📘 "If you are interested in what you do, that keeps you going." - Stan Lee

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I can't believe we're already at the end of January! This week felt like it both flew by and was the longest week ever, I don't know about you. Let's go!

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Web links of the week

Why developers should embrace creative coding again
Creating an Angled Slider
Develop, build and distribute your HTML5 Phaser games with Vite
Avoiding anys with Linting and TypeScript

Something that interested me this week

This week was a long week of being busy at work and kind of avoiding the chaos of news as much as possible here in the United States. I finished reading Yumi and the Nightmare Painter (it was excellent!!) and The Dip (it was short and decent, and honestly probably could have been shorter), started reading Babel, and spent good quality time with my toddler (we started swim lessons! So cute!). I am kind of falling behind on blogging these days and hope to get back into the swing of things sooner rather than later, so this is me saying it: I will write something this week!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you find subsequences with certain constraints. Good work Ten, Muhammad, David, Ricardo, Amine, Stephen, Kyle, Ashish, Mac, Jawara, Tim, Neha, Shreya, Mazen, and Alison!

This week's question:
Given two strings, s and p, return an array of all the start indices of p's anagrams in s.

Examples:

findAnagrams("cbaebabacd", "abc")
> [0, 6]

findAnagrams("fish", "cake")
> []

findAnagrams("abab", "ab")
> [0, 1, 2]

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Cool things from around the internet

Inside Inventor Simone Giertz’s Small Los Angeles Home (video)
The Protesters' Guide to Smartphone Security
Basque language origins
Game Boy Keyboard (video)

Joke

How do you get a farm girl to like you?
A tractor!

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

Special thanks to IceSloth, Ezell, Sebastián, Ben, Kinetic Labs, Faisal, and Marta for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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