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Hello friends!

I hope you had a good week! I had a very productive one, and I'm excited to keep the ball rolling this next week. Onwards!

Web links of the week

React Native Starter Kit
Write libraries, not frameworks
useWorker
Shifty: A Teeny Tiny Tweening Engine

Something that interested me this week

This past week I live-streamed with my coworker Jason! He has a weekly streaming show called Learn with Jason and we built a real-time Twitch game! We live-coded a CSS-only version of him, and hooked it up to chat commands on his show to make his beard grow and shrink based on what the chat wants! It was a blast, check it out if you have time!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you check if two numbers are in golden ratio with each other. Great job Andrii, Sameer, Matt, Ten, Jasper, Dominik, Will, Jesse, Dan, Alex, Dimitris, Kyle, and Linda!

This week's question:
Design a simplified version of Twitter, where users can post tweets, follow/unfollow others, and is able to see the 10 most recent tweets in the user's news feed.

Some useful functions to include would be getNewsFeed(userid), postTweet(userid, tweet), follow(follower, followee), and unfollow(follower, followee).

Cool things from around the internet

Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
Delivering online workshops, or the adventures of talking to a screen and still feeling connected to your audience
Space Plane: Mysterious US military aircraft launches
Exent with SA Dancer

Joke

Not to brag, but I have sychic powers.
For example, right now you’re thinking, “It’s spelled psychic, she made a typo!”

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and call someone this week.

Special thanks to Gabor, Stephen, Louis, and Simon for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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