🔭 "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

Hello!

It's mid-May, hey hey! I hope you had a good week. I'm in the thick of new baby times still, but slowly coming up for air.

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Web links of the week

Creating Flower Shapes using clip-path: shape()
How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS
Gamedev.js Jam 2025 winners
Basecoat component library
Why we are still using 88x31 buttons

Something that interested me this week

I've been in a funk this week. I think I'm impatient with how long recovery takes from major surgery/giving birth/all that jazz. I've been through this before, so I know that it's normal to take a while. I should understand that both my body and my brain need time to recover.

But... I miss coding, and being creative, and making things in general. And unfortunately, when my loving family gives me time to do those things, all I can think about is that I should be cleaning something, or catching up on sleep, or taking care of my babies, and I end up spiraling around that. It's annoying.

Anyway, there's no solution here except to wait it out, give myself some grace, and enjoy some newborn cuddles (which are pretty fun, I gotta admit). This really is a time period that not enough people talk about!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you add operators to make a valid expression! Y'all did awesome David, Ten, Kasia, Muhammad, Neha, and Elke!

This week's question:
Write a function that draws an ASCII art cube of given height n.

Example:

> drawCube(2)
"
  +----+
 /    /|
+----+ |
|    | +
|    |/
+----+
"

> drawCube(4)
"
   +--------+
  /        /|
 /        / |
+--------+  |
|        |  |
|        |  +
|        | /
|        |/
+--------+
"

(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

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Thoughts on Thinking
Petrichor
LZ erGhost with GMK Katakana

Joke

I don't trust stairs. They're always up to something.

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and look at the clouds!

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

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