Happy New Year!!

It's been a while since my last letter (took Christmas off, yolo). I hope you're doing splendidly and your 2018 is off to a good start.
 

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Web links of the week

How to Build an Electronic Realtime Poll in 5 Steps
I just asked 23,000 developers what they think of JavaScript. Here's what I learned.
React State vs. Redux State: When and Why?
Docusaurus
Pantone Colors: 2000-2018
 

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Something that interested me this week

Well, it's a new year! I'm personally pretty proud of a bunch of things I did this year.  It was a big year of changes, learning, and pushing out content!

• Got married
• Bought a house
• Released todometer
• Started this newsletter
• Spoke at Twilio Signal
• Spoke at DevRelCon Tokyo (visited Asia for the first time!)
• Spoke at the Grace Hopper conference
• Released my JavaScript and React Udemy course
• Got to around ~10k ranking in Go
• Had my first tweet with over 10k likes
• Learned how to solder
• Built a bunch of mechanical keyboards
• Played through Last Of Us, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and a bunch of Stardew Valley
• Went outside on occasion (but for real, I think I hiked more this year than I have in my whole life)
• Started rock climbing
• Started to learn Korean (I can say blanket and sauna, what more do you need?)

Phew. What a year. I'm really proud of how much I worked on, and I'm hoping I can do even more fun things in 2018. Also, of course I'm looking forward to seeing what YOU build too. Tweet me if ever you want me to share something you've made, I'd love to spread the word!
 

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Interview question of the week

Last time, I had you make a Christmas tree function!

My favorite solution was from @StewartUlm, and you can see it here. 

This week's question:
Given a number n, find whether all digits of n divide it.

For example:

digitsDivide(128)
> true
digitsDivide(130)
> false
digitsDivide(4)
> true

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Cool things from around the internet

How Pez Are Made
2017.12.22 GMK Nautilus
60% Mechanical Keyboard Build Guide
unDraw
 

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Joke

What did Spartacus do to the cannibal who ate his nagging wife?
Nothing, he's gladiator.
 

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Happy New Year, friends. Hope your 2018 is great. Be safe, make good choices, and don't drink and drive!

cassidoo