🛋 "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin

Helllooo!

I hope you had a good week! Mine was fun; it was full of talks and experimenting with code. To the fathers and father-figures out there, I hope you had a wonderful Father’s Day, and for our Black friends reading, I hope you had a great Juneteenth! Let’s boogie.

Web links of the week

Select Star SQL
An Introduction to Shaders
How To Use The Vite Build Tool with React
Benchmarking JavaScript Memory Usage
MathJax 3.2.0: Beautiful Math Rendering in All Browsers

Something that interested me this week

This week was full of building things and talking a lot! I recorded some talks for upcoming conferences, and hung out on The Practical Dev Walkthrough Wednesday livestream (which was a very fun time). I also made a TikTok about spam callers and… deployment logs.

At work, we had what we call “Netlivation Day” where we build something fun and out of the ordinary! I made a “link in bio” site generator that I’m pretty proud of. I still have to clean it up (and publish the blog post on how it works), but it was a good time building it.

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you make some arrows out of asterisks based on user input! Great work Gabor, Griffin, Nathan, Refi.64, Face the Wolf, Dani, Rafael, Melo, Patrick, Binh, David, ValeYellow46, Leyan, Dhanush, Jesper, Neeraj, Dimitris, Tamás, Claude, Taylor, Daniel, Andrew, Mike, Achraf, Ashleigh, Mark, Tianon, Sreetam, Kushagra, Vitor, Augustin, Shreya, Jay, Bashu, Craig, Les, Alex, and Ten!

This week’s question is a variation of last week’s:
Write a function that draws an ASCII art cube of given height x.

Example:

$ drawCube(2)
  +----+
 /    /|
+----+ |
|    | +
|    |/
+----+

$ drawCube(4)

   +--------+
  /        /|
 /        / |
+--------+  |
|        |  |
|        |  +
|        | /
|        |/
+--------+

Cool things from around the internet

GreyStudio Space 65 with MT3 Serika
Can the Maori Connection to Antarctica Help Safeguard the Continent’s Future?
The Document Culture of Amazon
Cybereason: 80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again

Joke

What do you call a completely white bee?
An albeeno!

That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and don’t strain your eyes too much at your computer!

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

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