Dec. 10, 2018, 6 p.m.

๐ŸŽ€ "Experience is the hardest kind of teacher; it gives the test first and the lesson afterward." - Oscar Wilde

rendezvous with cassidoo

Hi there!

Welcome back, I hope you had a great week! I had a birthday this past week and had a blast celebrating with family and friends. Let's go surfing.
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Web links of the week

Modern JavaScript Explained For Dinosaurs
Toast UI Editor
CSS Text Shadows
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Something that interested me this week

Like I mentioned before, I had a birthday this past week! I got to see a bunch of friends and family, which was great. One of the most fun activities was indoor skydiving! It was terrifying. I screamed the entire time. I lost my voice. Worth it! One of the jumps we did was in virtual reality, where you had a VR headset on and watched a real skydiver fly while you were in the wind tunnel. I also screamed constantly during that one, while also feeling like I was skydiving in the future.

Also, last week at CodePen we released a new UI feature, the sidebar! It looks like a very simple change, but under the hood, there were a LOT of changes. We added in some juicy things like React, GraphQL, Cypress, and mooore, which were both challenging and fun to write.
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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you write some CSS! Here's my solution.

This week's question:
Given a string str, print reverse all words except the first and last words.

Example:
reverseMid('I want some cake')
> I tnaw emos cake
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Cool things from around the internet

Ares + GMK Pristine
The Time German and Russian WWI Soldiers Banded Together to Fight Wolves
9 Weird and Wild Steven Spielberg Movies That Never Got Made
Googleโ€™s DeepMind now showing human-like characteristics
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Joke

I once fell for a guy who only knew 4 vowels.
Unfortunately he didn't know I existed.
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That's all for now folks! Hope you have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and stay focused!

If you'd like to support what I'm doing, here's my Venmo and my PayPal. Or, if you would like to support an organization, check out cKeys!

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