📀 "Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times." - Aeschylus
Hey friends!
I hope you had a good week. HUGE thank you to the thousand+ (!!) of you who replied to the last issue, I didn't expect that many, and I'm so grateful for you appealing to the Algorithm Gods for lil ol' me. Thank you thank you!
Anyway, onwards!
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Web links of the week
The Most Hearted Pens of 2025
Code is Clay
When will CSS Grid Lanes arrive? How long until we can use it?
Tips on How to Pick the Right Icons for Your Website
Something that interested me this week
This week was really a perfect storm of national news, changes at work, releases at work (check out the GitHub Copilot CLI and SDK!), busy times at home, and a hearty lack of sleep. I've been so busy but it also feels like I'm doing nothing (which isn't true... but it's a lot). I wrote one blog post on remaking the Linux touch command for Windows PowerShell, but besides that... this was a week for survival.
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Interview question of the week
Last week, I had you find and map the Konami code! This was a TRICKY one but y'all did great John, Sergio, Donato, Ten, Paul, Ender, Amine, AJ, Pranshu, John, and Varenya!
This week's question:
You are given a string consisting of lowercase words, each separated by a single space. Determine how many vowels appear in the first word. Then, reverse each following word that has the same vowel count.
Examples:
flippedy("cat and mice")
> "cat dna mice"
flippedy("banana healthy")
> "banana healthy"
(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
Poem: We Lived Happily During the War
How Bluey's Music Is Made (video)
Code & Visuals: Zootopia 2
Oblique 60 with GMK Kaiju R1
Joke
Bought a new jacket suit the other day and it burst into flames.
I can't be mad though, it was a blazer!
That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and be there for your friends!
Special thanks to Ben, Kinetic Labs, and Marta for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!
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