📟 "All creative people want to do the unexpected." - Hedy Lamarr

Hey friends!

I hope you had a good week! Mine was very full of family and friends, which was wonderful. Onwards!

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Web links of the week

A Gentle Introduction to CRDTs
Long Alt
So, you want to make a game engine
Upgrading jQuery: Working Towards a Healthy Web

Something that interested me this week

I gave birth one whole year ago!! My baby is one!! Ahh!! I am incredibly emotional today about it. She's a beautiful, funny little girl and I can't believe we made it to the one year mark.

For her first birthday, one of the activities was to have her pick a starter Pokémon. Everyone out there, be warned, she picked Charmander!

Anyway, it's really hard to believe all of these highs and lows happened in such extremes over the past year. I've learned a ton and have been extremely humbled, and I am grateful for you reading this through it all!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you find specific substrings. There were some tricky answers! Great job Gu, Jeroen, Amine, John, The Math Jester, Mazen, Saad, Nathael, Ryan, Kyle, Ten, and Pozorvlak!

This week's question:
Given a direction and a number, write a function that outputs an arrow of asterisks with the height of that number! See the pattern below.

Example:

$ printArrow('right', 3)
*
 *
  *
 *
*

$ printArrow('left', 5)
    *
   *
  *
 *
*
 *
  *
   *
    *

$ printArrow('up', 2)
  *
 * *

(you can submit your answers by replying to this email with a link to your solution, or share on LinkedIn, Twitter, Mastodon, or Bluesky)

Cool things from around the internet

Math puzzles
How to share your point of view (even if you’re afraid of being wrong)
How to Juggle Priorities: Decide Which Balls Are Glass and Which Are Plastic
Aloe Arc60 with DKM Jade

Joke

How many bones are in the human hand?
A handful of them!

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and dance today, even just by yourself!

Special thanks to IceSloth, Ezell, Sebastián, Ben, and Kinetic Labs for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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