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Helllloooo friends!

I hope your week was a good one! I had an intense week of debugging and prepping some launches (which was fun, but tiring), and now I'm looking forward to reaping the benefits and resting up a bit. Let's learn!

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Web links of the week

Accessibility for designers: where do I start?
Using color-mix() to create opacity variants
Finding the Perfect DevRel Metric
Notes from competing in my first CTF

Something that interested me this week

This week was full of debugging and solving some interesting problems! I wrote a blog post about some of the things I worked on, and I've got more coming soon, too. Debugging is so frustrating in the moment, but the feeling of solving something is such a dang good feeling.

At work we're going to be launching new things nearly every day this next week, which is really exciting! Because my maternity leave starts end of this week (!) I admit it's hard for me to let go when it's such a busy time, but like the Jurassic Park quote says, life... finds a way!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you returns the angles at each point of a star with n points! Great job Josh, Muhammad, Ten, Carine, Ángel, Miguel, and Austin!

This week's question:
Given n points on a 2D plane, find the maximum number of points that lie on the same straight line.

Example:

> maxPointsOnLine([[1,1],[3,2],[5,3],[4,1],[2,3],[1,4]])
> 4

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Joke

What do French people call a really bad Thursday?
A trajeudi!

(in case it missed ya, "jeudi" is Thursday in French)

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and fix your posture!

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

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