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Greetings amigos!

I hope you had a great Thanksgiving, if you celebrate it! Phew, I don’t know about you, but for me, this long weekend was a much-needed break! It’s wild to me that we’re already into the work week. C’est la vie!

Web links of the week

Playfulness In Code: Supercharge Your Learning By Having Fun
List.js
Rethinking the JavaScript Pipeline Operator
Beginner’s Guide to Static Site Generators
Babylon.js 4.2: Simplicity Reimagined

Something that interested me this week

One thing that I discovered this past week and have been enjoying is Raindrop, a bookmark manager! I know bookmark managers aren’t exactly a novel concept, but I haven’t used them much before and gave this one a shot.
So far, it’s been really great, especially for writing this newsletter! I’ve been able to curate links and resources in one spot (while tagging and sorting them), and it legitimately took about 20-30 minutes off of the usual time it takes me to write a typical issue. Who would’ve thought that being organized actually improves productivity? ;)

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you return true if an integer is a perfect square. Great job Alexandra, Ivana, Sam, Lakshay, Dimitris, Sreetam, Roman, Mert, Jonathan, Amy, Leyan, Prakash, Rafael, Jay, Jesús, Ma, Angel, Jonah, Selcuk, John, Leslie, William, Ilya, Ten, and Pozorvlak!

This week’s question:
Given an array of integers and a target value, return the number of pairs of array elements that have a difference equal to a target value.

Examples:

$ arrayDiff([1, 2, 3, 4], 1)
$ 3 // 2 - 1 = 1, 3 - 2 = 1, and 4 - 3 = 1

Cool things from around the internet

History of Online Games
A Survival Guide to Medieval Fairy Tales
First Follower: Leadership Lessons from a Dancing Guy
Pokémon Artisan Keycaps

Joke

Why is E the nicest letter?
Because all the others are naughty.

That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and don’t waste time worrying about things you can’t control.

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

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