Hello friends!
Another week, another
leek. Hope you had a good one, and if you didn't, I hope this next one is better! Apologies for sending this so late.
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Web links of the week
Write Your Own Node.js Promise Library from Scratch
Vue in Motion: Talk by Rachel Nabors
Optimizing React: Virtual DOM explained
How to Add Touch ID to Your React Native App​
CSS Only Painting Dreams Galaxy
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Something that interested me this week
As some of you know, I really enjoy playing the
board game Go. This week I made a pull request that was merged to the website that I play on,
online-go.com! The front-end for the website is all open source (
check out their links here, they even have an API for you to make go bots easily), so it's being improved fairly regularly.
The pull request I made was a super small (as in, one line of code), but it legitimately made me enjoy the site more. Whenever you open the site and you have a slower internet connection, the "loading" message on your game appears, and the shadow for that message was the color #888888, which is a light-ish gray and not the color of a normal shadow. I always thought it was ugly but didn't really think much of it, until I realized the site was open source. My pull request made the shadows are a soothing rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.26), AKA, a semi-transparent black color, and was merged in the next day!
Now, whenever I get on the site and see that loading message, I get to see my pretty shadow, and I love it. It's the little things! I guess the lesson here is that even small changes can make an impact. :)
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Interview question of the week
Got some great replies to last week's question about removing numbers greater than n in a list!
Each of these words is a link to a solution. :)
This week's question:
Given a sentence, return the number of palindromes in that sentence.
Examples:
> "Hannah eats an evil olive in her Honda Civic"
> 3
> "Flee to me, remote elf!"
> 1
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Cool things from around the internet
It's a mechanical keyboard week!
GMK Muted with shoes to boot (heh pun)
GMKÂ Griseann on XD96
NovelKeys x Kailh Box Royal review
XDA Godspeed with matching deskmat
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Joke
I once cut down a tree just by looking at it.
It's true, I saw it with my own eyes.
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Alright friends, that's all for now. Be safe, make good choices, and compliment someone today.
cassidoo
