🏗 "A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." - William James

Hey friends!

Happy September! If you’ve got a long weekend this weekend, I hope you enjoy it. And if you don’t, well… enjoy it anyway! Let’s surf.

Web links of the week

On the <dl>
Accessibility from the Ground Up
Tree data structure in JavaScript
smartcrop.js: Content aware image cropping

Something that interested me this week

This was another busy week of speaking for me. I have to say though, one of my favorite things to come out of it was the latest episode of Remotely Interesting, my team’s podcast! My team tried its hardest to stay on topic, but, well… it was kind of a mess in the best way. Take a listen if you have time!

Also, friendly reminder, if you’re interested in my mechanical keyboard email course, it’s free and you can sign up here!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you find the longest common prefix in an array of strings. Awesome job Gabor, Will, Shannon, Akhil, Topher, Taylor, Andrew, Les, Thomas, Mike, Alex, Harsh, Sreetam, Chris, Jesper, Leyan, Ten, Ann, Claude, Bashu, Ben, Deepak, David, Daniel, Dhaval, Dan, Daniel, Micah, and Chris!

This week’s question:
Given two non-negative integers n1 and n2 represented as strings, return the product of n1 and n2, also represented as a string. Twist: You can’t use any built-in language integer libraries nor convert the inputs to integers directly.

Example:

$ stringProduct("123", "456")
$ "56088"

Cool things from around the internet

Behind the Pencil: The making of JuJu Brain
TX-66 with MG Ember Dawn
After Six Months On Mars, NASA’s Tiny Helicopter Is Still Flying High
An Interesting Collage - Woodturning

Joke

What do you call an English teacher who knows how to code?
A pro-grammar!

That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and don’t forget your mask at home!

Special thanks to Gabor, Stephen, IceSloth, Emad, Alaska, Josh, Conor, Ezell, Pedro, Karthic, and Ximena for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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