🛶 "There will always be enemies. Time to stop being your own." - Larry Kramer

Hello friends!

I have had a WHIRLWIND of a week, let me tell ya! I hope yours has been a good one too. Let's dig around cyberspace, shall we?

Web links of the week

Rust from a JavaScript perspective
Vue v3.1.0 Pluto
Astro: A New Architecture for the Modern Web
Flex Box Adventure

Something that interested me this week

Gosh, where to begin? So I started off the week recording a very fun episode of the Stack Overflow podcast, followed by MCing Front-End Test Fest! During FETF, the React 18 announcement came out! I whipped up a blog post of what you need to know to get started with it, and spoke about the React 18 Working Group on their Twitter Spaces event later in the week.

I spent the second half of my week in Philadelphia to celebrate my sister-in-law graduating university (woo go Clara!) and to visit the Contenda team! We spent Saturday eating tons of cheesesteaks, and then I suddenly had a call to go on Good Morning America to talk about polyworking and "changing the workforce"! The segment aired this morning on TV and it was so exciting! I admit they edited in a way I didn't expect, but hey, that's showbiz baby.

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you return products given three numbers (and returning a "lonely number" if two numbers are similar). Tons of awesome responses for this one! Great work Sébastien, Sophie, Gabor, Claude, Tobias, Damien, Rushabh, James, Gaby, Andrew, Michelle, Ricardo, Paul, Taylor, Lucie, Anh, Dym, David, Jesper, Sven, Jean-François, Face the Wolf, Ess, Ashwin, Leyan, Neeraj, Pierre, Griffin, Julien, Nathan, Rafael, Vanessa, Jace, Gerhard, Mark, Martin, refi.64, Dwayne, Avanika, Juri, Ten, Ivana, and Adam!

This week's question:
Given a direction and a number of columns, write a function that outputs an arrow of asterisks (see the pattern in the examples below)!

Example:

$ printArrow('right', 3)
Output:
*
 *
  *
 *
*

$ printArrow('left', 5)
Output:
    *
   *
  *
 *
*
 *
  *
   *
    *

Cool things from around the internet

The Deep Roots of the Vegetable That ‘Took Over the World’
When the mind's eye is blind
What happens in your brain when you ‘lose yourself’ in fiction
KBD8X with GMK Hennessey

Joke

Where do fish keep their money?
River banks!

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and don't burn out!

Special thanks to Gabor, Stephen, IceSloth, Luna, Emad, Alaska, and Josh for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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