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September is ending, time to wake up and get ready for spooky season! Let's learn.

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Web links of the week

A guide to destructuring in JavaScript

CSS Masonry Layouts (video)

Improving rendering performance with CSS content-visibility

What I tell people new to on-call

Something that interested me this week

This week, I was on the Open Source Friday stream with one of my new teammates, Kedasha! It was really fun to explain how prompt engineering works, how we used it at my previous startup, and how I built a tool with it for GitHub Copilot.

Outside of the stream, I admit I'm still floating around in sleep regression land over here with my baby. We had one glorious day where she+we slept through the night, but it's still been rough. Hopefully she gets through it soon!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you manage laundry loads. Y'all are so clean! Awesome job Nate, Leyan, Ashish, Tianon, Claude, Ten, Kostas, Alison, John, Daniela, Lucien, Jeremias, Ricardo, Amine, and Muhammad!

This week's question:

Implement your own String split() function in your preferred programming language.

Example usage:

const str = 'This is so, so silly!';

&gt; str.split(' ');
&gt; ["This", "is", "so,", "so", "silly!"]

&gt; str.split('');
&gt; ["T", "h", "i", "s", " ", "i", "s", " ", "s", "o", ",", " ", "s", "o", " ", "s", "i", "l", "l", "y", "!"]

&gt; str.split(',');
&gt; ["This is so", " so silly!"]

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Year in Progress

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Mode Tempo keyboard with GMK CYL Modern Materials

Joke

I've started telling everyone about the benefits of eating dried grapes.

It's all about raisin awareness!

Sept. 30, 2024, 12:52 a.m.

🍊 "Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length." - Robert Frost

Web links of the week

Something that interested me this week

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Interview question of the week

Cool things from around the internet

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Sept. 30, 2024, 12:52 a.m.

🍊 "Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length." - Robert Frost

rendezvous with cassidoo

Web links of the week

Something that interested me this week

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Interview question of the week

Cool things from around the internet

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