🪖 "The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hey friends!

I hope your had a good week! Mine flew by, and I had a great time. I'll tell ya more about it below! Let's gooo.

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Web links of the week

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The History of Themeable User Interfaces
React Won by Default - And It's Killing Frontend Innovation
BlueSky Likes Components

Something that interested me this week

This week I saw Lea Salonga in concert! She was spectacular.

She sang not only her well-known hits (like "Reflection" from Mulan, "On My Own" from Les Misérables, and "A Whole New World" from Aladdin), but also a bunch of other songs from various movies and Broadway shows.

Her tour is called, "Stage, Screen & Everything In Between" and it is perfectly that. She did Disney medleys (I practically levitated when she transitioned between "Colors of the Wind" to "Let it Go"), and songs made famous by movies like "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic, and "A Million Dreams" from The Greatest Showman.

I love musicals (on stage and off), so this felt like the perfect show for lil ol me, and I just loved it!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you analyze baseball scores! Home run Gavin, Ender, György, Juliano, Rafael, Paul, Ten, Taylor, David, Elke, and Stephen!

This week's question:
Write a function that determines if a number is abundant, deficient, perfect, or amicable. (Thanks Raymond for this one!)

Examples:

whatKindOfNumber(6)
> 'perfect'

whatKindOfNumber(12)
> 'abundant'

whatKindOfNumber(4)
> 'deficient'

(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

Their schools banned phones. Out came the iPods and cassette players.
Teaching Lettering to Third Graders
I made a mechanical laptop (video)
I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens

Joke

Why did the chicken become a chef?

Because it has im-peck-able taste!

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

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

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