🖍 "All great achievements require time." - Maya Angelou

Hey friends!

I hope you're doing well. The world has been ever-chaotic lately, but we've got to try to not worry about the things we can't control, and be with the folks we love as much as we can! Anyway, onwards!

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Web links of the week

ReactToPrint
Sharing State with Islands Architecture
Misconceptions can kill accessibility momentum
How to use jQuery with Astro

Something that interested me this week

This week I did two big launches that I'm really excited about!

Jumblie
Jumblie is a word search game that I made with plain ol' HTML, CSS, and JavaScript! I kind of "hackathoned" it this week, working on it starting Monday and slowly but surely making it better through Friday. I'm really happy with it! I've been wanting to make a puzzle game with a sharing system like Wordle for a while, but wasn't sure what it would be. I'll be sure to write a more proper build log for it! That being said...

BrainStory
...the thing that helped me come up with Jumblie was the next launch, BrainStory! BrainStory is an app we built at my company, Contenda, that helps you talk out your thoughts. Think of it as rubber duck debugging as a service! I've used BrainStory to plan out app ideas, blog posts, and how I'll build things, and some friends have used it for their D&D campaigns (and even for job interview prep)! It's free to start!

Sponsor

No sponsor this week, please play Jumblie and share it with your friends!

(or, you know, with the New York Times Games team, heh)

Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you add operators to make an expression, and it was a tough one! Awesome job Ten, Miguel, Neil, Henri, Christian, Frances, and Karthick!

This week's question:
Convert a number in English words to an integer. You can assume the number will never go beyond the millions, and there will be no punctuation.

Example:

> parseNumber("Twelve Thousand Three Hundred Forty Five")
> 12345

> parseNumber("One Hundred Twenty Three")
> 123

Cool things from around the internet

Pythagoras: Everyone knows his famous theorem, but not who discovered it 1000 years before him
The Garden of the Five Senses
Why your $7 latte is $7
Tofu65 with KFA Autumn Leaves keycaps

Joke

My friend said to me, "what rhymes with orange" and I said, "no it doesn't!"

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and wave back to the babies waving at you!

Special thanks to Gabor, IceSloth, Ezell, Ximena, Sebastián, Ben, Sema, Kinetic Labs, Kara, and Carmina for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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