July 29, 2024, 1:37 a.m.
🌇 "You waste years by not being able to waste hours" - Amor Tversky
rendezvous with cassidoo
Hey friends!
I can't believe how fast July flew by! It was both the shortest and longest month ever. Let's go!
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Web links of the week
So you think you know box shadows?
Build and Deploy a Full Stack AI Todoist Clone: Next.js, Convex & TypeScript (video)
Something that interested me this week
Last week I said I would show you some things I worked on, and it's time to DELIVER: This week I finished building myself a Micro Journal, which is a digital typewriter! I wrote more about it and shared photos on my blog (and I wrote that with the typewriter which was a really cool and meta experience)! I've been wanting a more "distraction-free" writing device but all of the options out there were so dang expensive, so naturally I did the engineer thing and thought spending hours building one myself would be waaay better. And speaking of things being expensive, and money, and time, and all that jazz, I wrote another blog about my feelings around making money and how weird it is!
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Interview question of the week
Last week, I had you segment words based on a dictionary! It was a funky one and y'all did great! Awesome job Muhammad, Ben, Pozorvlak, Sean, Philip John, Mazen, Ricardo, Mikayla, Amine, Vincent, Gu, John, and Ten!
This week's question:
Write a function that converts between metric and imperial units. Break up the units into millimeters, centimeters, and meters for metric, and into inches and feet for imperial, up to 2 decimal places.
Example:
> convertUnits(7, "ft")
> "2m 13cm 3.6mm"
> convertUnits(44, "cm")
> "1ft 5.32in"
(you can submit your answers by replying to this email with a link to your solution, or share on LinkedIn, Twitter, Mastodon, or Bluesky)
Cool things from around the internet
Copying is the way design works
How I give the right amount of context (in any situation)
Meet 101 year old Concettina | Pasta Grannies (video)
Building the Micro Journal (yes I'm sharing this again, I love it too much)
Joke
I was addicted to the hokey pokey, but I turned myself around!
That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and floss regularly!
Special thanks to IceSloth, Ezell, Sebastián, Ben, Kinetic Labs, and Faisal for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!
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