📀 "Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying." - Nikki Giovanni

Hey friends!

What a week, what a week. Mine was full of podcast recordings, code, and meetings. Let’s goooo!

Web links of the week

Building a desktop application using Electron and Create React App
Star Rating: An SVG Solution
wavesurfer.js
LÖVR: An open source framework for rapidly building 3D experiences

Something that interested me this week

This week I caught up on a bunch of projects (some that I’ll be announcing in the next week or two), published a blog post with an Introduction to Jamstack, released a Q&A with Women Who Code Buenos Aires, and bought an ottoman for my living room. Overall, pretty productive week!

Also, in case you’ve missed them before, I’ve been streaming every Thursday and it’s been super fun answering folks’ questions about getting jobs, startups, code, and… memes. Come join in if you’d like!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you return the longest palindromic substring in a given string. Great work Deepak, David, Craig, Mark, Ten, Alex, Ann, Les, Jesper, Leyan, Gabor, Will, and Claude!

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Cool things from around the internet

Biography: Mary Edwards Walker
If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel
Divorced Birds
30 minutes of typing sounds

Joke

I have a fear of overly intricate buildings.
I have a complex complex complex.

That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and get your todo list done!

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

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