🚁 "Happiness can exist only in acceptance." - George Orwell

Hey friends!

I hope your week was a good one. Mine was alright. I lost my voice for a lot of it, which made my attempts at singing at my desk pretty rough. Anyway, onwards!

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Web links of the week

Simplify your full-stack applications with XState
Dev Chats - Jammin' with the Jamstack
Masonry? In CSS?!
24 Hour PowerPoint Game Dev Challenge

Something that interested me this week

This week I cut a new version of Better Security Questions (which you might remember I started a couple weeks ago), and I forgot to mention last week that I gave a little webinar about the Jamstack if you'd like to check it out! Also, we launched some more episodes of the Stack Overflow Podcast, which you can listen to anywhere.

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you make a part of the game Rummikub! This was a toughie, great job Amine, Ryan, Andy, Leyan, Stefan, Joep, Becker, Sal, Daniele, Les, and Ten!

This week's question:
Given a linked list, such that each node contains an additional random pointer which could point to any node in the list, or null, make a deep copy of the list and return the head node of the new copy. If you need to look up details about a deep copy, check here and here!

Node definition:

class Node {
    int val;
    Node next;
    Node random;

    public Node(int val) {
        this.val = val;
        this.next = null;
        this.random = null;
    }
}

Cool things from around the internet

Grid 650 board with GMK Pixel keycaps
A Visual Guide to the Aztec Pantheon
I should have loved biology
Pokémon, Pallet Town Cover - Sam Griffin

Joke

I signed up for Binary 101, but then I failed it miserably.
I had no idea it was a Level 5 course!

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and sing a song!

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

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