6️⃣ "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose." - Lyndon B. Johnson

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I’m so excited to be in your inbox today! It is this newsletter’s SIXTH year anniversary!! I’m so grateful for all of you here. Let’s keep it going (also there are free things and coupons below, keep scrolling)!

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Web links of the week

Building Complex Forms In Vue
CSS Masking
Impala: Very simple React and Preact static site generator
What will the Long-Lasting Impacts of Large Generative Models Be?

Something that interested me this week

Gosh, it’s hard to believe it’s been 6 years since starting this newsletter, and I am so grateful to you for being here and reading along with me each week!

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Also as a quick (mic drop?) side note: I’m super pregnant, and due this month! If you see some repeated interview questions or links over the next few weeks… that’s why. Woo hoo!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you roll some dice based on dice notation! There were some fun responses to this one! Great job Greg, Zoé, Robin, Miguel, Chase, Saad, Austin, Ciprian, Alvin, Dan, Christian, Chris, Daniel, Danny, Ángel, Muhammad, and Holger!

This week’s question (kind of a funky one for a fun day):
Write a program that prints the amount of characters its source has in English words. So a program that is 44 characters long would output “forty four” and a program that is 108 characters long would output “one hundred eight”.

Cool things from around the internet

The age of average
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How to use AI to do practical stuff: A new guide
Wildlife Crossings Key to Highway Safety in Banff

Joke

What did one tectonic plate say to the other when they bumped into each other?
“Oh oops, my fault!”

That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and thank you for being here!

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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