This newsletter is my experiment to save all the cool things I find during the week and share them with my like-minded friends.
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COOL LINKS
Scunthorpe Sans A self-censoring font. It’s a cool use of ligatures feature. The censoring is not perfect as it only works for a dozen or so words but it’s a cool concept. Speaking of ligatures, check this coding font. My favorite ligature font is this!
Some Interesting Desi Newsletters I started Memon Mondays not to gain audience but to form a habit. As a lazy person who gets bored of stuff pretty quickly, developing some discipline helps. I can maybe morph this into writing more later.
Many friends have also started their own newsletters, please check them out and subscribe if any interest you:
and lastly Techshaw Notes by Zahid Lilani covering Pakistan’s startup ecosystem. This one is actually what inspired me to start mine.
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DEV
Rebuilding our tech stack for the new Facebook.com FB recently rewrote their aging web front-end. They rebuilt the whole thing in React, took the component based approach even for CSS, and even lazy-loading modules only when needed. A good look at how one of the most complex websites is developed.
Lite – A small, fast text editor In the world of JavaScript/Electron based editors Lite is a very small and very fast text editor. It’s a reminder of how fast our computers actually are and it’s just our inefficient coding methods that make everything slow.
Although inefficient; but easy development methods (like JavaScript), are still awesome as I think they reduce the barrier to entry and has created more developers. But that’s a discussion for another day.
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MEMES
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That’s it friends! Be safe, stay home, and wash your hands. Also inbox me if you got something cool to share!
I would have never known I inspired you to start this newsletter if I hadn't checked stats on Substack. Thank you for the shout out. And thanks for sharing that FB screenshot, I had no idea they did a facelift on their website. Was there no outrage? How did I miss this!
Woohoo! Thanks for the mention! I hope you like mine as much i like yours ( thats what she said).
My newsletter is about life giving you lemons, and you making a lemon acid battery 😂
I would have never known I inspired you to start this newsletter if I hadn't checked stats on Substack. Thank you for the shout out. And thanks for sharing that FB screenshot, I had no idea they did a facelift on their website. Was there no outrage? How did I miss this!