🚒 "If you're not failing, you're not trying." - Reshma Saujani

Helllloooo!

I don't know about your neck of the woods, but it is SNOWING here in Chicago as I write this. It feels early, but I'm embracing it and playing Christmas music. Let's learn!

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Web links of the week

Interactive Fluid Typography
Staggered Animation with CSS sibling-* Functions
The Scope Creep: A Game
How did I get here?
Grayscale testing: The missing step in color accessibility

Something that interested me this week

This was my first "real" week back to work from maternity leave (I had done a bit of work the week before, but with the team at GitHub Universe, this was my first week with everyone around)! It was A Lot™ but not in a bad way! There was a bunch of just general catch-up to do, some roles switched around, some team changes, and meetings on meetings on meetings.

That being said, it was pretty fun! I revived my livestream channel (and will be streaming again on Thursdays), and wrote a blog post about the results of this year's Octoverse report. It's bittersweet and weird to be back at work, but I'm feeling optimistic!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you plan a chess knight's move! Checkmate Taylor, David, Ten, Jihchi, Micah, Amine, Gavin, Kaartic, and Toni!

This week's question:
You are given two sorted arrays, a and b, where a has a large enough size buffer at the end to hold b (which can be spaces, zeroes, or nulls). Write a function to merge b into a in sorted order.

Example:

let a = [1, 3, 5, 0, 0, 0];
let b = [2, 4, 6];

> merge(a, b)
> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

(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

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Making content is awful now (video)
Blueberry Milk Tactile Sound Test | Drop CSTM80 (video)
The Farmers' Almanac: A Fond Farewell

Joke

Past, present, and future walked into a bar.
It was tense!

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and get to know your neighbors!

Special thanks to Ezell, Ben, Kinetic Labs, Marta, and Flora for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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