🚇 "We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails." - Dolly Parton

Hello friends!

It's November! I hope your week was a good one. I got my COVID booster shot and I feel the 5G flowing through me.

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Web links of the week

CSS-ing Candy Ghost Buttons
Game Off 2021 theme announcement
Ninja Keys
CodingFont by Typogram

Something that interested me this week

I mentioned in the last issue that I recorded some episodes for the Stack Overflow podcast, and one of them came out that was definitely near and dear to my heart. In this episode, we talked about web3, decentralization, and its implications. It definitely got real, and kind of heavy, but I think it was one of our best episodes yet. Check it out of you get the chance!

Also: I've decided to take a break from streaming this month! Come back in December for more chatter and coding.

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you find repositories using the latest version of React! Nice work Griffin, Ten, Joseph, and Randy!

This week's question:
Given an array of integers, return the index of each local peak in the array. A "peak" element is an element that is greater than its neighbors.

Example:

$ localPeaks([1,2,3,1])
$ [2]

$ localPeaks([1,3,2,3,5,6,4])
$ [1, 5]

Cool things from around the internet

Jurassic Park but with a Cat
A Prototype Original iPod
Discipline keyboard with KON MOMO keycaps
Some Whales Can Eat Upwards of 16 Tons of Tiny Shrimp a Day

Joke

I saw two barracudas the other day. It was a pairacuda!

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and be ready for Daylight Savings changes across the world!

Special thanks to Gabor, Stephen, IceSloth, Emad, Alaska, Josh, Conor, Ezell, Pedro, Karthic, Ximena, Paige, and Zev for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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