⚽️ "Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are." - Chinese Proverb

Hellllooo!

I hope y’all are doing well! You might have gotten two emails from me last week, sorry about that. I was out of the country, and my timezone confusion made me send it twice! Anyway, let’s boogie.

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Web links of the week

unjs: Unified JavaScript Tools
Optimizing A Vue App
Tree views in CSS
How we lost our slick new npm package name (and then got it back)

Something that interested me this week

I was in South Korea this past week visiting family! It was a very busy trip full of eating and walking and eating and talking and eating. Though the jet lag is definitely hitting me now, it was really nice to be able to completely step away from my laptop for a bit and enjoy the country.

I admit, one of my favorite things that I got to check out was Baduk TV! Some of you may know that I looove playing the game go (called baduk in Korea), they have an entire TV channel there dedicated to it there. I was able to catch a game each evening before sleeping, and watch how the pros play. If you play the game, this one and this one were my favorite games I watched while there! You don’t need to understand Korean to see how they unfold, and I was totally on the edge of my seat towards the end of each game.

Also, if you ever want to try out playing go, online-go.com is where I play regularly, and it has some good how-to-play guides and puzzles to get you started!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you make a connected line of slashes. There were some really creative answers!! Great job Will, Gabor, Allen, Saad, Matt, Miguel, Leyan, Binh, Fraol, Krem, Robin, Andy, Daniel, Ten, Abdelrahmen, Muhammad, Raymond, Thomas, Max, Amine, and Zoé!

This week’s question:
Given an 8x8 chess board, a piece, and a move coordinate, determine if the given move is a valid chess move. Capital letters represent white pieces, lowercase letters represent black pieces, where P is a white pawn, n is a black knight, K is a white king, and so on. A ~ represents a blank square, and you can use this tool if you need a helpful visual! You can choose to do absolute coordinates or relative ones, and decide how you want to differentiate between duplicate pieces.

Example:

let board =
    [`~~~~~~~~
      ~~kb~~~~
      ~~K~~~~~
      ~~~~~~~~
      ~~~~~~~~
      ~~~~~~~~
      ~~~~~~~~
      ~~~R~~~~`]

> isValidMove(board, 'R', [0,0])
> false // A rook can only move horizontally and vertically

> isValidMove(board, 'k', [0,1])
> true // A king can move one square at a time in any direction

> isValidMove(board, 'Q', [5,7])
> false // The queen is not on the board

Cool things from around the internet

SA Espresso on Keychron K12
Why you procrastinate even when it feels bad
Why writing by hand is still the best way to retain information
Ancient Japanese lumber production method without cutting down trees called “Daisugi”

Joke

I love the way the earth rotates. It really makes my day!

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

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

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