All things Dev #4
Weekly Octets of Awesomeness ⚡️🦄
Worth the wait. I couldn’t keep up with the weekly email newsletter, but some sanity has prevailed, and I am going to be very regular. Say hi to #4.
I’ve always wanted an interactive IDE to interview my devs and give them relevant problems to solve in the job description. Yeah, nobody uses the traverse a binary tree interview question in a real job (unless you work in r&d). CoderPad has a go-to interview platform that solves just that.
Nova David has published an elegant article on building a Contact Management system using next.js and supabase. It’s a good start if you’ve been meaning to cure the itch to make your next side-project using supabase.
Late to the party, but if you don’t know about pandas-ai yet, please go check it out. It’s a must-learn for Python folks. Simply connect your data frame and then ask questions as you would ask your favorite LLM. Chat away! Oh, and you will need an Open API key.
This one is for those who love making the onboarding experience of a product simple and fun. Dopt lets you make onboarding experiences a breeze to build. I am currently thinking about using it for our new hires.
Coding problem
Keeping the tradition of interactivity alive. Here is this week’s activity. Solve the following coding problem to get a $50 Steam Gift Card. Share your solutions with me on twitter.
On the distant planet of Gobbledigook, aliens use a strange language for their numerical system. They have 10 unique symbols, similar to our 0-9, but rather than using the decimal system; they use a system based on their number of fingers - which is 8! This means they count in base-8, or octal.
The Gobbledigookians have reached out to humans for help with a conversion tool. They would like to input numbers in their octal system and see them translated into human (decimal) numbers.
The is to write a JavaScript or Python function that converts a string representation of an octal number from Gobbledigookian to its decimal equivalent.