🦔 "Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality." - Nikos Kazantzakis

Hey friends!

I hope your week was great! I got to see a bunch of family and friends for the short holiday week, which was lovely. Onwards!

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Web links of the week

Beyond Browsers: The Longterm Future of JavaScript Standards
Factory factory factory
Understanding SVG Paths
Ferris wheel (CSS only)

Something that interested me this week

I (finally) finished reading the second Mistborn book, The Well of Ascension, and dang, it was really good! I love it when books feel better than a TV show or movie. I kept wishing this one were an anime because the fight scenes were so well-written. I definitely recommend the trilogy!

I've been trying to build my reading habits more and more, especially so my baby can grow up seeing me read, rather than doom-scrolling on the internet. I've loved reading some old classic books to her that I liked as a kid (like Chicka Chicka Boom Boom) as well as new ones (like A is for Awesome), but most of all... I've LOVED reading her various coding and science books!

Sponsor

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you assess a reversed perfect square! Good job Mica, Miguel, Jonnie, Clifford, Saad, Muhammad, Dale, Laurynas, Umar, Ollie, Andrew, Connor, Leo, Gerardo, Sreetam, Ángel, Mazen, Jakob, Ten, Craig, Manuel, Rob, and Austin!

This week's question:
Given an array of strings and a max width, format the text such that each line has exactly maxWidth characters and is fully justified. You can choose how you want to wrap a word.

Example:

> justifyText(["This", "is", "an", "example", "of", "text", "justification."], 16)
> [
    "This    is    an",
    "example  of text",
    "justification.  "
  ]

Cool things from around the internet

J-01 with lubed Yellow Gateron Inks Typing Sounds
Loss Aversion Bias: Why Most People Fail Before They Even Try
Public Domain Review Collections
Fast

Joke

Why didn’t the orange win the race?
It ran out of juice.

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

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

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