📇 "Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable." - Janelle Monae

Hellloooo!

Can you believe it’s August already? My brain is not ready for this. But alas, time goes on. Let’s look at what happened this week!

Web links of the week

What I Wish I Knew About CSS When Starting Out As A Frontender
NFC comes to the web
Gatsby Serverless Functions And The International Space Station
New in Git: switch and restore

Something that interested me this week

This was my first week in my new place in Chicago! We’ve been in the process of “moving” for a solid year now (literally one year ago this week we moved into an apartment in Seattle, then we moved to a Chicago apartment in October, and finally we’re in a more permanent spot), and it feels SO good to be able to unpack a bunch of stuff we’ve had stored up for so long. We still don’t have a lot of furniture yet, but armed with mechanical keyboards and board games, we’ll get there!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you get the number of zeros at the end of a factorial. It was really fun seeing all the responses to a very math-heavy problem! Awesome work Rob, Claude, Andrew, Lakshay, Karim, Sophie, Yair, Jesper, Craig, Samhita, Ten, Dimitris, Praneeth, Leyan, Vanessa, Alex, Rafael, Les, Bill, Ivana, and Bill!

This week’s question:
Given a 3x3, 2D array of integers, where every digit is between 0 and 9, except 7, find the minimum number of digits that must be replaced with 7s so that the sums of the numbers in each row and each column are the same.

Example:

$ missingSevens([[9,4,3],[3,4,9],[4,8,4]])
$ 0

$ missingSevens([[1,5,2],[5,9,5],[6,5,3]])
$ 4

$ missingSevens([[3,9,6],[8,5,5],[8,4,0]])
$ 2

Cool things from around the internet

Toki Pona
On hand-engraving with Thịnh Trần
How To Learn Stuff Quickly
The Perseids are on the Rise!

Joke

What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?
A carrot!

That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and stick to your plans!

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

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