🔑 "A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

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We made it to August! The Olympics have been fun to watch, and though the world has its ups and downs, we still can bond over watching really strong, hard-working people do their thing. Let's learn!

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Web links of the week

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How the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics has impacted Internet traffic

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Something that interested me this week

This week I was fairly bogged down with projects, interviews, calls, and other shenanigans, so it feels like I both got a lot done and not much done at all! That being said, a podcast episode I did a few weeks ago is out, on the Secret Sauce podcast! Check it out if you wanna learn about work, startups, open source... and memes, of course!

Also, in case you haven't played it yet, check out my daily word game Jumblie. It's been really fun seeing folks play it out in the wild, and I hope you enjoy it!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you convert between metric and imperial units. Awesome work Muhammad, Ashish, Alison, Ten, John, Kriszti, Amine, Nick, Ricardo, Tawseef, and Jasper!

This week's question:

Create a function that should take one argument n, which is a positive integer. The function should return the sum of all squared positive integers between 1 and n, inclusive.

Example:

> squares(5)
> 55
> squares(10)
> 385
> squares(25)
> 5525
> squares(100)
> 338350

(you can submit your answers by replying to this email with a link to your solution, or share on LinkedIn, Twitter, Mastodon, or Bluesky)

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Joke

I have a horse, his name is Mayo.

And Mayo neighs!

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and doodle in the margins of your notebook!


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