⌨️ Beats and Keebs

Hello there!

What a week it's been — I've spent the last couple days listening to Donda! I also saw quite a few people I know posting their mechanical keyboards — Oh man, I couldn't be happier seeing so many people getting into this not-so-niche-anymore lil' hobby that I used to think I was alone in! 😄

I finally got to play around with React Query like I'd been meaning to — I added my website's repo's stars and forks' count to the footer using the GitHub API. Next up: using Supabase to add page view counts (and other stats in the future hopefully! 🤞)

📚 To read

• Why are hyperlinks blue? — dist://ed, the Mozilla blog The internet has ingrained itself into every aspect of our lives, but there’s one aspect of the digital world that we take for granted. A deep dive through technology history and interfaces to explore how links were handled before color monitors, and how interfaces and hyperlinks rapidly evolved once color became an option.

• How WhatsApp enables multi-device capability Rethinking WhatsApp’s architecture and design new systems to enable a standalone multi-device experience while preserving privacy and end-to-end encryption and managing to sync your data across devices.

• How I Made $80,000 On Side Projects In 2020 — Emma Bostian Emma provides a brief overview of how much she made on each type of side project, and a few tips for implementing them yourself!

• The perfect link — A11Y collective How do we write, design, and code a link that works for everyone on every device?

• Your Image Is Probably Not Decorative — Smashing Magazine Image placement on the modern web is highly intentional, helping to communicate the overall purpose of a page or view. This means that nearly every image you declare needs to have an alternate description.

👀 Some more cool stuff

• Towards a Reliable Device Management Platform — Netflix
• Spotify every day since they signed Joe Rogan — Gus Johnson
• Fig raises $2.2M to supercharge the terminal
• Twenty photographs of the week — The Guardian

⌨️ Keyboards

Polycarbonate Oceanographer with GMK Paperwork

Sangeo60 with KAT Eternal

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 🤞