🧯 "If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody." - Damian Lillard

Hellooo!

I hope you had a great week! I was very productive and busy, and I’m hoping all the work from this past week will help my future self out this next week. Anyway, onwards!

Web links of the week

TypeScript 4.0 Released
Build A Confirmation Modal in React with State Machines
React 17’s Best New Feature: Gradual Upgrades
A CSS-only, animated, wrapping underline

Something that interested me this week

This past week, by a miracle (and randomly), I figured out my old Neopets account and was able to log in! I had a blast exploring what felt like a treasure trove of memories. It was also really cool to see how far we’ve come web development-wise. Neopets for many people, including me, was such a great place to learn and experiment on the internet with code and art. It made me happy to still see it running, even though it wasn’t the most state-of-the-art corner of the internet anymore.

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you move all the zeros in an array to the end of the list. We had a TON of responses in probably the most languages I’ve seen for one of the questions here! Great work Gabor, Arkady, Ten, Majo, Sophie, Nwosa, Gustavo, Rakshith, Kaveh, Pirijan, Chera, Sreetam, Maxim, Sameer, Ali, Amy, Rafael, Alan, Dom, Leslie, Stuart, Lucas, Collin, Gabriel, Zac, Jay, Jesse, Brenley, Hyeseong, Thomas, Jagadish, Matthew, Ivana, Anna, Kyle, Angel, and Roman!

This week’s question:
Given a string s and a character c, return the number of occurrences of c in s.

Example:

$ numChars('oh heavens', 'h')
$ 2

Cool things from around the internet

CandyBar with DSA Astrolokeys
How This Guy Folds and Flies World Record Paper Airplanes
NASA Research Reveals the True Causes of Sea Level Rise Since 1900

Joke

What do you call a chicken at the north pole?
Lost

That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and sit up straight!

Special thanks to Gabor, Stephen, and Louis for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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