🧩 "A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are for." - Grace Hopper

Hey friends!

Another week, whew! I hope you had a good one. Mine was packed, but in a good way. Let's read!

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Web links of the week

Bézier curves in CSS
A Few Interesting Ways To Use CSS Shadows For More Than Depth
A Guide to Migrating from Webpack to Vite
E-ink is so Retropunk

Something that interested me this week

This week we had a team offsite! Our whole company (there's 8 of us) gathered and did some hackathoning, roadmap planning, and playing board games together. It was so fun but SO tiring.

I pumped out a blog post on co-authoring Git commits as a result! It's fun being able to pair program with folks and give them credit for their ideas, too.

I'll be sure to shout about some of the stuff we built this week soon, too. We've got some cool stuff cooking!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you make a guessing game! There's some really creative answers, awesome work Rob, Karthick, Jonnie, Adnan, Usman, Clifford, Cicero, Dimitris, Miguel, Kyle, Anirban, Towseef, Neil, Laurynas, Alvin, Manuel, Andrew, Raymond, Craig, Alison, Chris, Sreetam, Ten, and Phil!

This week's question:
Given a sequence of numbers, generate a "count and say" string.

Example:

> countAndSay(112222555)
> "two 1s, then four 2s, then three 5s"

> countAndSay(3333333333)
> "ten 3s"

Cool things from around the internet

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Saturn 60 custom keyboard
The Seven Sins of Writing

Joke

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It's funny, because it's true!

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

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

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