🧈 "Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it." - Julia Child

Hey friends!

I hope you had a wonderful week. Mine was busy, in a good way, and I can’t believe we’re already nearing the last part of August. Soak in the summer while you can, and in the meantime, let’s gooooo!

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Web links of the week

Michelle Barker | Creative CSS Layout
outline is your friend
Avoiding useEffect with callback refs
Why (and How) I Write Code With Pencil and Paper

Something that interested me this week

This week was a fun one! I was able to release a few things I’m really excited about, including a joke, and I finished reading the first Mistborn book! It was really awesome, I highly recommend it if you’re into fantasy adventure books.

So first of all, a podcast series that I’ve been working on for a while is officially announced! It’s called the Dev Morning Show (at night) and it’s all about profiling cool people in the tech industry, while making jokes in the process, of course. Here’s the trailer. You can subscribe to it on the YouTube channel (linked with the trailer) or wherever you listen to your podcasts!

Also, this article that I wrote about taking notes was just published, if you’d like to learn more about taking notes on a team and some strategies around it.

And, as always, you can check out the Stack Overflow podcast where we publish episodes… all the time!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you find the longest valid parenthesis string. There were some fun languages used by y’all! Great job Akhil, Lily, Cedric, Muhammad, Robin, Saad, Hazel, Ten, Miguel, Leyan, Chuan (this one still blows my mind), Les, Zoé, Ofoe, Lucien, Vyaas, Amine, and Constant!

This week’s question:
Given a string that represents a markdown table, return a formatted markdown table. A formatted markdown table means that the width of each column is the width of the longest cell in the column.

Example:

Input:
| Syntax | Description |
| --- | ----------- |
| Header | Title |
| Paragraph | Text |

Output:
| Syntax    | Description |
| --------- | ----------- |
| Header    | Title       |
| Paragraph | Text        |

Cool things from around the internet

Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers
An Interview with Frieder Nake
LZ Erghost - Corsa with GMK Burgundy
From a Million Miles Away, NASA Camera Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth

Joke

How did the zucchini do in the competition with the pumpkin?
It squashed them!

That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and make your friends a playlist!

Special thanks to Gabor, Stephen, IceSloth, Alaska, Josh, Conor, Ezell, Karthic, Ximena, Paige, Zev, Sebastián, Ben, Sema, Kinetic Labs, and Vadim for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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