🦸 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 removing MDXJS completely, but it definitely feels like the right decision. MDXJS seems to have come back to life with a v2 though — I'm gonna wait and see how that turns out. 👀
It's almost October, so it's almost time for Hacktoberfest! This year will be the 5th year (consecutively!) that I'm a part of it — and I'd like your help!.
I'll create beginner-medium level issues for Hacktoberfest that participants can pick and raise PRs for, and I'd love if you check out sreetamdas.com and the code repository, and create an issue for something that you think can be improved. I'll approve relevant issues with the requisite label and you can then start working on it! 😄
If you've got any doubts (this isn't a very polished idea, I know 😅) — don't hesitate to reach out by replying to this email or asking me on Twitter or Discord :)
📚 To read
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Rome will be written in Rust 🦀 Rome started off written in JavaScript, but will now be rewritten for a number of reasons, including performance, memory, and safety benefits. Also, shout out to Sidhartha Chatterjee's course Rust for JS Developers!
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Uber's Crazy YOLO App Rewrite, From the Front Seat — Gergely Orosz "I've worked on many projects throughout my career as a software engineer. However, Helix - Uber's Rider app rewrite in 2016 introducing Swift and RIBs - stands as the craziest project by a margin. This is my story and some of my journal entries from the time."
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Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale 10+ years ago, most of GitHub's data was in a single MySQL database — they have grown since then. 😅 Here’s how they scaled their relational databases.
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#1 Checkpoint: Of Debugging & Deadlines — Rajat Gupta reflecting on mistakes & learnings from the first 3 months of his first job.
👀 Some more cool stuff
- Create beautiful SVG backgrounds for your UI designs
- Goldman Sachs, Ozy Media and a $40 Million Conference Call Gone Wrong
- A hamster has been trading cryptocurrencies in a cage rigged to automatically buy and sell tokens since June - and it's currently outperforming the S&P 500
- Easily creating and routing email addresses with Cloudflare Email Routing This is actually so cool, I'm excited to give it a try!
⌨️ Keyboards
TGR x Monokei Tomo with OG Cherry Dyesubs and GMK Missing Keys
PolyCarb Key65 with GMK Copper
That's all for now, have a great week! If you're in India and over the age of 18, please get vaccinated asap :)