It paid off — all the hard work, stress and challenges. Toasting to myself tonight (and all the other incredible reporters at Knox News). What a year 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

A recent journalism win- a story of mine helped get donations for a middle school girls soccer team. Journalism can feel difficult often, but every once in a while such instances happen and remind you why you do it 🫶🏻

We recently revamped the search experience on the smallcase mobile app and as part of that I got to craft this beautiful search bar UI. So I wrote a blog post on how we did it!

I'm far more ready to hire a so-called "dehati" who is eager to learn and upskill themselves than a brilliant asshole. Even if the slower growth person doesn't work out, they will just be a problem for themselves. The brilliant asshole has the capability to be a problem for the

quick alias to selectively upgrade brew packages gist: gist.github.com/sreetamdas/cb5…

Long day of reporting on the flooding in East Tennessee in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Thread🧵 First up! Need-to-know information on roads, utilities, schools and missing people, by counties. knoxnews.com/story/weather/…

And, before I get off the soapbox, consider my plea (with very valid reasons^) to subscribe to your local news outlet. In times of crisis (and peace!), local journalism matters!

Personal news! As of yesterday, I've joined The Hindu's data journalism team as its first ever Editorial Coder. My job will be to help visualize our data projects with interactives for our digital readers. (1/3)

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Heat stress isn't just about temperature and humidity, it's also affected by the work you do. Some people — on the daily — are exposed to 60°C+ temperatures in Chennai! Latest from Vignesh Radhakrishnan, Srinivasan Ramani, nitika francis, VM and I. thehindu.com/infographics/2…

Resource alert 🚨 We’ve built a new interactive for the deleted voters in #Bihar. Explore constituency-wise deletions from the voter rolls - broken down by reason, age group, and gender. There is an interactive map view as well. Best viewed on a desktop! thehindu.com/infographics/2…

gist: gist.github.com/sreetamdas/5c6…

gist: gist.github.com/sreetamdas/5c6… Pretty nice with Enum.chunk_every, just needed to pad the edges :)

Redesigned my website with better CSS decisions✌🏼 areenaarora.com

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Parsing Bihar: How The Hindu’s Data Team cracked the SIR puzzle The Hindu Data Team’s editorial coder Areena Arora explains the vibe coding, regular coding, python and sql usage and many other intricate details in our Bihar SIR coverage. thehindu.com/newsletter/new…