Jan. 25, 2022, 3:39 p.m.

🗽 New York is pretty cool, who knew?

Sreetam Das' newsletter

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 surprised me here: the vehicles are so big, you can simply drink the water from the tap directly(?!?!!), and there are like 1787812 varieties of cereal. 😮

If you’ve got recommendations for places I should definitely check out or restaurants to eat at—let me know!


📚 To read

  • Creating the Notion API — The Notion blog “Turns out that designing a good API for a platform as flexible as Notion poses a surprisingly nuanced challenge! We’re sharing some key decisions from our process, in the hopes that our experiences provide insights for other developers while demonstrating what makes the Notion API unique.”

  • The Value of Values — Sarah Drasner “What it affords us is a deeper sense of where to start when building understanding and trust with a group of people. Unpacking what values a person aligns with most can help us understand what drives and motivates them. And the core of working together well is mutual understanding.”

  • Refreshing our Icon System: the why and how behind the changes — Spotify.Design

  • Remix vs Next.js — The Remix blog A deep dive and comprehensive answer to the question: How is Remix different from Next.js?


👀 Some more cool stuff

  • Highlights from Git 2.35
  • Recovering redacted information from pixelated videos
  • Twitter shakes up its security team Parag Agrawal, the new chief executive, fired the company’s head of security this week. Twitter’s chief information security officer is also leaving.
  • Why senior engineers get nothing done

⌨️ Keyboards

Trolololol50 with ePBT Grand Tour Trolololol50 with ePBT Grand Tour

TGR Alice with GMK KA1953 TGR Alice with GMK KA1953


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

Stay kind 💜

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