🐜 "The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness." - Michel de Montaigne

Hey friends!

I hope your week was sweet! At work we had our annual All Hands event, and so I had meetings allllll day long, allllll week long. It was tiring, but also great getting to know my coworkers more. Let's gooo!

Web links of the week

Re-Creating the Porky Pig Animation from Looney Tunes in CSS
Tutorial - Create generative social images using SVG
RunJS: A Playground for JavaScript and TypeScript
Are your Anchor Links Accessible?

Something that interested me this week

This past week I made my own URL shortener on my livestream! It was pretty fun and MUCH easier than expected. I implemented it with Netlify redirects. With that, it truly is just adding some to/from URLs in a _redirects file and... it's done! I also added an npm script from Kent C. Dodds to add formatting and make the process a little quicker.

So, you can go to cass.run/gh to go to my GitHub, cass.run/pat to go to my Patreon, or hey, you can go to cass.run/shortener to see the shortener repo and clone it yourself!

Sponsor

This week's sponsor is Flatfile!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you rotate an n x n array 90 degrees. You know, theoretically y'all who did this could turn your algorithms into a little Tetris game... tempting, huh? Anyway, awesome work Dhanush, Vishwa, Leyan, Luciano, Ale, Gustavo, Leslie, Elliot, Timotius, Taylor, Jonathan, Pozorvlak, Alberto, Kyle, Rafael, Jose, Ivana, Griffin, Ten, and Carlos!

This week's question:
You are given a snapshot of a queue of stocks that have changing prices coming in from a stream. Remove the outdated stocks from the queue.

Example:

$ snapshot = [
  { sym: 'GME', cost: 280 },
  { sym: 'PYPL', cost: 234 },
  { sym: 'AMZN', cost: 3206 },
  { sym: 'AMZN', cost: 3213 },
  { sym: 'GME', cost: 325 }
]
$ stockQueue(snapshot)
$ [{ sym: 'PYPL', cost: 234 },
   { sym: 'AMZN', cost: 3213 },
   { sym: 'GME', cost: 325 }]

Cool things from around the internet

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Joke

I did a theatrical performance about puns.
It was a play on words.

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and get your calendar in order!

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

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