🌦 "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hey friends!

I hope you had a wonderful week! I’m very excited about mine, I’m taking a vacation for the first time in a long time visiting family. Let’s surf!

Web links of the week

Using the Switch(true) Pattern in JavaScript
SVG Kaleidoscopic Glasses
5 ways to prevent code injection in JavaScript and Node.js
Jamstack SEO Guide

Something that interested me this week

This week at work, we released a Request for Comments for Distributed Persistent Rendering! It’s a lot of fancy words for… incremental building for all web frameworks! If you’d like to play with it yourself, we released a (very) early version of this called On Demand Builders. It’s been a big team effort and I’m so excited to hear any and all thoughts you have on it!

Outside of work… I’m back on the Stardew Valley bandwagon. I have to speed up working on this newsletter so I can harvest my cabbages!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you figure out if you could plant something in a garden. Lovely work Les, Elliot, Tobias, David, Abdiel, Endy, Leyan, Mark, Evan, Amy, Michael, Oana, José, Jean-François, Ivana, Kartik, Shreya, Mike, Linda, Dhanush, Ten, and Rubén!

This week’s question:
Given an integer array, move all 0s to the end of it while maintaining the relative order of the non-zeroes. Bonus: do this without making a copy of the array!

Example:

$ moveZeroes([0,2,0,3,8])
$ [2,3,8,0,0]

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Cool things from around the internet

Lo-fi Cafe
The last men’s hotel
The Welshman who mailed himself home from Australia in a box
Iron165 FE with GMK Minimal

Joke

Here’s an awesome joke from 10-year-old Naomi!

Why did the ocean break up with the pond?
The relationship was too shallow!

That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and don’t worry too much!

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

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