June 2, 2025, 1:59 a.m.

🌈 "Consistent actions produce results more often than serendipitous encounters." - J. Kelly Hoey

rendezvous with cassidoo

Helllllooo!

Happy Pride Month, and happy June! I hope the end of your May was a good one, and that your June has started strong. Let's boogie.

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Web links of the week

CSS Minecraft
My website is ugly because I made it
Exploring the OKLCH ecosystem and its tools
Announcing Rolldown-Vite


Something that interested me this week

I shipped a side project this week! It's called PocketCal and it's a simple way to find and share dates.

When you open the app (it works better on desktop, but works on mobile, too), you can click dates on the calendar to add them to a group. You can name groups of dates, add more groups, and there's some other small customizations. Then, once you're happy with it, you can share the URL to share your entire set of dates with anyone you'd like!

Here's an example of it in action!

I'm going to do a write-up about PocketCal to talk about how and why I built it in a bit more detail, but until then, I'm just happy I was able to use one of my domain names, ha!


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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you return pairs of odd numbers. Y'all did great Andy, Martin, Lars, David, Winnie, Miguel, Ten, Yacine, Neha, Muhammad, Elke, Tarang, Jeremias, Kracekumar, and Will!

This week's question:
Turn an array of integers into a nested array. You can think of this as the opposite of flattening an array!

Examples:

nestArray([1, 2, 3, 4])
> [1, [2, [3, [4]]]]

nestArray([1])
> [1]

(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

Architecture in Musical Instruments
The Who Cares Era
An Introduction to Un Kyu Lee, creator and designer of the Micro Journal
Repairable flatpack toaster
Am I supposed to meet no one?


Joke

Why do bears have hairy coats?

Fur protection!


That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and get some time in the sun!

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

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