🍐 "Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start." - Jason Collins

Hey friends!

Phew, remember when I said I was sick last week? Turns out it was COVID. Luckily I’m on the mend, though! Let’s surf.

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Web links of the week

The fastest math typesetting library for the web.
Ultrasonic payments
Build a business card CLI tool
React-Markdown - How To Create a Copy Code Button

Something that interested me this week

This week was a lot more rough than I expected, with COVID working through me. Thank goodness though, I didn’t lose my smell or taste, it was just a lot of fatigue, voice, and sinus issues! Voice issues are not great when you regularly record podcasts (I was supposed to record 6 episodes this week… I got 1 done), but it forced me to slow down a bit and just rest.

I did binge two shows (Superstore and The Dropout), which were really fun to watch, read some books (almost done with Dark Matter by Blake Crouch and partway through Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown), and slept… a lot. Please get vaccinated if you haven’t been already! I’m boosted and it still knocked me around.

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you figure out coin combinations. There’s some really cool answers this week (including FORTRAN??), awesome work Will, Ten, Leyan, Zoe, Ramon, Mo, Amine, Dan, Giovanni, Hristiyan, Ezell, Nicole, Kelvin, Divyansh, and Shriyash!

This week’s question:
Create a loooong teeeext generator that takes in a string and an integer n, and multiplies the vowels in the string by n.

Example:

$ longText('hello world', 3)
$ 'heeellooo wooorld'

$ longText('lol', 10)
$ 'looooooooool'

Cool things from around the internet

This gaming keyboard turned gaming PC uses an Nvidia GTX 1650 Ti GPU
Where Pepper & Cinnamon Came From
Research Concludes: We Waste Our Time At Work
Once In A Lifetime

Joke

What’s the strongest bird?
A crane!

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

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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