Chingu Weekly Update Vol. 127

News, Shout-outs & Showcases

🔥 Happy Festivus / holiday season! ⛄️

⏲ Vintage project: Volunteer Manager by a Chingu team (Layer, Nick, Phrixus)

AppVolunteer Manager App helps people to recruit and manage volunteers for a non-profit project.

Stack: MongoDB, Express, React / Redux, Node.js

Chingu project type: Tier 3 🐻

🔥 Trion made a new video on how to get Google’s infamous foobar challenge!

Google Foobar is a secret hiring challenge that allows people to solve levels and get selected by Google. There have been a lot of success stories of people getting into Google through Foobar.

(Note, these type of videos often get removed so it may stop working)

🔥 Related to the above: A few years ago Trion also wrote an awesome article on his experience doing the Foobar challenge. Definitely worth a read!

🔥 Reminder: Voyage 26 will be starting on January 4, 2021

🔥 As always, we’re matching people for pair-programming sessions this week. Checkout #chingu-news in Discord to find the link to sign-up!

Overheard in Chingu

What’s everyone working on today?

Working on algorithms

yesterday I was doing some big notation with recurrence and masters theorem

I don’t remember masters theorem anymore, I just use the tree method usually now but it is very good way, need to visit again

this AI is fun

How Bad Is Your Spotify?

Translation….they are at the bottom of the Bering Sea

A house

A slide

A gaming chair

And then last minute present wrapping and stocking stuffing

Christmas was a success at the K household. Although I got less than four hours of sleep

have you tried the spotify AI yet?

I’m scared of it. I’m a Ludditte

Resources of the Week

34 Must have Chrome Extensions for Web Developers and Designers

Quotes to Go

Here’s a deep cut gemstone:

Steve Jobs on how the computers are like a “bicycle of the mind”

Before you Go!

You can learn more about Chingu & how to join us at https://chingu.io