Hello friends!
Ah! The end of the year is upon us! Merry Christmas Eve, by the way. I hope you're with people you care about this week, and if not, I hope you get to be soon. Onwards!
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Web links of the week
Writing A Multiplayer Text Adventure Engine In Node.js
Vue Native
Keep Math in the CSS
Handling broken images with the service worker
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Something that interested me this week
This past week, I 3D printed
a dice tower that I modeled from scratch! A long while back (as in, November of last year) I wrote in this letter that I wanted to learn 3D modeling, and I finally made something with the skill, at last! I used
Tinkercad for the modeling (I had learned Autodesk softwares before but didn't have them on my computer), and was pleasantly surprised at the flexible online interface. I can't wait to print more!
I probably won't be sending a letter next weekend as I'll be with family and friends for the new year, but I wanted to say thank you SO much for reading this every week (or just whenever you get to it, I know y'all are busy). It makes me so happy to see replies and interactions from you, and knowing that I might make your day just a little bit better keeps me writing this. I'm so grateful for you! Thank you, thank you, thank you. :)
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Interview question of the week
Last week, I had you swap binary digits to make the longest string of 1s possible. Nathan did an awesome
Twitter thread walkthrough of his solution! Mark also wrote a
nice solution!
This week's question:
Given two numbers a and b, determine if a^b or b^a is greater, and return which is greater. Twist: You can't use Math.pow (or whatever exponent function that's built-in to your language of choice).
Example:
greaterPow(3, 5)
> a^b is greater
greaterPow(2, 4)
> Both are equal
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Cool things from around the internet
LSJ Ares with GMK Pristine
Casting a $20 Million Mirror for the World’s Largest Telescope
My Grandmother's Chicago
Why is Christmas Day on the 25th December?
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Joke
"This is just nonsense!" I yelled, as I returned the perfume that didn't smell like anything.
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That's all for now, folks! I hope you have a very Merry Christmas, New Year, Festivus, and whatever else you might celebrate. I'm so grateful for you. Be safe, make good choices, and close out 2018 with something you'll be proud of.
cassidoo
