♣️ "If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities." - Maya Angelou

Hello friends!

I hope you had a good week. Mine was busy and full of moose facts. Let's boogie.

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Web links of the week

Vite 3.0 is out!
CSS3Maker: Free CSS Generator Tool
rety: Live coding without the stress
It’s 1997 and you want to build a website

Something that interested me this week

I got really into moose this week. As in, not the Perl library, but the animal itself. I started watching the TV show Alone and there was a swimming moose in it, and I went deep into moose facts. Every meeting and podcast I had this week included moose facts. If you hear a podcast episode in the future that I'm on and there's a moose involved, it was probably recorded this week. Anyway, I wrote a blog summarizing my findings. MOOSE CAN DIVE, PEOPLE.

Also! It wasn't all moose! My talk from All Day Hey on functional programming in JavaScript is out, and a blog post I wrote about functional programming for beginners came out this week, as well!

Sponsor

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you make a deep copy of a Linked List. It's not easy doing these data structures, but it's good to know! Great job Miguel, Sophie, Amine, Zoé, Ten, Rafael, Nicole, Ryan, and Hristiyan!

This week's question:
Given a string that has a valid email address, write a function to hide the first part of the email (before the @ sign), minus the first and last character. For extra credit, add a flag to hide the second part after the @ sign to your function excluding the first character and the domain extension.

Examples:

> hideEmail('example@example.com')
> 'e*****e@example.com'

> hideEmail('example+test@example.co.uk', hideFull)
> 'e**********t@e******.co.uk'

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Joke

A photon is going through airport security. The TSA agent asks if it has any luggage.
The photon says, "No, I'm traveling light."

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and don't get too frustrated when things don't work the first time!

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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