🖐️ "All you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be." - Pink Floyd

Hey friends!

If you celebrate it, Happy Easter! Or Passover! Or mid-April! Let's learn.

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Web links of the week

Typography troubles: Balancing lines in Japanese & Korean
Lessons Learned from Recreating a Styled Dialog
Astro 5.7
Withdrawal of the Records and Tuples proposal for ECMAScript

Something that interested me this week

I am, as of writing, officially on maternity leave! I'm due to give birth this week and it's kind of blowing my mind that by the time the next issue of this comes out, I'll have another little human in my life.

That being said, it was a mad rush to "the finish line" to get stuff done at work before I was officially out!

• I hosted VS Code Live: Agent Mode Day!
• I livestreamed for Rubber Duck Thursdays working on some Maintainer Month (coming in May!) website changes
• I published this post about choosing an AI model for GitHub Copilot
• I livestreamed on Open Source Friday with my teammate Kedasha
• I published this post about dark mode/light mode images in GitHub Markdown (which you might recognize because I had a similar one on my personal blog last week)
• Recorded some podcast episodes that will go out... later

And one more personal thing, I finished up working with Stack Overflow on their newsletter, blog, and podcast! End of an era blog post is here. Good ending, good timing with a new kiddo, and onwards and upwards!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you sum a connected path in a grid! Awesome job Muhammad, Ten, Kyle, Nick, Saleh, and Neha!

This week's question:
Given an array of objects representing ingredients (each with a name and amount per serving), and a target number of servings, write a function to calculate the required amount of each ingredient for the target servings. Return the results as an array of objects with name and amount. Can you do this in less than 5 lines? In one?

Example:

const ingredients = [
  { name: "flour", amount: 200 }, // 200g per
  { name: "sugar", amount: 100 }, // 100g per
  { name: "eggs", amount: 2 }     // 2 eggs per
];
const targetServings = 3;

> calculateIngredients(ingredients, targetServings);
> [
   { name: "flour", amount: 600 },
   { name: "sugar", amount: 300 },
   { name: "eggs", amount: 6 }
]

(you can submit your answers by replying to this email with a link to your solution, or share on Bluesky, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Mastodon)

(you might see some repeat questions for the next few weeks because... new baby)

Cool things from around the internet

Inside Africa's Food Forest Mega-Project (video)
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Joke

What's the worst thing about ancient history class?
The teachers tend to Babylon.

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and see ya on the other side!

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

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