Greetings amigos!

I hope you had a great Thanksgiving, if you celebrate it! Phew, I don’t know about you, but for me, this long weekend was a much-needed break! It’s wild to me that we’re already into the work week. C’est la vie!

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Web links of the week

Playfulness In Code: Supercharge Your Learning By Having Fun
List.js
Rethinking the JavaScript Pipeline Operator
Beginner’s Guide to Static Site Generators
Babylon.js 4.2: Simplicity Reimagined

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Something that interested me this week

One thing that I discovered this past week and have been enjoying is Raindrop, a bookmark manager! I know bookmark managers aren’t exactly a novel concept, but I haven’t used them much before and gave this one a shot.
So far, it’s been really great, especially for writing this newsletter! I’ve been able to curate links and resources in one spot (while tagging and sorting them), and it legitimately took about 20-30 minutes off of the usual time it takes me to write a typical issue. Who would’ve thought that being organized actually improves productivity? ;)

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you return true if an integer is a perfect square. Great job Alexandra, Ivana, Sam, Lakshay, Dimitris, Sreetam, Roman, Mert, Jonathan, Amy, Leyan, Prakash, Rafael, Jay, Jesús, Ma, [Angel](https://gist.github.com/angelyoung24/c052622d62340d662207d2bb3d41daa5), Jonah, Selcuk, John, Leslie, William, Ilya, Ten, and Pozorvlak!

This week’s question:
Given an array of integers and a target value, return the number of pairs of array elements that have a difference equal to a target value.

Examples:

$ arrayDiff([1, 2, 3, 4], 1)
$ 3 // 2 - 1 = 1, 3 - 2 = 1, and 4 - 3 = 1

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Cool things from around the internet

History of Online Games
A Survival Guide to Medieval Fairy Tales
First Follower: Leadership Lessons from a Dancing Guy
Pokémon Artisan Keycaps

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Joke

Why is E the nicest letter?
Because all the others are naughty.

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That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and don’t waste time worrying about things you can’t control.

Special thanks to Gabor and Stephen for supporting my https://www.patreon.com/cassidoo">Patreon and this newsletter!

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