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Hey friends!

I hope you had a good week! Mine was very full of cleaning and catching up on a bunch of digital chores. Let's go!

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Web links of the week

Relatively New Things You Should Know about HTML Heading Into 2025
:hover > :not(:hover), sorry not sorry
2024 JavaScript Rising Stars
3D spacial scroll zoom with CSS Scroll Animation

Something that interested me this week

This was a busy first full week back at work! There was a bunch to catch up on, and my brain did not feel fully... awake.

But, it was good seeing coworkers again, doing a livestream about GitHub Copilot, planning some side projects, making some minor edits to my website, and I wrote some blog posts!

• How to use GitHub Copilot Edits
• Making my startup come back to life
• A couple CSS tricks for HTML Dialog elements

Sponsor

No sponsor this week!

But, did you know that you can join a very fun and techy Discord community via my Patreon? You should. We've been going for 5+ years, have a code of conduct and mods, and plenty of memes to go around!

Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you generate permutations of a string! Y'all did a great job on this Ashish, Amine, Muhammad, Filip, Andrew, Kyle, Hendrik, Sreetam, Ten, Shreya, Neha, and Ricardo!

This week's question:
Make a translation function for the NATO phonetic alphabet. Extra credit: Get creative with the variants!

Example:

> natoify('hello world')
> "Hotel Echo Lima Lima Oscar (space) Whiskey Oscar Romeo Lima Delta"

> natoify('3spooky5me')
> "Three Sierra Papa Oscar Oscar Kilo Yankee Five Mike Echo"

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

Cool things from around the internet

Chicago keeps its New Year’s resolution: All city buildings now use 100% clean power
Downloading the same file 102+ times
Hacktrick - A 33 key Selectric keyboard
How Google Maps fixed India's street name problem (video)

Joke

Boy: "Mama, are we pyromaniacs?"
Mom: "We arson!"

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

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

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