🚗 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 home and having a change of scenery is sweet though. I'll be moving again in a couple weeks to Kalimpong, and I'm sooo looking forward to that. 😄

Thanks to everyone who checked out my repo, I created a bunch of issues on my repo. Compared to last year, this year's Hacktoberfest seems to be a much better experience for maintainers. 🤞

📚 To read

• Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet — The Cloudflare Blog For hours, Facebook and all of its services: Instagram, WhatsApp, heck even Workplace and InternalFB were down at 1700 UTC, 4th October. How is that even possible?

• Introducing the new kentcdodds.com — Kent C. Dodds Kent has been talking about his website rewrite for the better half of 2021 now, and to see it live finally is a sight to behold — and for bonus points, he even goes quite in depth into How [he] built a modern website in 2021 — 32 min (!!) read

• Setting Up & Preparing For Interviews — Taylor Poindexter "Figuring out which companies you’d like to interview with is the first step. Now we must begin to prepare for our interviews 😈" — Taylor who recently joined Spotify as an Engineering Manager

• Get your first software developer job — Cassidy Williams, The GitHub README project A succinct version of Cassidy's original guide to getting a gig, this is great advice for anybody wanting a developer position.

• How we made bracket pair colorization 10,000x faster — VSCode A real world use-case where Data structures and Algorithms turned out to be super useful, solving a crucial pain point for literally millions of developers (and stressing their work machines just a bit less)

👀 Some more cool stuff

• Why flow matters more than passion — Sarah Drasner
• The Tragedy of Safari 15 for Mac’s ‘Tabs’
• Using the platform — How far can framework-free, zero-build codebases take you in 2021?

⌨️ Keyboards

Prophet with GMK Perestroika

Matrix Lab 2.0Add with GMK Dracula

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 🤞