🎫 "It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off." - RuPaul

Heyo!

I hope you had a great week! I had a busy one and I unfortunately still have COVID, but luckily my voice is back and I’m feeling a little better. Thank you for all the kind words this past week. Anyway, let’s boogie!

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Web links of the week

Best practices for inclusive CLIs
How to build Gmail-like UI with React Native
HEXWORDS
Cool things to do with Voice Interfaces (and lots of things you shouldn’t)

Something that interested me this week

This week I was still somewhat sick with COVID, but my voice came back and so I recorded several podcast episodes! I’ll be able to give you details on those Soon™.

Besides those though, I published this article about technical debt, and watched both Severance and Only Murders in the Building. Great shows, but gosh, ending on cliffhangers!!

Also, last thing, I will be MCing Front-End Test Fest this coming Thursday! Come join in, it’s free and there’s some awesome speakers lined up!

Sponsor

This week’s sponsor is StepZen!

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P.S. StepZen is running a hackathon! GraphQL skills are in high demand today and will be applicable in your future professional projects. This challenge is meant to help developers learn and level up their skills around this hot technology. $14k available in prizes.

Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you make a loooong teeeext generator. We had so many new folks submit this week, so exciting! Awesome job Will, Tom, Ann, Ashy, Les, Ryan, Kelvin, Miguel, Andros, Neeraj, Johannes, Will, Josh, Leyan, Ten, Kobe, Charles, Wayne, Zoe, Olumide, Connor, Amine, Colin, Christian, Styg, Divyansh, Wesley, Hristiyan, Elizabeth, Gülşah, Michael, Cassidy (not me, lol), Micah, Mo, Don, Neriya, Nicole, and Ivana!

This week’s question:
Given a Fibonacci number, give the previous Fibonacci number. If the number given is not a Fibonacci number, return -1.

Cool things from around the internet

What to do when your feedback doesn’t land
Pink Owlab Spring with Brown PPS keycaps
The Great Boreout: How Boredom Can Cause Burnout, Too
Pocket Globes: The Whole World in Your Hand

Joke

What do you call a company that makes okay products?
A satisfactory!

That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and clean up the dust in your house!

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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