🏒 “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy." - Leo Buscaglia

Hello friends!

Happy Easter to those who also celebrate it! I hope you all had a good weekend. I did a bunch of video chatting with family for the holiday, and got some chores done around the house. I hope you and yours are safe and healthy.
Anyway, let's groove!

Web links of the week

React Folder Structure in 5 Steps
Getting JavaScript to Talk to CSS and Sass
Building dark mode on Stack Overflow
franc: Natural language detection

Something that interested me this week

Last week we had a big raffle for a bunch of great giveaways! I closed the form and will be contacting the winners in the next 24 hours. Woo hoo!

This week kind of felt like a blur, to be honest. Being indoors and seeing a lot of the same things everyday has made even productive days not seem significant. But, in the end, I got some supplies for my Kickstarter, I had a virtual happy hour with my future coworkers at Netlify, had some virtual movie nights with friends, and got some chores done. I think this next week I'm going to have a more strict schedule for myself to make sure I have less "blurry weeks." If you've been able to fix that problem for yourself, I'd love to hear what you've figured out works!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you implement a string comparison function that took into account a backspace character. Great job Tan, Jen, Monica, Denis, Dimitris, David, Mike, Roman, Alex, Samy, Nikos, Mark, Collin, Daniel, Balaji, Brandon, Alexandre, Larry, Felabon, Martin, Edward, Ten, Sameer, Thanos, Ben, Abel, Butterfly, Riana, Qian, Bigaston, Vivek, Dan, Jakob, Jake, Jasper, and Dan!

This week's question:
Given a number n, write a function to generate all combinations of well-formed parentheses.

Example:

generateParens(3)
["((()))",
 "(()())",
 "(())()",
 "()(())",
 "()()()"
]

Cool things from around the internet

How to write on a grain of rice
keycapsets.com: Find your favorite keycaps!
The Uncensored Library (thanks for sharing this, Carolin!)
Epidemic Lofi Playlist

Joke

I haven't understood most jokes since the quarantine started.
I bet it's because they're inside jokes.

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and check in on your loved ones!

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

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