Helllllooooo!

Happy 4th of July to the Americans out there, and happy "start of July" to everyone else! I hope you had a great week. I'm really glad to have a shorter one with the holiday, myself. Internet time!

Web links of the week

Browsers decode images differently
Code Generator for HTTP Requests
XO: JavaScript/TypeScript linter (ESLint wrapper) with great defaults
Saving data to Supabase and getting it back again

Something that interested me this week

This past week was a super busy one! I was promoted on Monday, went to a couple meetups on Tuesday, gave a talk at Prisma Day on Wednesday, published a blog post on CSS-Tricks on Thursday, and also played a bunch with GitHub Copilot on my livestream! As you can imagine, the long weekend was a very welcome break.

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you draw a Pride flag! I loved seeing the creativity of everyone's responses in so many different languages. Amazing work Ritik, Sreetam, Jai, Ricardo, Maxime, Rahmat, Jesper, Dani, David, Augustin, Jay, Rafael, Claude, Zoe, Ten, Aodhan, Ben, Leyan, Weilbyte, and Vanessa!

This week's question:
Imagine your users are all typing slightly incorrectly, in that they shifted their hands one key to the right. Write a function that translates what they mean to say.

Example:

$ translateShift(';p; epe')
"lol wow"

$ translateShift('vtsmnrttu')
"cranberry"

Cool things from around the internet

Av3x Boulder: Summit Keyboard
Breath Of The Wild Is The Best Designed Open World Ever Made, And The Rain Is Partly Why
Grace Hopper: Legends and Lies
How To Make Hexagon Light Panels

Joke

Who figured out 7 ate 9?
4 'n' 6!

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and watch out for fireworks!

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

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