🌔 "Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman

Hey friends!

I hope your week and weekend was a good one! I had a great one seeing family and friends, and went to some virtual events as well. Anyway, let’s boogie.

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Web links of the week

5 Things That Make Astro Unique for Building Web Apps
What is Edge Compute? It’s kind of like knitting dog hats
The Era of Rebellious Web Design Is Here
React and React Native finally feel the same

Something that interested me this week

This week I went to some fun events! I went to a meetup about role playing games (I admit I don’t know a ton about that space, so it was fun to learn from the speakers), and The Mux Informational (they are doing some interesting things with building real-time video), and Remix Conf. They were all virtual, but it was fun getting to learn some things that I don’t know as much about, and cheer on speakers.

I also did an interview on a Brazilian channel that came out this week as well (it’s in English but has Portuguese subtitles). Please feel free to check it out!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you find the shortest paths in a 2D matrix. Great job Karey, Will, Amine, Mo, Leyan, Ten, Ben, Les, Kelvin, and Giovanni!

This week’s question:
Write a function that determines if all the characters in a given string are unique. Can you do this without making any new variables? You choose if you want to include capitalization in your consideration for this one, as a fun challenge.

Example:

> allUnique('Cassidy')
> false

> allUnique('cat & dog')
> false

> allUnique('cat+dog')
> true

Cool things from around the internet

Surviving the World’s Coldest City
The Fat Gold Guide to Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Mode Sonnet Prototype Typing Sounds
What happens to TLDs when their country stops existing?

Joke

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That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and appreciate nature!

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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