🎿 "Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations." - Dr. Mae Jemison

Hello friends!

I hope your week was a fun one. Mine was packed with podcasts, a couple events, and meetings. Onwards!

Web links of the week

How to Use Websockets With Your Vue Projects
Announcing Vite 2.0
Web Frameworks: Why You Don’t Always Need Them
Neat CSS

Something that interested me this week

This past week I was on the Contentful livestream! We live-coded up a birthday card with Next.js, Contentful, and Netlify. It was pretty fun, and you can check out the repo here!

Sponsor

This week’s sponsor is Mux!

If you’ve ever tried to do anything with video programmatically, you’ve seen the darkness. Acronyms that represent other acronyms, delivery best practices that change faster than JavaScript frameworks, and amazing tools… that come with decades of cruft and complexity. Video dominates Internet bandwidth and, for a lot of companies, engineering sprints.

Mux is the API to video that changes that. Instead of spending your time learning an entirely new vocabulary, you can just think about Video and how you want to use it. What Stripe did for payments and Twilio did for telephony, Mux does for video.

Take any video file or live stream and make it play beautifully at scale on any device, powered by magical-feeling features like automatic thumbnails, animated gifs, and data-driven encoding decisions. Spend your time building the experience and application that people want, not drudging through ffmpeg documentation.

Thanks Mux!!

Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you return possible sentences with a given string and dictionary. Awesome work Leyan, Ashleigh, Elliot, Luciano, Leslie, Brendon, Stefi, Steve, Christos, Alex, Chia, Ten, and Ivana!

This week’s question:
Given a string str containing only the characters x and y, change it into a string such that there are no matching adjacent characters. You’re allowed to delete zero or more characters in the string. Find the minimum number of required deletions.

Example:

$ everyOther('xxyxxy')
$ 2 // str becomes 'xyxy'

$ everyOther('yyyyy')
$ 4 // str becomes 'y'

Cool things from around the internet

When The Prison Banned Board Games, We Played Chess In Our Minds
Scotland names its snow plows and their titles for 2021 are still amazing
HEX 3.C with GMK Botanical
Inside the Cryptocurrency Casino

Joke

I went to a zoo and there was a baguette in a cage.
The keeper said it was bread in captivity!

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

Special thanks to Gabor, Stephen, Shell, IceSloth, Luna, and Emad for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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