🎷 "The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fastest one." - Matshona Dhliwayo

Hey friends,

I’m so grateful to be in your inbox today! I absolutely loved seeing the replies last week from folks donating to support the organizations working in Ukraine and Texas. Thank you for being great. Onwards!

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Web links of the week

Misconceptions about databases in the Jamstack
Hooks: React’s do-notation
Are My Third Parties Green?
Minimum Static Site Setup with Sass

Something that interested me this week

I hope you’ve been able to find some peace in between the rough news over the past week. I filled the time with mostly just work, and I joined in on this livestream, and this video I made with the Prismic team last year came out!

I also started watching the show Veronica Mars. I know I’m about 18 years too late, but it’s been fun seeing the old fashion, the pre-Facebook technology, and seeing so many (now big) celebrities in small roles throughout.

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you return the largest rectangle in a 2D array. Awesome job Will, Leyan, Rafael, Les, Giovanni, Ryan, and Ten, this was a tough one!

This week’s question:
Implement a hashmap from scratch without any existing libraries in your preferred language.

A hashmap should:

• Be empty when initialized
• Have the function put(int key, int value) which inserts a (key, value) pair into the hashmap. If the key already exists, update the corresponding value.
• Have the function get(int key) which returns the value to which the specified key is mapped, or -1 if there’s no mapping for the key.
• Have the function remove(key) which removes the key and its value if it exists in the map.

Cool things from around the internet

Slices
The Surprising Benefits of Talking to Strangers
The Monolith Keyboard
Top-Ranked and Award-Winning Games by Women and Non-Binary Designers

Joke

I noticed that when I was in the office, people would always laugh at my jokes, but working from home, people never do. When I asked why, they said my jokes weren’t remotely funny.

That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and say something kind to someone today!

Special thanks to Gabor, Stephen, IceSloth, Emad, Alaska, Josh, Conor, Ezell, Pedro, Karthic, Ximena, Paige, Zev, Sebastián, and Ben for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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