🛞 "If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived." - Sherri Shepherd

Hiiii!

I hope you had a good week! I did, and I'm excited for Pi Day this week. Let's gooo!

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Web links of the week

A Web Designer’s Accessibility Advocacy Toolkit
Some little ways I’m using CSS :has() in the real world
Apple backs off killing web apps, but the fight continues
How we engineer feedback at Figma with eng crits

Something that interested me this week

This was a good week! I was productive in shipping some code, shipping a blog post, livestreaming for the first time in a while, and I was also on the freeCodeCamp podcast!

I have been getting into a good flow of things lately. Some of you might know that I work on Brainstory in my day job. My most recent "thing" I've been doing is opening Brainstory in the morning and then I talk about what I want my day to look like. In that "session" I break down all that I have to do (I think verbally talking it out helps a lot), and then I plop the individual tasks I have to do into Sukha, and then the day just flies by as I knock things out. I'll probably tweak the process as I go, but it really worked for me this week!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you make a pomodoro timer! Awesome work Sam, Amine, Alexandra, Nathael, and Ten!

This week's question:
Given an integer array arr, return the maximum difference between two successive elements in arr's sorted form. Return 0 if there's 0 or 1 elements.

Example:

> maxGap([3,6,9,1,2])
> 3

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Joke

Where do cats write notes?
On scratch paper!

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and drink more water!

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