🎳 "Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters." - Margaret Peters

Hello friends!

I hope you had a good week. Mine was packed with meetings and I'm excited for the one ahead. Let's boogie!

Web links of the week

How to Control Hue Lights with JavaScript
Why Tailwind isn't for me
You should use React.memo more!
Creating comic book speech bubbles with SVG and JavaScript

Something that interested me this week

This past week I tried writing in Vue.js for the first time! Well, kind of. I tried out Vue several years ago when it was a little less stable (I think the project/talk I made was out-of-date within a week), so it was fun doing it for the first time "for real".

I made a small project with a simple counter and to-do list. I built it live on my streaming channel and got advice from the chat along the way, and it was a really enjoyable time. I was really impressed with how simple the API was, and how it handled small things like events and array mutations. I'd still have to get used to how logic is spread around if I were to build more with it, but I liked experimenting with it!

Sponsor

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you design a hashmap. Great job Leslie, Diego, Kev, Moshe, Leyan, David, Colby, Luciano, Carlos, Elliot, Dimitris, Gustavo, Jose, Jonathan, and Ten!

This week's question:
Given an n x n array, rotate it 90 degrees without making a new array.

Example:

$ rotate90([[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]])
$ [[7,4,1],[8,5,2],[9,6,3]]

Cool things from around the internet

The Architecture of Mass Vaccine Distribution
Earthrise: A Poem About Climate Change by Amanda Gorman
How tag became a professional sport
GMK Taro on TGR Alice

Joke

What do sprinters eat before a race?
Nothing, they fast!

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

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

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