🍂 "No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world." - Robin Williams

Hello friends!

I hope you had a relatively good week. Watching what's happening out east has been so gut-wrenching to see. I know a few folks who read this might be affected: I hope you and yours are safe, and I'm so sorry this is happening. I hope this issue can be a little mental break for you.

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Web links of the week

An Interactive Intro to CRDTs
The Ultimate Low-Quality Image Placeholder Technique
Build a Stronger Product, Rooted in Mixed Methods
5 best practices for preventing chaos in Tailwind CSS

Something that interested me this week

I got into the show The Devil's Plan this week! It's really cool, it's a Korean game show that is specifically geared around people solving puzzles. It turns out a professional go player that I follow was one of the contestants, which was really fun to see!

What particularly excited me is that one of the puzzles was almost exactly like my game I made last week, Jumblie! Check it out if you haven't yet. So many of the puzzles on the show were so good, I hope they come out with versions you can play at home!

Sponsor

No sponsor this week, please play Jumblie and share it with your friends!

Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you convert a number in English words to an integer. This was hard!! Amazing job Usman, Tawseef, Akhilarka, Ten, Karthick, and Robin!

This week's question:
Given two strings s and t, determine if they are isomorphic. Two strings are isomorphic if there is a one-to-one mapping possible for every character of the first string to every character of the second string.

Example:

> isIsomorphic('abb', 'cdd')
> true // 'a' maps to 'c' and 'b' maps to 'd'

> isIsomorphic('cassidy', '1234567')
> false // 's' cannot have a mapping to both '3' and '4'

> isIsomorphic('cass', '1233')
> true

Cool things from around the internet

Ten weird things you can buy online (and why you would)
Popular Gaming Terms Explained
MidEvil Keyboard
It is never too late to start

Joke

Where do young cows eat lunch?
In the calf-eteria!

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

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

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