🧺 "We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list."

Hello friends!

I hope you had a great week! I took some time off work to get unpacked in my new digs. Now let's unpack... the iiiiinternet!

Web links of the week

JavaScript Kid Pix
How MDN’s autocomplete search works
Building an Automated Screenshot Service on Netlify in ~140 Lines of Code
Slinkity

Something that interested me this week

This week was a busy one, even though I was on PTO! I recorded a few podcasts (plus a few episodes came out this week like this one and this one), wrote some talks for events coming up, did a CodePen Challenge for the first time in a while, and unpacked more of our house! It's been both fun and very tiring, as you can imagine.

Sponsor

This week's sponsor is Mux!

If you’ve ever tried to do anything with video programmatically, you’ve seen the darkness. Acronyms that represent other acronyms, delivery best practices that change faster than JavaScript frameworks, and amazing tools...that come with decades of cruft and complexity. Video dominates Internet bandwidth and, for a lot of companies, engineering sprints.

Mux is the API to video that changes that. Instead of spending your time learning an entirely new vocabulary, you can just think about Video and how you want to use it. What Stripe did for payments and Twilio did for telephony, Mux does for video.

Take any video file or live stream and make it play beautifully at scale on any device, powered by magical-feeling features like automatic thumbnails, animated gifs, and data-driven encoding decisions. Spend your time building the experience and application that people want, not drudging through ffmpeg documentation.

Interview question of the week

Last week's question was a toughie! I had you do some matrix math to make sums of rows and columns the same. Major kudos to Jesper, Leyan, Topher, and Ten!

This week's question:
Given a grid size, and a set of mines (in pairs of rows and columns), generate the Minesweeper grid for that set of mines. You can use asterisks for mines, and an x for 0!

Example:

let gridSize = 5
let mines = [[1, 3], [3, 5], [2, 4]]

$ generateMinesweeper(gridSize, mines)

xxxxx
11xxx
*21xx
2*21x
12*1x

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Cool things from around the internet

The Mysterious Street Snack That Has Baffled Botanists for Decades
Sunsetter with GMK Botanical
The push for a "PBS for the internet"
Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate

Joke

What do you call a nervous javelin thrower?
Shakespeare.

Aug. 9, 2021, 12:23 a.m.

🧺 "We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list." - Michelle Obama

Web links of the week

Something that interested me this week

Sponsor

Interview question of the week

Cool things from around the internet

Joke

Aug. 9, 2021, 12:23 a.m.

🧺 "We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list." - Michelle Obama

rendezvous with cassidoo

Web links of the week

Something that interested me this week

Sponsor

Interview question of the week

Cool things from around the internet

Joke