🌱 "The beginning is the most important part of the work." - Plato

HAPPY NEW YEEEARRRRR!

I hope you all had a good end to your 2024 and start to your 2025! I've been doing allll the cleaning and also trying to squeeze in some reading here and there. Let's boogie.

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Web links of the week

GIFs Are Forever, Let’s Make Them Better! (video)
You don't need Next.js
Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite
The beautiful sentence that is the web

Something that interested me this week

This week was full of wrapping things up and starting things fresh for the new year!

I wrote up my annual end-of-year recap, redid some small parts of my website, took down our Christmas tree, and ate a whole lot of leftovers. It was really good to have this period of time to recharge and get ready for the new year full of work (and not-work)!

Sponsor

No sponsor this week, happy new year!! Consider supporting one of these awesome organizations!

• The Teacher Fund
• Sugar Labs
• Hack Club

Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you get the day of the week for New Year's Day of a given year. Some of you kinda cheated with the JavaScript Date object but I'll give you a pass, ha! Awesome work Mike, Miguel, Ross, Chris, Muhammad, Damien, Charles, Alix, Kyle, Tim, Amine, Nathan, Neha, Ten (who has been writing answers for 5 YEARS STRAIGHT now!), Ashish, Danny, Andrew, Mazen, Vincent, John, Jeremias, Alison, Kriszti, and Ricardo (who added a neat twist)!

This week's question:
Write a function that generates all possible permutations of a given string. Careful, the results could get long!

Example:

> permute('abc')
> ['abc', 'acb', 'bac', 'bca', 'cab', 'cba']

(you can submit your answers by replying to this email with a link to your solution, or share on Bluesky, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Mastodon)

Cool things from around the internet

How to break free from your “toxic productivity” cycle
What Happened to the World's Largest Tube TV? (video)
What does the world lose when a language dies?
Baionlenja Synovia keyboard with GMK Rainy Day

Joke

Why are people from Norway so good at editing files in Linux?
Their ancestors are vi-kings!

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and good luck going back to work!

Special thanks to IceSloth, Ezell, Sebastián, Ben, Kinetic Labs, Faisal, and Marta for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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