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Howdy y'all!

I hope you had a good week. Mine was fun celebrating birthdays of family and friends, and messing around with some side projects. Let's boogie.

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Web links of the week

Designing Scroll Behavior: When to Save a User's Place
Setting Line Length in CSS (and Fitting Text to a Container)
Drawing a Koala with HTML and CSS (video)
Get the index of an element within its parent

Something that interested me this week

This week kind of flew by. I did a lot of walking around Chicago with my family and just tried to be mostly offline, which has been good for my brain.

...that being said I'm also working on some side projects that I'll hopefully ship in the next few days, ha! I also wrote about a handy little GitHub Copilot Chat trick if you wanna check it out.

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you navigate a string with Vim commands! I just can't quit you, Ender, Jen, David, Winnie, Elke, Ten, Ben, Kriszti, Tarang, Andy, Sameer, Wesley, Andrew, and Jeremias!

This week's question:
You’re assembling a custom mechanical keyboard. Each required part has a delivery time in days and an assembly time in hours. You can only assemble a part after it arrives, and you can only work on one part at a time. Given an array of parts where each part is { name, arrivalDays, assemblyHours }, return the minimum total hours needed to finish assembling all parts, starting from hour 0.

Example:

minAssemblyTime([
  { name: "keycaps", arrivalDays: 1, assemblyHours: 2 },
  { name: "switches", arrivalDays: 2, assemblyHours: 3 },
  { name: "stabilizers", arrivalDays: 0, assemblyHours: 1 },
  { name: "PCB", arrivalDays: 1, assemblyHours: 4 },
  { name: "case", arrivalDays: 3, assemblyHours: 2 }
])

> 74

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Cool things from around the internet

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PC Sirius60 + Oblivion v3.1 + HMX Canglan v2 + acrylic plate + TX AP stabs

Joke

To the person who stole my place in line...
I'll be after you, now!

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and be open to new ideas!

Special thanks to Ezell, Ben, Kinetic Labs, and Marta for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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