🚏 "If you're going to go for a thing, there's no point unless you're going all the way."

Hola hola!

I hope you had a wonderful week! I had a good one seeing friends and family, which is always refreshing. Let's boogie!

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Web links of the week

Styling the HTML details and summary elements
Node just added TypeScript support. What does that mean for Deno?
Tips on extensible and maintainable components
Why we ditched Next.js and never looked back

Something that interested me this week

I gotta say, Daylight Savings Time in the US this weekend fully messed up my brain, especially with a toddler in tow. Whew, whew!

But besides that (literal) rude awakening, it was a good and busy week. I worked a bunch on side projects (which I'm hoping I can share with you/release relatively soon), and played in a whole lot of forts at home with our new Nugget couch (not an ad, but honestly it's been so great with the family, I would totally advertise for them).

Sponsor

💻📲 Let’s go web to native with React

Expo is sponsoring this week, but I’m taking over the ad cause I’m actually building a mobile app with Expo right now, and I genuinely love it. (More on that soon.)

Expo is a React Native framework for building cross platform apps (Bluesky, for example, is built with Expo). Here’s why it’s clicking for me:

Your React skills transfer: Nearly all your app code is just JavaScript (or TypeScript).
It's really native: React Native maps to real native components, so the UI looks and feels right.
Multi-platform from one codebase: With Expo, you can build for iOS, Android, and the web at the same time. They even have hosting, so you can build, ship, and deploy all in one place.

If you’ve been thinking about building for mobile, try it with me: expo.dev

Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you determine prices based on store closing discounts! Ca-ching Ricardo, Jesper, Muhammad, Cat, Amine, Stephen, Sreetam, Tim, Neha, Shreya, Ten, Murtala, Saravana, Saleh, and Abhishek!

This week's question:
Write a function that takes a list of piano keys played in sequence and returns the largest interval (in semitones) between any two consecutive keys. Assume the lowest note is A0, and the highest is C8.

Examples:

> findLargestInterval(['A0', 'C1', 'G1', 'C2'])
> 7

> findLargestInterval(['C4', 'G4', 'C5', 'G3'])
> 17

> findLargestInterval(['E2', 'C3', 'G3', 'C8'])
> 53

(you can submit your answers by replying to this email with a link to your solution, or share on Bluesky, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Mastodon)

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Moeetech Glitter R2 with Ducky Boba Dye-Sub PBT

Joke

Never, ever shout into a colander.
You'll strain your voice!

March 10, 2025, 4:59 a.m.

🚏 "If you're going to go for a thing, there's no point unless you're going all the way." - Cynthia Erivo

Web links of the week

Something that interested me this week

Sponsor

Interview question of the week

Cool things from around the internet

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March 10, 2025, 4:59 a.m.

🚏 "If you're going to go for a thing, there's no point unless you're going all the way." - Cynthia Erivo

rendezvous with cassidoo

Web links of the week

Something that interested me this week

Sponsor

Interview question of the week

Cool things from around the internet

Joke