🎁 "Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax." - Mark Black

Hellllloooo friends!

Another week, complete! This was a good one for me to round out the end of 2020 at work. I hope your holiday week is merry and bright. Until then, onwards!

Web links of the week

CommonMark: A Formal Specification For Markdown
Styling console.log() Output Formatting With CSS
What Can You Put in a CSS Variable?
What's Old is New (oh wow who wrote this)

Something that interested me this week

This past week I was on React Podcast! It was fun chatting with Michael and his community about the episode and career tips.

I've still been keeping up with Blogvent (blogging everyday)! It was fun to get a little shout in CSS-Tricks about it! Here's the posts I've done since the last issue:

• Add Web Monetization to your sites with Snippet Injection
• How to turn off telemetry in Next.js
• Query an API at both build time and runtime with Next.js
• React Children: The misunderstood prop
• Adding Babel presets and plugins in Next.js
• Enabling AMP in your Next.js projects
• An Incredibly Serious Discussion about Next.js at Reactathon

I'd appreciate any and all love on dev.to for these as well!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you remove a folder from a list in a filesystem. This was a little tricky, nice work Sarah, Vanessa, Dhanush, Achraf, Mike, Adam, Ephraim, Ten, Vishwa, David, Paul, Leyan, Andrew, Ilya, Enri, William, Ivana, and Clov!

This week's question:
You are building stories into an app. Your inputs are an object with the structure { username, postedAt }, and a date in the future. Each story lives for 24 hours. Write a function that outputs the stories that are visible for the inputted time.

Cool things from around the internet

The Girl Detective Disappears: On Searching for Nancy Drew, and Finding Myself
An Ode to Going for a Walk, the Definitive 2020 Activity
EO-87 Crystal with GMK 8008
Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed

Joke

What do you call a Christmas wreath made out of $100 bills?
Aretha Franklins!

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and have a wonderful week of holidays!

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

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