🧼 "The most effective way to do it, is to do it." - Amelia Earhart

Hey friends!

I hope your first week of January was a good one! I feel like it was a slow start to the year for me, but it was relatively chill, at least. Let's gooo!

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Web links of the week

The world's smallest PNG
Conditionally set an HTML attribute
Do we think of git commits as diffs, snapshots, and/or histories?
TeamColors: Find and copy color values from your favorite sports teams

Something that interested me this week

The past couple weeks were really fun milestones-wise with our baby (who's already 8.5 months old now, time flies)! She's started crawling, pulling herself up, grabbing food, playing peek-a-boo, and as of the past 48 hours, waving! It's so amazing to see how she learns things and figures things out, and seeing what's interesting to her.

Back in September I interviewed a very cool artist on the Stack Overflow podcast who was interested in the concept of "childlike wonder" in his work, and I think about that all the time as I see my baby laugh at flags or stare intently at zippers. She's seeing so many things in all of their detail for the first time, and I love watching her take it all in!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you print "Happy new year!" without using the character literals in the string. It was super fun seeing the different answers! Great work Felix, Fran, Altamish, Tawseef, Ten, Muhammad, Miguel, Carlos, Arban, Neil, and Austin!

This week's question:
You have an array of letters. Return the number of possible sequences of letters you can make using the letters in the array. Extra credit: print the sequences!

Example:

> letters(['X'])
> 1

> letters(['A', 'A', 'B'])
> 8 // "A", "B", "AA", "AB", "BA", "AAB", "ABA", "BAA"

Cool things from around the internet

Want to Be a Better Leader? Stop Thinking About Work After Hours.
If We Made Shoes Like We Make Housing, People Would Go Barefoot
The step-by-step, mechanical logic of old pinball machines
Luna X1 keyboard

Joke

What is the tallest building in the world?
The library: it's got the most stories!

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and don't let your screen time get too high!

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

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