Oct. 3, 2021, 10:06 p.m.
⛲ "Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." - Carol Burnett
rendezvous with cassidoo
Hey friends!
Can you believe it's October already? I can't. So spooky. Onwards!
Web links of the week
How To Build Your Own Mouseless Development Environment
ct.css – Let’s take a look inside your <head>
Creating the Perfect Commit in Git
What's new in React 18?
Something that interested me this week
This was an exciting week of launches!
First of all, this next week is Jamstack Conf, and our promo video went live, and I LOVE it so much. It turned out great, and this week I'm going to the in-person MC spot where we'll be set up with costumes and some pretty fun jokes (by the way it's free if you'd like to join us)!
Secondly, we finally launched The Key this week! You might have seen it before when we made it as an April Fools' Day prank, and now it's a reality. We sold out of the initial batch in the first few hours, but you can still nab one (or three) for the next batch! It's been really fun seeing the press about this one (I listed some of the articles in this post), too!
And lastly, I published a guide for getting your first job in tech for GitHub's README project! You might recognize some of the advice from my longer guide on GitHub. I thought it'd be good to make some of the content a bit more concise, and I'm happy with how it turned out!
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Interview question of the week
Last week, I had you evaluate a string expression with parenthesis! It was a toughie, incredible work Griffin, Jesper, Ten, Andy, Leo, and Rachel!
This week's question:
Given an integer array, find all distinct combinations of a given length x (with repetition allowed).
Example:
$ distinctCombos([1,1,2], 2)
$ [1, 1], [1, 2], [2, 2]
$ distinctCombos([1,2,3,4], 2)
$ [1, 1], [1, 2], [1, 3], [1, 4], [2, 2], [2, 3], [2, 4], [3, 3], [3, 4], [4, 4]
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Cool things from around the internet
'Float,' a film shot on iPhone
Board gaming in Figma
GMMK Pro with Tealios
Random Sandwich Suggestions
Joke
What do you call a fish made out of two sodium atoms?
2Na!
That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and compliment your friends!
Special thanks to Gabor, Stephen, IceSloth, Emad, Alaska, Josh, Conor, Ezell, Pedro, Karthic, and Ximena for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!
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