Saptarshi

Front-end engineer, food eater/cooker and YouTuber

[shoaib daniyal @ShoaibDaniyal]

Remember the curious case of slow counting in Bengal on May 4?

"Wherever the fight was tough for us, counting took place slowly," a BJP worker told Scroll. 

By mid-afternoon, this meant the BJP had a strong lead in Bengal even though only a fraction of votes had been counted.

@AnantGuptaAG investigated how this affected a TMC stronghold in Kolkata: Rajarhat New Town.

Once a saffron win seemed imminent in the state, TMC counting agents were forced out from the counting centre, both TMC and CPI(M) told Scroll. 

Till then, the TMC was leading with a significant margin. However, *once the TMC agents left*, the data shows that the BJP closed the lead rapidly.

The next day, in a special, extra counting round, with no TMC agents present, the BJP was declared the winner.

READ: https://t.co/3CWv9RuGFO

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

So we digitised 352,287 voter records across two Kolkata constituencies -- Bhabanipur & Ballygunge -- spending $141. Muslims are 39.5% of the combined electorate in these two seats. They are 66.5% of those placed under adjudication, our analysis shows.

[Cheng Lou @_chenglou]

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):

I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept):
Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

[Amitav Ghosh @GhoshAmitav]

"The racialized civilizational lens that once justified colonial domination continues to shape contemporary judgments about sovereignty, legitimacy, and the permissible use of force."

https://t.co/kt0H1XwY0n

[Saptarshi @hatfullofrain]

.@webflow

[Jose Urbano | Design Partner @joseurbano1]

Should I refresh or not 😭

[Saptarshi @hatfullofrain]

.@webflow designer is practically unusable now. Saves are taking many, many attempts and refreshes to go through. The Status page is green. What is going on? This is becoming an everyday thing now.

[Adil Hossain @adilhossain]

Given that everyone is a Bengali linguist & philologist now, I am starting a thread on Bengali music of all kinds. Police in certain states should listen to them to know the diversity that exist in Bengali language before harassing migrants (you can add)

https://t.co/1sNRm3KcB4

[Saptarshi @hatfullofrain]

“বাংলাদেশ”, অপরাজিত

[Saptarshi @hatfullofrain]

Dolan done v. good job

[Saptarshi @hatfullofrain]

@vaniIlaessence “যায় যদি যাক প্রাণ
হীরকের রাজা ভগবান”

[Saptarshi @hatfullofrain]

🥰

[Siddharth @DearthOfSid]

Look, Shahrukh is doing his ‘silent rebellion’ again.

[Saptarshi @hatfullofrain]

How does @brave afford all these ads? I see one every time I open Twitter. Is this the best use of their money? As a Brave user it worries me.

[George Mack @george__mack]

The most underrated video on the internet:

A man tries to make a chicken sandwich from scratch: It costs $1500 and takes him 6 months.

There's never been a better time to be alive.

[Saptarshi @hatfullofrain]

Exactly, also, who needs web browsers when you have curl. What kind of losers need a dom parser to parse html anyway. It’s just markup you suckers. Read it!

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

what is Postman's moat? it's just a wrapper around curl

[Saptarshi @hatfullofrain]

For a paid product @Meetup is very unstable. 500 internal errors pop up 5 out of ten times you are trying to navigate to sign in pages. The group pages have been down for more than an hour, but no communication from their team.

[Ottawa Java User Group @realOttawaJUG]

2 days before the first Ottawa JUG event in 5 years, our Meetup page https://t.co/uXZms4qRN1 is down:

{"statusCode":500,"error":"Internal Server Error","message":"An internal server error occurred"}

@Meetup Any chance you can take a look at this?

[Saptarshi @hatfullofrain]

“In the clearing stands a boxer
And a fighter by his trade
And he carries the reminders
Of every glove that laid him down
Or cut him till he cried out
In his anger and his shame
"I am leaving, I am leaving"
But the fighter still remains”

[Saptarshi @hatfullofrain]

@vinayaravind @RBI @FinMinIndia That is what we had to do for Webflow. Asked a friend who stays in Canada to buy a yearly subscription. Can’t imagine how they expect anyone to conduct business like this.

[Bong Eats @bongeats]

Did you know Collin Lane used to be called “chikan para”? Fascinating story of Bengalis in Harlem, New York at the turn of the 20th century by @upalasen
👉🏾 https://t.co/P1HZLSl7dN

[Saptarshi @hatfullofrain]

“আমারই তো মাইন্ড। চেঞ্জ করতে বাধাটা কোথায়?”

[Saptarshi @hatfullofrain]

"ধন কি বাত"