🐲 "Whoever laughs most, learns best." - John Cleese

Hey friends!

I hope you had a great week! I worked from Seattle this past week and visited vaccinated family and friends, and it was so nice. Anyway, surfin' time.

Web links of the week

How to Parse and Annotate PDFs in Node
Eva.js (Interactive Game Engine)
Design for reading: tips for optimizing content for Reader modes and reading apps
JWT should not be your default for sessions

Something that interested me this week

I mentioned before, I worked from Seattle this past week! I visited my sister and friends, and it was so good seeing people in person again. The fact that I got to play board games with them for the first time in over a year was so strange, and so fun! The world has been a scary place for so long, and even though it still is, it's always nice to take those little moments of peace and savor them.

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you determine if n and n^3 had the same digits. Great work Ten, Ashwin, Moriel, Sreetam, Gabor, Tamás, Stephen, Les, Vanessa, Mark, Jakob, Steven, Andrew, Gustavo, Jesper, Face the Wolf, Sreetam, Jean-François, David, Charles, Konstantin, Sébastien LeBlanc, Dhanush, Derrick, Leyan, Ross, Andrew, Rafael, Thomas, Ivana, and Rob!

This week's question:
Given a list of people with their names and the time slots when they are available in a given week, and a meeting length, return the first meeting time available (if possible). Format the input however you'd like to receive it!

Cool things from around the internet

HATETRIS: Tetris which always gives you the worst piece
The 80% Energy Principle
7V keyboard with GMK Minimal
How Anchors Work compilation

Joke

4, 6, 8 & 9 have all been killed.
2, 3, 5, 7 & 11 are the prime suspects.

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and eat your vegetables!

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

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