🛴 "People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." - Dale Carnegie

Hello friends!

I hope you had a lovely week! Today was my birthday and even though it was mostly spent indoors (thanks, pandemic), I had a good day of watching shows and catching up on some reading. Onwards!

Web links of the week

CLI Guidelines
The React Hooks Announcement In Retrospect: 2 Years Later
Automatic Social Share Images
jsonformatter
Building Your Color Palette

Something that interested me this week

This week, I decided to try Blogvent, where I blog every day! I know it's pretty popular to do something like Advent of Code or devAdvent, and I thought it'd be fun to do my own little twist to get blogging again.

Here are the posts I've done so far!

• Using React Context for State Management
• Next.js: Should I use SSR or SSG?
• What is React Fast Refresh?
• "Escaping" Next.js to access the browser
• Building a custom React media query hook for more responsive apps
• Why you should code together: Mob Programming FAQs

If you prefer reading posts on dev.to, I cross-posted them there, as well!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you return the number of pairs of array elements that have a difference equal to a target value. Great work Laura, Elliot, Jayphen, Mike, Jonathan, Ephraim, Adam, Rafael, Romain, Leyan, Lakshay, Chera, Sreetam, Prakash, voknelis, Aldrin, Ivana, Roupen, Remo, William, Chera, Kikwei, Jesús, Atharva, Rizwan, John, Ilya, Roman, Mickael, Vishwa, Namrata, Pozorvlak, and Ten!

This week's question:
Given two non-negative integers n1 and n2 represented as strings, return the product of n1 and n2, also represented as a string. Neither input will start with 0, and don't just convert it to an integer and do the math that way.

Examples:

$ stringMultiply("123", "456")
$ "56088"

Cool things from around the internet

Text Faces
A visual guide to banknotes around the world
A Brief History of How We Got Here and Why
S65 with GMK Camping

Joke

I love my furniture!
My recliner and me go way back.

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and fix your posture (I see you, do it)!

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

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