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Hey friends!

I hope your week was great! I enjoyed having a shorter work week with Memorial Day rolling in, and did a bunch of house work as well. Anyway, let's surf!

Web links of the week

jsonmatic – transform a CSV into a JSON
How to Memoize with React.useMemo()
Making JavaScript run fast on WebAssembly
RTL:WTF - Read the web like Right-to-Left readers do

Something that interested me this week

I had a pretty busy week! I wrote up a blog post on shallow routing in Next.js, officially joined the Stack Overflow podcast as a semi-regular host, livestreamed with CockroachDB, and prepped for MCing Front-End Test Fest this next week (it's free, you should join)! It was a lot to squeeze in to a shorter work week, but really fun. Plus I got back into watching some K-Dramas, which is always a good time.

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you implement the Haskell inits function! Awesome work Sophie, Dhanush, Leyan, Vanessa, Vishwa, Les, Ashleigh, Maaz, Neeraj, Jean-François, Jesper, Face the Wolf, Sreetam, Emmanuel, Lakshay, Lucie, Rafael, Ricardo, Dominic, Kushagra, Thomas, Ivana, Ashwin, Shriram, Mark, Kofi, Ten, and Shreya!

This week's question:
Given three numbers, return their product. But, if one of the numbers is the same as another, it does not count: If two numbers are similar, return the lonely number. If all numbers are same, return 1.

Example:

$ lonelyNumber(1,2,3)
$ 6

$ lonelyNumber(6,6,4)
$ 4

$ lonelyNumber(7,7,7)
$ 1

Cool things from around the internet

Mary Jane Richards, Black spy in the Confederate White House
Eunoia: Words That Don't Translate
Garbage Truck keyboard
NPR's Favorite Books of 2020

Joke

Why did grape prices go up?
There was a raisin demand.

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

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