🐞 "Shouting 'self-care' at people who actually need community care is how we fail people." - Nakita Valerio

Helllloooo!

I hope you had a good week! It's been wild seeing the air quality changes here in the US with the Canadian wildfires, I hope y'all have been staying healthy and breathing well. Anyway, let's boogie.

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Web links of the week

How to draw any regular shape with just one JavaScript function
Getting started with View Transitions on multi-page apps
Mastering CSS Blend Modes
Is React Having An Angular.js Moment?

Something that interested me this week

I had a good week! I tried to write a little code, and I didn't get super far, but I made a Pen on CodePen for fun, and made a PR in this open source alternatives repo!

Outside of that, I finished watching a bunch of TV series over the past few weeks. I think the most fun/surprising one was Girls5eva (it was hilarious, highly recommend), and I also enjoyed the endings of Ted Lasso and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you figure out how many pies to order based on what people want. And y'all want pie! Great job Priti, Mitchell, Ann, Miguel, Monica, Josh, Muhammad, Fraol, Ten, Jonnie, Vishwa, Ángel, Craig, Churchill, Daniel, Sreetam, Heather, Amine, and Craig!

This week's question:
Given an array arr and integers n and m, remove n elements from the front of the array, and m elements from the back. Assume that n + m <= arr.length.

Example:

> trimArray([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], 2, 1)
> [3, 4, 5]

> trimArray([6, 2, 4, 3, 7, 1, 3], 5, 0)
> [1, 3]

> trimArray([1, 7], 0, 0)
> [1, 7]

Cool things from around the internet

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cruel world cw60 Typing Sounds Test

Joke

Why did the chicken cross the road?
No one knows.
But the road will have its vengeance.

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and talk out your concerns with friends!

Special thanks to Gabor, IceSloth, Josh, Conor, Ezell, Ximena, Sebastián, Ben, Sema, Kinetic Labs, Vadim, Bailey, and Carmina for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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