💼 "Real change - enduring change - happens one step at a time." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Hey friends!

I hope you had a good week! Mine was busy; I spoke at a few events and on a couple of podcasts. Let’s get moving, shall we?

Web links of the week

Vue 3 release
Rewriting Facebook’s “Recoil” React library from scratch in 100 lines
Building Chat App in Flutter with Firebase
How to Create a Sprite Animation Without Canvas
Why is Next.js my ultimate choice over Gatsby, Gridsome, and Nuxt?

Something that interested me this week

This is my last newsletter I’m sending from Seattle! As of this next week, I’ll be moving across the country to Chicago! It’s been incredibly hectic (and bittersweet) getting packed up, but I’m super excited for this next chapter. We’ll be driving across and seeing some national parks along the way.

In other news, I spoke at a meetup this past week demoing HarperDB, React, and Netlify! Here’s the repo if you’d like to see the project!

Sponsor

This week’s sponsor is Jamstack Conf!

At this event, they will showcase the capabilities of the Jamstack architecture—way beyond static sites—to powering dynamic applications, personalization at the edge, and more.

Jamstack Conf Virtual conference sessions will be FREE on October 6th, thanks to their sponsors. Workshops on October 7th are $100, and availability is limited.

Jamstack Conf looks forward to bringing together thousands of global Jamstack community members for this virtual event!

I personally will be speaking a couple times at this event, so definitely come on by!

Thanks Jamstack Conf!

Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you find “fibonacci-like” sequences! It was a tricky one, amazing work Benjamin, Rizwan, Pozorvlak, Gabor, Tim, Ali, Ten, Tim, Sibi, William, Anthony, Jay, and Mike!

This week’s question:
Given an array of integers representing asteroids in a row, for each asteroid, the absolute value represents its size, and the sign represents its direction (positive = right, negative = left). Return the state of the asteroids after all collisions (assuming they are moving at the same speed). If two asteroids meet, the smaller one will explode. When they are the same size, they both explode. Asteroids moving in the same direction will never meet.

Example:

$ asteroids([5, 8, -5])
$ [5, 8] // The 8 and -5 collide, 8 wins. The 5 and 8 never collide.

$ asteroids([10, -10])
$ [] // The 10 and -10 collide and they both explode.

Cool things from around the internet

Candybar with DSA Astrolokeys
Mobile App Stores and Crypto
To All the Jobs I Had Before
DIY Handmade Paper

Joke

How do mountains see? They peak!

That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and start bringing out the clothes for cooler weather!

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

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