🧭 "If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong

Hello friends!

I hope your week was great. Mine was chock-full of meetings, but I got a lot of work done! I can’t believe it’s March. One week down!

Web links of the week

Swiper
web-minecraft
Announcing Flutter 2
How to Map Mouse Position in CSS

Something that interested me this week

This was a productivity “consolidation” week for me. I have my notes and bookmarks and tasks in some main tools, but also in other spots as well, so I’ve been trying to put everything into their designated spots. I’ve mentioned before that I use Raindrop for bookmarks (or at least, most of them), todometer for tasks (…or at least, most of them), and Bear for notes. I’ve been slowly transitioning to Obsidian for notes instead, and trying to be better about how I handle task management and keeping track of things. It’s been a learning experience, but it feels good to work on this!

Sponsor

This week’s sponsor is HarperDB!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you figure out how much paint you’d need to paint a room! Nice work Pranav, Dhanush, Leyan, Leslie, Michael, Ivana, Elliot, Steve, Alex, David, and Ten!

This week’s question:
Given a string array representing a tic-tac-toe board, return true if and only if it’s possible to reach this board position during the course of a valid tic-tac-toe game. You can assume the first player will always play X first, and players will only fill in blank spaces. The game will end if there is 3 in a row, column, or diagonal, or if the board is full.

Example:

$ validTTTPosition(["XOX", " X ", "   "])
$ false
$ validTTTPosition(["XOX", "O O", "XOX"])
$ true
$ validTTTPosition(["OOO", "   ", "XXX"])
$ false
$ validTTTPosition(["  O", "   ", "   "])
$ false

Cool things from around the internet

Lucy Parsons
On Beethoven and the Gifts of Silence
We haven’t seen a quarter of known bee species since the 1990s
TI-84 KE Build Log
My Extremely Unchill Quest to Make Hot Foods Better Cold

Joke

What type of music do balloons hate?
Pop music!

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

Special thanks to Gabor, Stephen, Shell, IceSloth, Luna, and Emad for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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