🦧 "To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." - Elbert Hubbard

Hello!

I hope you had a great week! Mine was mostly getting more settled here in Chicago (I’ll finally be able to start streaming again this week), and it’s been great. Also, this newsletter is the first issue where there’s more than 10,000 of you!! Thank you so much for being a part of it.

Anyway, let’s go!

Web links of the week

jQuery to React: How we rewrote the HelloSign Editor
Why not Rust?
A Complete Guide to CSS Media Queries
Build a Serverless User Verification Service with Python, Twilio Verify and the Chalice Framework

Something that interested me this week

This past week I spoke at Jamstack Conf a few times! My main talk of the event (linked there) was I a fun short one about pranking people with Next.js. Check it out!

I’ll be speaking at Pluralsight LIVE this next week, alongside some awesome speakers like Angie Jones and Simone Giertz! It’s free, if you’d like to join in!

Sponsor

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you find a minimum value in a pivoted array. Y’all did great on this one! Awesome job Gabor, Wade, Mike, Anthony, Sam, Sophie, Lakshay, 40arc, Ali, Jagadish, Ten, Meagan, Kevin, Christopher, Pozorvlak, Gul, Namrata, Rafael, Arvin, Rizwan, Jeff, Tim, Leslie, and William!

This week’s question:
Given a basic Lisp-like string expression, parse it (where the available functions are add, subtract, multiply, and divide, and they all take in 2 values).

Examples:

$ babyLisp('(add 1 2)')
$ 3

$ babyLisp('(multiply 4 (add 2 3))')
$ 20

Cool things from around the internet

35 Year-Old Commodore 64 Easter Egg Hidden On Vinyl
User education as Pokemon evolutions
Mysterium with GMK Vaporwave

Joke

I bought a new thesaurus today and it’s terrible.
Not only is it terrible, but it’s also terrible!

That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and call your friends and family!

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

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