🥑 "Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." - Anne Lamott

Hey friends!

Happy Thanksgiving week to the Americans in here, and no matter where you’re from, I’m grateful for you! When the news is rough and the world is frustrating, it’s important to remember to be thankful for the good parts.

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Web links of the week

React 18 is now in beta
Some notes on using esbuild
A Guide To Modern CSS Colors With RGB, HSL, HWB, LAB And LCH
AMP Has Irreparably Damaged Publishers’ Trust in Google-led Initiatives

Something that interested me this week

This week I was on a much needed vacation, and had a great time!

First of all, I read a couple books. I particularly enjoyed Think Again by Adam Grant, which had some great insights about rethinking concepts and relearning over time.

While I was out, some fun things were released/announced!

• My GitHub ReadME Project article came out
• A new Stack Overflow podcast episode
• A fun conversation on the Sourcegraph podcast
• Netlify raised a Series D, acquired OneGraph, and started the Jamstack Innovation Fund to invest millions in open source and Jamstack startups
• memes

Phew, I guess I should go on vacation more often!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you write some regex to search for tokens in files! Some of y’all wrote some wild code (pun), awesome work Zoe, Les, Will, and Ten!

This week’s question:
Given an array of strings, group the anagrams together in separate arrays. An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once.

Example:

$ groupAnagrams(["eat","tea","ten","poop","net","ate"])
$ [["poop"],["net","ten"],["eat","tea","ate"]]

Cool things from around the internet

Scan of the Month: LEGO Minifigures
Bauer 2 with GMK WoB + CMYK Mods
The Ovarian Lottery - A Thought Experiment from Warren Buffett
GameCube at 20: Nintendo insiders on the failed console that changed the industry

Joke

Why do ducks make great detectives?
They always quack the case.

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

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

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