Feb. 1, 2022, 5:11 p.m.

🍎 A new MDX, Lego and iPhone

Sreetam Das' newsletter

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 kid but NYC really has me questioning if I love winters as much. πŸ˜…

I also got myself a couple of shiny toys! I bought my first Lego set and an iPhone β€” I’m lovin’ it. And Remote got a facelift!


πŸ“š To read

  • How I Got Pwned by My Cloud Costs β€” Troy Hunt The creator of Have I Been Pwned talks about, well, getting pwned.

  • Releasing features with confidence in your mobile app β€” Razorpay Engineering Why go on the path of testing, and how to write good Component tests.

  • MDX 2 is out! Version 2 of MDX was released after years of hard work, and has many improvements: Improved syntax, esbuild and Rollup support, faster and smaller, and much more!

  • Roblox Return to Service 10/28-10/31 2021 Starting October 28th and fully resolving on October 31st, Roblox experienced a 73-hour outage. Fifty million players regularly use Roblox every day and this scale involves hundreds of internal online services. As with any large-scale service, we have service interruptions from time to time, but the extended length of this outage makes it particularly noteworthy.


πŸ‘€ Some more cool stuff

  • Life at Hashnode #10: New Year, and New Era for Hashnode
  • The Story of React β€” Tyler McGinnis
  • Emojis and cultural differences β€” Stefan Judis Why is the “Increasing Chart” emoji a chart that shows an upwards trending line, confusingly displayed in red?
  • Quirrel Joins Netlify and Scheduled Functions Launches in Beta

⌨️ Keyboards

Forever65 with IFK WoB Forever65 with IFK WoB

Zlant 40% with SA Black Selectric Zlant 40% with SA Black Selectric


That’s all for now, have a great week!

Stay kind πŸ’œ

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