😳 "When in doubt, tell the truth." - Mark Twain

Hello friends!

I'm writing this on my way to speak at Skills Matter in London! Cheerio!
 

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Web links of the week

A guide to setting up Vim for JavaScript development
Build a Material Theme
Reakit
Building a JavaScript guitar pedalboard​
 

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Something that interested me this week

Well, my phone blew up this past week. A joke tweet of mine went viral!

I made the emoji in the tweet as just a fun thing to add to Slack, and lo and behold, turns out a *lot* of people wanted to do the same. You really learn about the power of social media when stuff like this happens. Distant family, random siblings of high school friends, and old classmates have been messaging me out of the blue because of this tweet! Granted, the annoying side of it is that *so many* reposts of my tweet have been made. A bunch of Instagram accounts with millions of followers reposted it (most of the time without credit, frustratingly), and it made it to the front page of /r/me_irl and /r/memes on Reddit, too. It's been a fun few days, but I am definitely looking forward to getting my notifications back to normal!

Several people have mentioned submitting the emoji to the Unicode Consortium to make it official. I think that would be super fun, but I'm not fully sure how to go about it (or if it would be more work than it is worth). If any of you out there know about the process and/or want to help me out submitting it, that could be a fun mini side project!
 

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Interview question of the week

We had a bunch of submissions this past week for summing numbers in arrays! Here, here, here, here, and here are some great solutions in a variety of languages!
 
This week's question:
Find the last non-repeating character in a given string.

Example:
> nonRepeat('candy canes do taste yummy')
> u
 

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Cool things from around the internet

Fart Attack
Prologue: Album by Reasoner
Plaid keyboard with XDA Canvas
 

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Joke

What do you call a burning jacket?
A blazer!
 

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That's all for now folks! Have a good week. Be safe, make good choices, and don't spoil TV shows for your friends.

cassidoo