🪻 "First we build the tools, then they build us." - Marshall McLuhan

Hey friends!

I hope you had a good week! Mine was pretty full of non-internet work around the house and with the family, which felt good and needed. Anyway, back to jamming with console cowboys in cyberspace!

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Web links of the week

CSS Intelligence: Speculating On The Future Of A Smarter Language
Quantum Internet Is (Slowly) Becoming a Reality
CSS conditionals with the new if() function
A revisit of the Every Layout sidebar with :has() and selector performance

Something that interested me this week

I have watched the movie KPop Demon Hunters multiple times this week and I'm obsessed with it and the soundtrack. If you haven't seen it, it's on Netflix! I actually recommend you don't look it up and just watch it knowing as little as possible about it. It's really, really good, and I legitimately think it's the best movie of the year so far (and my favorite movie that has come out in the past few years)!

Outside of excellent cinema, I blogged about tools on top of other tools! Shout out to Neha's Nebulous Code newsletter, where she also talked about tools (including PocketCal)!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you find a firework show's grand finale! Boom boom Ender, Elke, Winnie, Ten, Sameer, Amine, Parthipan, Varenya, Paul (who made a fun digital fireworks show!), Patrycja, and Kriszti!

This week's question:
Given a multi-line string and a sequence of Vim navigation commands (h for left, j for down, k for up, and l for right), and starting at the top-left character, write a function that processes the commands and returns the character under the cursor. If the cursor tries to move out of bounds, keep it at the last valid position.

Example:

const string = `Hello, world!
how are ya?`; // or "Hello, world!\nhow are ya?"
const commands = 'jlhll';

getCharAfterVimCommands(string, commands)
> 'w'

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Cool things from around the internet

Aguayos: Exploring the beauty of migratory flows within Latin America and the Caribbean
Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”
Inventing Japanese Braille
Hand Engineering 2000mini SE + Alu Plate + Cherry MX2A Black + KKB Soju = Keyboard Typing Test

Joke

What kind of books do skunks read?
Best-smellers!

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and watch KPop Demon Hunters please I need to geek about this with more people!

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

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