🥙 "All you can do is try to live your best life from day to day and move forward with gratitude." - Brian Clark

Hello hello!

I hope you had a good week! Mine was packed, and I’m particularly excited for this next one because I’m going to meet some of my coworkers for the first time this week.

Web links of the week

Exploring the CSS Paint API: Blob Animation
Web Scraping with JavaScript and Node.js
An Interactive Guide to Keyframe Animations
ol vs. ul vs. div

Something that interested me this week

I went to the Van Gogh Immersive Exhibit this past week! It was beautiful. Getting to see his paintings in such a cool way, while also listening to the very emotional, curated music was really something to see. I found the Spotify playlist for the experience if you’d like to check it out.

In technical news, I was on Fauna Live this past week to start a new project from scratch with Next.js and Fauna, and also talked about the React 18 Working Group at React Contributor Days!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you get the product of two strings. Great job Gabor, Jesper, Deepak, Dominic, Ten, Leyan, Lenz, Ann, Vanessa, Rafael, David, Faisal, Les, Ben, Faisal, Glenn, and Dhaval!

This week’s question:
Given n pairs of parentheses, write a function to generate all combinations of well-formed parentheses.

Example:

$ formParens(1)
$ ["()"]

$ formParens(3)
$ ["((()))","(()())","(())()","()(())","()()()"]

Cool things from around the internet

GMK Red Samurai buffed and polished
The MoSCoW method of prioritization
Bricks are Smart, but Architects Won’t Listen.
A sentiment analysis of BTS songs

Joke

What do you call a bear with no teeth?
A gummy bear!

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

Special thanks to Gabor, Stephen, IceSloth, Emad, Alaska, Josh, Conor, Ezell, Pedro, Karthic, and Ximena for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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