in India and over the age of 18, please get vaccinated asap :)

Stay safe 🤞

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