🧤 "Nothing is permanent in this wicked world. Not even our troubles." - Charlie Chaplin

Hello friends!

I hope you had a great week. I officially start my new job at Netlify tomorrow, and I’m really excited (and nervous)! Anyway, let’s gooooo.

Web links of the week

A Static Future
Writing an Emulator in JavaScript (and Interfacing with Multiple UIs)
Performance during a Pandemic
Why I don’t use a Static Site Generator

Something that interested me this week

This past week I gave a webinar on building a global/shared state in React! It was a pretty fun time and I enjoyed interacting with the folks who tuned in. I’m hoping to do more of them when the new job starts, so stay tuned!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you implement function that generated well-formed parenthesis. Great work Sameer, Jake, Alex, Ten, Lenz, Samy, Sophie, Dimitris, Tigran, Martin, Vivek, Alexandre, Roman, Dutheil, Jakob, eliykat, and Collin!

This week’s question:
Given n points on a 2D plane, find the maximum number of points that lie on the same straight line.

Example:

$ maxPointsOnLine([[1,1],[3,2],[5,3],[4,1],[2,3],[1,4]])
$ 4

Cool things from around the internet

How does animation work?
Gamer builds a Nintendo Switch from scratch to battle price gougers
How expectations influence learning
DSA Astrolokeys on a VHS Norbaforce Mark II

Joke

3030 years from now, things will either be amazing, or terrible. I guess it’ll be 5050!

That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and clean up all those cables that you have sitting around. You know you won’t need them.

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

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