😅 Not the Best Weekend

Hello there!

I got dengue over the weekend, and all I can say is: F**k mosquitoes! My weekend was a cycle of medicines and bed rest.

I feel better now, but I took the week off from work to make sure I recovered fully (yay unlimited leaves!). 🤞

📚 To read

• Writing great alt text: Emotion matters Good alt text means that screen reader users get the same 'meaning' from the page as a fully sighted user. But sometimes that's easier said than done.

• 10 lessons I've learned as a Software Engineer at Postman

• A future for SQL on the web An incredibly detailed and well written post about creating a persistent backend for SQLite on the web, the absurdities of the web’s storage APIs (mainly IndexedDB), and how SQLite provides a 10x perf improvement.

• How We Design Our APIs at Slack

👀 Some more cool stuff

• This incredibly cool audio-reactive WebGL scene
• GitHub’s Engineering Team has moved to Codespaces
• Securing your GitHub account with two-factor authentication

⌨️ Keyboards

Alopow with EPBT Kuro Shiro

Bahm Evelyn with CRP Hebrew Green

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 🤞