👞 "In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are." - Ovid

Hellllllo friends!

I hope you had a great week! Mine was full, but fun. Kind of like how you feel after a Taco Bell meal. Anyway, onwards!

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Web links of the week

Layout Breakouts with CSS Grid
The Story of Elixir
Building out a layered hero grid layout from Dribbble
Gamedev.js Survey 2023 Report

Something that interested me this week

I kind of "rediscovered" a game I made a while ago called Flapjack Fwop and it was really fun to play in between meetings this week! Try it out if you haven't yet!

In other news, we shipped a teams feature for my company's app, Brainstory, and I'd love to hear from you if you try it out! It's been a game-changer for us in reducing meeting time (more time for flapjacks) and sharing context quickly.

And finally, I'm speaking at TheJam.dev this week! It's free if you'd like to join in and check it out!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you flip a 2D array, and flip flip array, y'all did amazing! Great work Josh, Neil, Maciej, Kishore, Auzio, Varenya, Ashish, Ten, Sagnik, Tawseef, Leo, Jack, apmeyer, Muhammad, Mitchell, Saad, Nathael, Felix, Ryan, Alison, Miguel, Max, Amine, Carine, Austin, Angelo, and Chase!

This week's question:
Write a data structure for a simple binary tree, and a function that prints a given tree.

Example:

let root = new Node(1);
    root.left = new Node(2);
    root.right = new Node(3);
    root.left.left = new Node(4);
    root.left.right = new Node(5);

> printTree(root)
> "
    1
   / \
  2   3
 / \
4   5
"

(you can submit your answers by replying to this email with a link to your solution, or share on LinkedIn, Twitter, Mastodon, or Bluesky)

Cool things from around the internet

IO keyboard with GMK Dualshot2
Fighting Cancer With Quantum Computing
Sit in Shade
8 things you shouldn't reveal in a job interview

Joke

Why is Peter Pan always flying?
Because he neverlands!

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

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

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