🐥 "Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action." - Benjamin Disraeli

Hey friends!

I hope you had a great week! I celebrated Easter with family today and loved it, and now I’m wrapping up a lot of work as my maternity leave (!) starts soon! Anyway, let’s gooo!

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Web links of the week

It’s about time CAPTCHAS become accessible
In Praise of Vite
TypeScripting the technical interview
The 9 Principles of the Perfect Startup Engineering Stack

Something that interested me this week

Three things for you:

1. If you filled out last week’s raffle, winners will be picked this week and you’ll get an email!
2. I wrote about my fave productivity apps, and also launched a fun mini product called Confbrew at work this week!
3. There are some awesome developers on the job market. Reach out to these folks if you or someone you know is hiring!

With a career spanning 18 years and counting, Daryn continues to craft user experiences for an array of sectors (from video games 🎮 to beer 🍻), while wielding an array of technologies. With a heavy focus on frontend and a background rooted in design and illustration, he creates deliverables in JS/TS, Vue, Node, React, Next/Nuxt, Figma, WordPress (including headless), and Craft CMS. Ready to hire him? daryn.codes

Greetings! My name is Yesenia, I am a Full Stack Developer with a focus on .NET Core (C#), MS SQL, React.js, Node.js, Angular, and MongoDB. I am currently leading a custom development project designed to help businesses relationships with their employees. I am hoping to align my experience in back-end development with my desire to learn in my next role. If this is the sort of person and experience you are looking for, you can reach out to me through LinkedIn and view my portfolio.

I’m Aodhan, a part-time digital assistant and web dev freelancer, looking for part-time or full-time opportunities. My strengths are in JavaScript/TypeScript and I recently started learning Python. I created my own app to help myself with my administration work, have contracted on a few OSS projects and have recently started a OSS project with some developers from New Zealand. My GitHub, LinkedIn, and Twitter!

Hiya, my name is Conor! I’m a lead full-stack developer with 10+ years of experience who spent all of it in the Non-Profit and Healthcare IT space. I absolutely love programming, from designing system architecture to diving deep into frameworks and problem-solving with others. JavaScript web frameworks are my jam, along with Node.js. Feel free to send me a message on LinkedIn!

Jhoni Pereira is a software developer with 12 years of experience in web development looking for his next role. Currently, he helps organizations from various industries shape their technology visions, focusing on React, and Next.js. Feel free to check out Jhoni’s portfolio to learn more about his work! If you have any questions or are interested in this sort of experience, contact him through Linkedin.

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you print out the length of a program in English words. Some of y’all made this very simple, and some engineered something much more hardcore, and I loved all of the interpretations of it! Great job Miguel, Nate, Ángel, Jonnie, Saad, Ten, Leyan, Zoé, Will, Andrew, Carine, Alvin, Prashant, Austin, Muhammad, and Christian!

This week’s question:
Write a function where given integer n, it returns the angles at each point of a star with n points. Hint: The sum of the angles at each point of a 5 pointed star is 180 degrees, and at a 6 pointed is 360 degrees.

Cool things from around the internet

Primitive Technology: Making Charcoal (3 Different Methods)
The Creative Squiggle
ZoomTKL with GMK Parcel
If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed

Joke

What was Beethovens favorite fruit?
Banananaaaa!

That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and take a walk!

Special thanks to Gabor, IceSloth, Alaska, Josh, Conor, Ezell, Karthic, Ximena, Paige, Zev, Sebastián, Ben, Sema, Kinetic Labs, Vadim, Bailey, Carmina, and Faisal for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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