🤩 "Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful." - Thích Nhất Hạnh

Hello friends!

I hope you had a good week! Mind was full of speaking and… playing video games. Onwards!

Web links of the week

Temp API
Deep Dive into Rust for Node.js Developers
React API evolution
Gute

Something that interested me this week

This week, I spoke at Headless Commerce Summit (about caching and Pokémon, naturally), and at React Finland (about Next.js)! Both were fun events, and we had a lot of good conversations afterwards.

Outside of these talks… I played a bunch of Civilization! I won a Diplomatic Victory for the first time. It was very exciting. I kind of felt some guilt about not being productive after work, but having that extra time to myself to just play and relax the brain a bit was so great!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you make a Connect Four game! There were some really fun entries this time around, awesome job Ashwin, Ten, Tobias, Jesper, Dani, Leyan, Les, Face the Wolf, Ricardo, and Jay!

This week’s question:
Given a list, return a list of all its prefixes in ascending order of their length. You’re essentially implementing the inits function in Haskell!

Example:

$ inits([4, 3, 2, 1])
$ [[], [4], [4,3], [4,3,2], [4,3,2,1]]

$ inits([144])
$ [[], [144]]

Cool things from around the internet

“Cultivating an Art of Noticing” in the Age of Scrolling
Things your manager might not know
A New Surf Culture
Custom Resin keyboard with SA Chocolatier

Joke

You know what the best thing about boolean variables is? Even if you’re wrong, you’re only off by a bit!

That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and compliment someone when you see them doing well!

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

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