⚜️ "There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist." - Mark Twain

Hello fam!

I hope your week went well! I had a busy one myself. I got a new motherboard for my PC and spent a lot of the weekend rebuilding parts of my desk setup and organizing cables. It may sound boring, but I’m so happy with the result! Anyway, let’s go.

Web links of the week

Building a Markdown blog with Next 9.3 and Netlify
Neutralinojs
pico screenshots
Building A Crossword Puzzle Generator With JavaScript

Something that interested me this week

I published two blog posts this past week on the Netlify blog! One is about building a Markdown-enabled blog in Next.js (which I built a project for last week), and the second is about improving SEO on your Next.js sites. I really want to get consistent about producing content for folks out there interested in React and the Jamstack. I’m starting with Next, and I’m hoping to try out Redwood after that!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you check which words can be written on a single row on the keyboard. Amazing work Kyle, Sam, JD, Ten, Jake, Jasper, Chris, Mikey, Daniel, Sameer, Kori, Seth, Arkady, Evan, Linda, Qais, Sean, Stuart, Collin, Artem, and Felabon!

This week’s question:
Given two numbers X and Y, write a function to check that X and Y are in golden ratio.

Two numbers are in the golden ratio if their ratio is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities. Check out the formula here.

Cool things from around the internet

Playing The Legend of Zelda 20 years ago taught me life lessons that I’m rediscovering now
How Apple Reinvented the Cursor for iPad
The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months
Return 60 Cyan and White Keyboard with Tealio Switches

Joke

My sister bet me a hundred dollars that I couldn’t build a car out of noodles.
You should have seen the look on her face as I drove pasta!

That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and change the sheets on your bed.

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

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