5️⃣ "Time moves slowly, but passes quickly." - Alice Walker

HellllooooOOO!

I’m so happy to be in your inbox today! It is this newsletter’s 5th year anniversary!! It’s kind of mind-blowing to me that it’s been this long, and I’m so grateful for all of you here. Let’s keep it going (also there are free things below, keep scrolling)!

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Web links of the week

Those HTML Attributes You Never Use
Creating Realistic Art with CSS
Next.js Blog Template
React v18 is released

Something that interested me this week

Heckity heck heck, the fact that this is the FIFTH year anniversary of this newsletter kind of blows my mind. This has been a project that really grew beyond what I ever expected for it, and I’m grateful to you for reading it!

For those who have been around for a while, you know that I love doing raffle giveaways every year! We have some AWESOME folks who have offered up prizes for you!

• Drop.com is raffling off 1 Signature Series Keyboard, 3 in stock Keycap sets (winner’s choice), and 5 Astrolokeys deskmats! Shipping US and CA only.
• ui.dev is giving away 3 React Query courses!
• Centered, one of my fave productivity apps, is giving away 3 t-shirts (US & CA only) and 3 premium accounts!
• Contenda, a unified content repository that helps businesses resurface and repurpose technical content, is giving away 20 custom keycaps!
• Pearly is giving away 2 DIY bubble tea kits - make delicious boba at home in under 3 minutes!
• CircleCI is raffling off 3 Sony WH-1000XM4 Noise Cancelling Headphones!
• Maslo, a personalized meal prep company, is offering 10 folks 2 free home-cooked meals!
• Docker, the world’s leading software containerization platform, is raffling off 20 t-shirts!
• FusionAuth, a developer-first customer authentication and authorization platform, is giving away 42 t-shirts!
• Ahmad Awais is raffling 3 VSCode.pro and 1 NodeCLI.com subscriptions!
• Fyne.io is giving away 10 of its original design stickers - share the GUI dev love with style!
• Basis Theory, a simple developer platform to encrypt, tokenize, and use any type of data in just a few lines of code, is giving away 5 sets of Sparrows lock picks, and one lucky Grand Prize winner will get a set of practice locks too!
• Twilio is giving away 5 fun t-shirts!
• Program With Erik is giving away 3 free copies of his Vue 360 course. This course will help you write production ready Vue.js code in no time!
• The MuleSoft Community is offering 10% off tickets for their TrailblazerDX event with code T22MMVP10PD
• Stytch is offering $500 in credits to the first 50 sign-ups to this form!
• CodeCrafters.io (Build your own Git, React, etc) is offering $20,000 in team credits for all subscribers of this newsletter! Just DM @SarupBanskota on Twitter and mention @cassidoo!
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If you’d like to enter in the raffle for all the great prizes here (huge thanks to all the folks who are offering them!), please fill out this form by Thursday at noon, Central Time to get an entry!

Once again: Thank you so much for being here. It makes my day to see tweets and replies and messages from people that enjoy reading this, and seeing you share it with others.

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you find the number of items in a closed compartment. Awesome job Gabor, Thillai, Leyan, Ten, Rafael, Adam, Joel, Giancarlo, Will, Dan, Andrew, Gülşah, Les, Don, Claude, Jonathan, and Ivana!

This week’s question is brought to you by Stytch!
Given two strings n and m, return true if they are equal when both are entered into text editors. But: a # means a backspace character (deleting backwards), and a % means a delete character (deleting forwards).

Example:

> equalWithDeletions("a##x", "#a#x")
> true      // both strings become "x"

> equalWithDeletions("fi##f%%%th %%year #time###", "fifth year time")
> false     // the first string becomes "fart"

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Cool things from around the internet

Think in Colour
Pink Floyd, a flamingo on the lam from a Kansas zoo since 2005, is seen again in Texas
h40io/Amano keyboard with GMK Evil Dolch
The Weird, Wonderful History of Fairground Photography

Joke

I switched to tech from a career in archaeology… because I heard my job would be in ruins.

That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and thank you again for being here!

Special thanks to Gabor, Stephen, IceSloth, Alaska, Josh, Conor, Ezell, Pedro, Karthic, Ximena, Paige, Zev, Sebastián, Ben, and Sema for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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