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

Hey friends!

I hope your week was fun! We had the Chicago Air & Water Show this weekend, which was really fun to see. But it was also so hot outside. Anyway, time to learn!

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Web links of the week

JSX without React
Typograms
PHP doesn't suck (anymore)
Beginner's guide to lists and how to make them accessible

Something that interested me this week

This week I re-wrote my Obsidian theme, Cardstock! Many of you know that I use Obsidian as my note-taking software. I've been meaning to re-write my theme for it ever since they released the big 1.0 version (...in October last year) and I'm really happy with the final result.

You can check out the repo for Cardstock here, or if you use Obsidian and want to try it out, go ahead and look up "cardstock" in the Community Themes section.

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you work with a "faulty" keyboard. Y'all had such creative answers!! Some were short and concise, and some had a full-blown UI built with them. Amazing job Waleed, Saad, Jonnie, Nate, Fraol, Chin, Ten, Usman, Dale, Sreetam, Laurynas, Praveen, Chris, Austin, Christian, Lucien, Karthick, Snowie, Muhammad, Mica, Neil, Tawseef, Alvin, Manuel, Craig, Chase, Alison, Clifford, and Andrew!

This week's question:
Make a "guessing game" where there is a target number, and as the user makes guesses, the output returns higher or lower until the user is correct.

Example usage:

Guess the number!
> 10
higher
> 20
higher
> 30
lower
> 25
higher
> 27
Correct! You won in 5 guesses!

Cool things from around the internet

Saying Hello Linked to Higher Wellbeing, but With Limits
Open Source Pico Keyboard
Peptoc Hotline
Why Bumblebees Love Cats and Other Beautiful Relationships

Joke

How do the trees get on the internet?
They log on.

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

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

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