🪅 "What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while." - Gretchen Rubin

Hey friends!

I hope your first full week of the year was a good one! Resolutions and goals are hard to stick with, and I hope y’all are able to keep yours going. Let’s boogie!

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Web links of the week

Vue 2022 Year In Review
Mafs: React components for interactive math
What goes into making a new Web Vital metric
Vim Online Editor

Something that interested me this week

I got to meet a bunch of my teammates in person this week! We’ve been building some really cool stuff that we’re hoping to make public soon, and being able to work with everyone in person has been really fun. I admit… I’m very much an introvert and still feel more productive when I work from home, but working around others is great to get to know each other better!

Also! I wrote up a little blog post based on one of my debugging adventures this week with Vite and React.

And finally, if you haven’t been following along (or have, but the holidays got you behind), our latest episodes of The Dev Morning Show (at night) are here! Our latest episode was with Julie Yang, VP of Product at Spec, and she was a blast to speak with. The one before that was a fun lil holiday special where it’s mostly Zach and I shooting the breeze, which was a great time.

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you return a subarray with the largest sum. It was a sneakily tough one to start the year with, awesome work Miguel, Valentin, Les, Bill, Jack, Leyan, Binh, Fraol, Chris, Muhammad, Saad, Henri, David, KurKestutis, Ten, Ricardo, Ángel, Chinar, Danny, Jun, Joe, Jan, Don, Louis, Dan, and Hristiyan!

This week’s question:
Given a number, sum every second digit in that number.

Example:

> sumEveryOther(548915381)
> 26 // 4+9+5+8

> sumEveryOther(10)
> 0 

> sumEveryOther(1010.11)
> 1 // 0+0+1

Cool things from around the internet

Lincoln Cathedral: The 950-year story of one of Europe’s very greatest cathedrals
Spencer Schien’s Fascinating Maps Visualize Population Density
Nyaong75 with TOMOcaps Fairy Type keycaps
Leaving A Tight Parking Spot Instantly

Joke

Where do bad rainbows go?
Prism! (Don’t worry, it’s a light sentence!)

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

Special thanks to Gabor, Stephen, IceSloth, Alaska, Josh, Conor, Ezell, Karthic, Ximena, Paige, Zev, Sebastián, Ben, Sema, Kinetic Labs, Vadim, Bailey, and Carmina for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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