Issue #22: "Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard." - Tim Notke
Heeeellllooooo friends!
Hope you're having a good week. Mine was busy, which is better than boring. Let's get scootin.
The What and Why of Redux
Typical JavaScript interview exercises (explained)
How My 10-Year-Old Learned Javascript
As my phone started to rapidly die from the notifications, I started looking into how to find out what made the tweet so popular (besides my amazing sense of humor).
First of all, I found out that Twitter Analytics is free and pretty easy, which was a pleasant surprise. It seems more geared towards businesses, but it's fun to see the number of impressions you make over time (my tweet pushed me to over a million for the past month!) and the amount of engagement around each tweet. I also learned, fun fact, you're limited to making 1,000 tweets per day (which is a LOT of tweeting, so I doubt that'd be an issue for anyone). Anyway, after hunting around for tools, I struggled to find out which retweets pushed it out to the most people. Twitonomy was helpful, but only showed the most recent 100 retweeters on their free plan. TweetStats was also interesting, but mostly just showed graphs of who you reply to most often (that's what I found most tools to do). In the end, just from scrolling on the tweet itself, I did see that Tim Pope, SwiftOnSecurity, Stack Overflow, and the GIMP retweeted it, but that's probably as far as I'll get (without paying for a business tool, which really, I don't need). Anyway. On with the show!
For example, here’s what the spiral looks like for n = 10:
Duck BlackBird with GMK 9009, GMK Muted 3A/3C kit and Duck Block
What a Physicist Sees When She Looks at a Fancy Gown
Biography of Katherine Johnson, who turned 99 this week
Have a great week, friends! Be safe, make good choices, and consider donating to the Red Cross to support Hurricane Harvey rescue efforts.
cassidoo
Hope you're having a good week. Mine was busy, which is better than boring. Let's get scootin.
Web links of the week
How to create a Neural Network in JavaScript in only 30 lines of codeThe What and Why of Redux
Typical JavaScript interview exercises (explained)
How My 10-Year-Old Learned Javascript
Something that interested me this week
This week, I wrote a tweet that got pretty popular (before tell me how to quit vim: I know how to quit vim)!As my phone started to rapidly die from the notifications, I started looking into how to find out what made the tweet so popular (besides my amazing sense of humor).
First of all, I found out that Twitter Analytics is free and pretty easy, which was a pleasant surprise. It seems more geared towards businesses, but it's fun to see the number of impressions you make over time (my tweet pushed me to over a million for the past month!) and the amount of engagement around each tweet. I also learned, fun fact, you're limited to making 1,000 tweets per day (which is a LOT of tweeting, so I doubt that'd be an issue for anyone). Anyway, after hunting around for tools, I struggled to find out which retweets pushed it out to the most people. Twitonomy was helpful, but only showed the most recent 100 retweeters on their free plan. TweetStats was also interesting, but mostly just showed graphs of who you reply to most often (that's what I found most tools to do). In the end, just from scrolling on the tweet itself, I did see that Tim Pope, SwiftOnSecurity, Stack Overflow, and the GIMP retweeted it, but that's probably as far as I'll get (without paying for a business tool, which really, I don't need). Anyway. On with the show!
Interview question of the week
Write a function that takes in an integer n that prints a ”spiral” of n × n numbers, using constant space (no arrays allowed).For example, here’s what the spiral looks like for n = 10:
99 98 97 96 95 94 93 92 91 90 64 63 62 61 60 59 58 57 56 89 65 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 55 88 66 37 16 15 14 13 12 29 54 87 67 38 17 4 3 2 11 28 53 86 68 39 18 5 0 1 10 27 52 85 69 40 19 6 7 8 9 26 51 84 70 41 20 21 22 23 24 25 50 83 71 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 82 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81
Cool things from around the internet
Do We All See the Man Holding an iPhone in This 1937 Painting?Duck BlackBird with GMK 9009, GMK Muted 3A/3C kit and Duck Block
What a Physicist Sees When She Looks at a Fancy Gown
Biography of Katherine Johnson, who turned 99 this week
Joke
My roommate gets upset when I steal her kitchen utensils... but it's a whisk I'm willing to take.Have a great week, friends! Be safe, make good choices, and consider donating to the Red Cross to support Hurricane Harvey rescue efforts.
cassidoo