📠 "The potential for greatness lives within each of us." - Wilma Rudolph

Hey friends!

I hope your week was good! Mine was a bit intense, but I'm excited for Leap Day later this week. Onwards!

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Web links of the week

Bloom Filters
Making SVG Loading Spinners: An Interactive Guide
Okay, Color Spaces
Express.js Spam PRs Incident Highlights the Commoditization of Open Source Contributions

Something that interested me this week

This was kind of a tough week because I got yet another cold (the joys of having a baby!), BUT outside of that, I got to do some fun things!

• I spoke on a panel about the future of Jamstack
• I worked on my game Jumblie and blogged about it
• I wrote about posting on LinkedIn (in hindsight... I should have written this post on LinkedIn)
• I got further along in the curriculum for my upcoming workshop series, Process Over Goals (sign up here to get a ping when it's live!)

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you find the maximum product of word lengths! Awesome work Varenya, Altamish, Maciej, Neil, Amos, Miguel, Ryan, Leandr, Junvic, Ten, Arban, Saad, Mitchell, Alison, Nathael, and Muhammad!

This week's question:
Given a number and a digit to remove from that number, maximize the resulting number after the digit has been removed and print it. You can choose how you want to handle a digit not existing in the number.

Example:

> removeDigit(31415926, 1)
> 3415926 // we picked the second 1 in the number.

> removeDigit(1231, 1)
> 231 // 231 > 123

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

Cool things from around the internet

Thoughts on Shareability
The Dunning-Kruger Effect
On Handwriting And Switching To Cursive
Polycarbonate Kohaku keyboard with Mode Tomorrow keycaps

Joke

Why did the opera singer go sailing?
They wanted to hit the high Cs!

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and get yourself a little treat!

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

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