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Issue #232: "Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness." - Desmond Tutu

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Hey friends!

I hope you had a great week! I worked on some of my side projects this week and did a bunch of house cleaning. Let’s boogie.

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Something that interested me this week

I worked a bunch on one of my side projects this past week! I haven’t made the work/code public yet so there’s not much to show, BUT I had a lot of fun playing around with Prismic to generate pages and components, and built some utilities that I’ll probably blog about at some point.

I’m really excited to code on my side projects again. They’ve been sorely neglected as I’ve been a bit burnt out in the pandemic (that ol’ thing), and I’ve slowly but surely been getting back into them!


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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you implement a Wordle function! Glad to see I’m not the only obsessed nerd here. Awesome job https://twitter.com/leyanlo/status/1482951119219298305?s=20">Leyan, https://gist.github.com/BenDMyers/b51cef126e496c87fcaeea7253023509">Ben, https://twitter.com/giancarlol__/status/1483088225057058819?s=20">Gian, https://twitter.com/kbravh/status/1483075965622181888?s=20">Karey, https://twitter.com/daniValldo/status/1483043659952107526?s=20">Dani, https://github.com/wperron/wordler">Will, https://github.com/claudealdric/dsa/tree/main/rwc/2022-01-17">Claude, https://twitter.com/les_peters/status/1483170513522462730?s=20">Les, https://github.com/nooges/fs-sandbox/blob/main/wordle-guess.fsx">Danny, https://twitter.com/CerchieLucia/status/1483249737176260609?s=20">Lucia, https://twitter.com/JesperDramsch/status/1484307017279758339?s=20">Jesper, https://twitter.com/softprops/status/1483443704828514306?s=20">Doug, https://twitter.com/stef_noru/status/1483898964399345670?s=20">Stef, https://twitter.com/mkstix6/status/1483854553728655366?s=20">Mark, https://twitter.com/leanpancake/status/1484002536956862465?s=20">Leanpancake, https://twitter.com/thzinc/status/1484236770950533123?s=20">Daniel, https://twitter.com/tlgr3g/status/1484090451388993536?s=20">tlgreg, https://twitter.com/loficodes/status/1484467640479408135?s=20">David, https://twitter.com/DoniDon615/status/1484569753796628480?s=20">Don, https://twitter.com/rafaelmdribeiro/status/1484853190315102212?s=21">Rafael, https://github.com/Narnillian/Programming-challenges/tree/main/cassidoo-challenges/%23231---Wordle">Neriya, https://github.com/peterlopez/challenges/blob/main/cassidoo/2021-01-17/wordleGuess.js">Peter, https://github.com/murchu27/cassidoo-interviews/blob/main/issue231-wordle/src/main.rs">Michael, https://twitter.com/andreschort/status/1485412297807958022?s=21">Andres, and https://twitter.com/tzyinc/status/1485422414763016194?s=21">Ten!

This week’s question is sponsored by Sourcegraph!

You are given three files named first_page.txt, second_page.txt, and third_page.txt with the occurrence of at least one palindrome in each of them. Write a script to find the following:

  • The exact number of palindromes in each file.
  • **The line numbers of the palindromes in each file. **

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Joke

How do birds stay fit?
They always egg-cercise!


That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and take your clothes out of the dryer!

Special thanks to Gabor, Stephen, IceSloth, Emad, Alaska, Josh, Conor, Ezell, Pedro, Karthic, Ximena, Paige, Zev, Sebastián, and Ben for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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