🪇 "Don't let doubt stop you from getting where you want to be." - Jennifer Hudson

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We made it to another week! I hope you've been doing well. We have some juicy links for y'all to check out today. Let's go!

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Web links of the week

Why do reflows negatively affect performance?
A career you can be proud of
CSS Neural Network (number detection)
Union, intersection, difference, and more are coming to JavaScript Sets

Something that interested me this week

This week was both wildly busy and also felt like I didn't get enough done. C'est la vie! That being said, I did end up squeezing out some fun things, like this blog post on sorting git branches and this one on testing browser extensions. And, speaking of browser extensions, I threw this one together because I got tired of copying stuff from mailto links!

Unrelated to tech things, I learned how to use an embroidery machine this week at the library (which was unplanned but very awesome), and I started reading Two Nights in Lisbon!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you write a generator that produces values in a range! We had some fun answers for this one, great job Neil, Altamish, Miguel, Sagnik, Josh, Alex, Jonnie, Prakash, Leyan, Ryan, Charly, Josef, Amine, Amos, Usman, Claus, Christian, Muhammad, Arban, Ten, and Nathael!

This week's question:
Given a string array, find the maximum product of word lengths where the words don't share any letters.

Example:

> wordLengthProduct(["fish","fear","boo","egg","cake","abcdef"])
> 16 // "fish" and "cake"

> wordLengthProduct(["a","aa","aaa","aaaa"])
> 0 // all of them share "a"

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

Cool things from around the internet

A Love Not Meant for Me
The Pleasure of Pattern
Bin50 with SA Mizu
Page pacing

Joke

Why did Mozart get rid of his chickens?
Because when he asked them about who the best composer was, they just replied, "bach bach bach"!

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and take one of the courses you've bought!

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