👒 "It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious." - Oscar Wilde

Hey friends!

I hope you had a good week! I apologize for being a little late on this issue. I fell asleep writing it last night after binge-watching the last of Avatar: The Last Airbender. It was such a fun show, I hadn't watched it straight through before! Anyway, let's goooo!

Web links of the week

50 Developer tools to make your life a little easier
mailgo
3D Book Image CSS Generator
Thread on accepting and translating feedback

Something that interested me this week

This past week was a busy one, we moved to a new apartment! Moving in a pandemic is weird. The folks on my livestream last week got to witness my new desk setup, which is still temporary, but we'll get there!

Sponsor

This week's sponsor is Flossbank!

I personally started trying out Flossbank after their launch a couple weeks ago and so far I've been liking it. It's an opt-in tool for supporting open source by adding an advertisement in your terminal while you npm install.

Features:

• It's seamless - Your dev workflow doesn't have to change at all to use it.
• It's an opt-in wrapper around your package manager, so you don't have to worry about it being injected into your installation scripts.
• Support open source for free. Only see tech content ads in the terminal during installation of open source packages. Check out how it looks here!
• Don't like ads? Add in your own funds to your account to be distributed to the projects you care about.
• No more maintaining donations to various maintainers, just give back to the projects you use with zero maintenance on your part.
• Signup and installation is easy peasy, all you need is your email and then you run a CLI command to install.

Follow Flossbank on Twitter and sign up here!

Thanks Flossbank for sponsoring and supporting open source!

Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you return valid IPv4 addresses based on a string. Nice work Wade, Sophie, Stuart, James, Alberto, Melody, and Ten!

This week's question:
Sort an array of strings based on the number of distinct characters that occur in the word (followed by the length of the word).

Example:

$ charNumSort(["Bananas", "do", "not", "grow", "in", "Mississippi"])
$ do in not Mississippi Bananas grow

Cool things from around the internet

The Impact of Toxic Influencers on Communities
Learn to solve the 2x2x2 Rubik's Cube
Why Is America Stuck with Bad Headlights?

Joke

How much does first parameter of a shell script cost?
$1

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

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

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