☀️ "Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?" - Neltje Blanchan

Hello friends!

I hope your week was great. Mine was awesome because my sister got engaged this weekend! Let's boogie!

Web links of the week

GitExplorer
Cheetah Grid
Building a full-text search engine in 150 lines of Python code
Make Your Jest Tests up to 20% Faster by Changing a Single Setting
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Something that interested me this week

This was a super busy week for me! I was on Learn with Jason making some Next.js + Prismic goodies, I did a live AMA on Pluralsight's channels, I gave an Intro to Next.js webinar, I ran some internal events at work, I recorded a few podcasts and videos... overall I spoke at 12 whole events! Did NOT plan on doing that many, but sometimes everything just falls into place on a given calendar. As you can imagine, I have slept HARD this weekend.

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you generate a "super ugly number" (a positive number with prime factors in a given array). Awesome job Luciano, Elliot, clov, José, Leyan, Leslie, David, and Ten!

This week's question:
Given an array of 0s and 1s that represent a garden, where 0 is a plot that hasn't been planted on, and 1 is a plot that has been planted on, return true if n plants can be planted without touching another plant.

Example:

garden = [1,0,0,0,1]

$ canPlant(garden, 1)
$ true // plant at position 2
$ canPlant(garden, 4)
$ false // there are only 3 plots, and two of them can't be planted on

Cool things from around the internet

People Map of the US
‘Perfect’ Super Mario Bros. speedrun beat after two years
Eagle Has Landed wrist rest

Joke

What did the IKEA dresser say to the aliens after landing on their planet?
I come in pieces!

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

Special thanks to Gabor, Stephen, IceSloth, Luna, Emad, Alaska, and Josh for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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