🐝 "When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression." - Mike Jebbett

Hello friends!

I hope you had a good week. Protests are still going strong here in Seattle, and it's exciting to see change slowly happening!

Web links of the week

Cool Little CSS Grid Tricks for Your Blog
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GSAP ScrollTrigger
SVGuitar - JavaScript Guitar Chord Renderer

Something that interested me this week

This past week I built a project I call Sonnet 18 that compares GitHub repositories. It was more challenging than I anticipated! I thought it'd be a simple GitHub API call, and turned into a very big lesson in how routing works in Next.js and its newer features. I ended up writing a blog post about my learnings, if you'd like to check it out.

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you return the number of 1s of the binary representation of a number. Awesome job Stephen, Gabor, Alex, Jeff, Gino, Teja, Pranjal, Shobhit, Dominik, Ten, Shannon, Andrii, eliykat, David, Matt, Balaji, Dani, Spencer, Jacob, Kyle, Jesse, and Collin!

This week's question:
Build a fixed list combobox.
A fixed list combo box is when a user can type a certain string, and there is a list of strings that is designed to help the user arrive at a value. Here is an example of one! Build something that will take in a set of strings and return matching suggestions as the user types.

Cool things from around the internet

How much did AlphaGo Zero cost?
Why skyscraper architects always return to Art Deco
It's not how you play the game, but how the dice were made
Drop CTRL with KAT Milkshake keycaps

Joke

Why doesn't anyone know about Napoleon's siblings?
Because they were born apart.

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and finish one of your unfinished projects.

Special thanks to Gabor, Stephen, Louis, and Tom for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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