🌔 "Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life." - Anne Hathaway

Wassssap!

How are y'all doing? I hope you had a good one. I have a bit of a cold but besides that, I'm happy with things. Anyway, let's boogie!

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Web links of the week

Writing Components That Work In Any Frontend Framework
Why Signals Are Better Than React Hooks
React Server Components, without a framework?
Minimalist Affordances: Making the right tradeoffs

Something that interested me this week

I've been slowly but surely working through my to-do list this week. It's a small thing, but I've been so swamped lately that I just haven't had time! Little things like cleaning, emails, holiday decorations, donating clothes, doing laundry, that sort of thing.

When I do my task tracking, I use an app I built called todometer for getting everything down and The Sukha for "flow state" style working. I've talked about both a bunch in this newsletter before, but I'm saying it again, they're super useful!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you score words. Awesome work Varenya, Saad, Josh, Jonnie, Muhammad, Ten, Josh, Max, Miguel, Ann, Neil, Will, Martin, Jan-Magnus, 413, Karthick, Frances, and Chase!

This week's question:
Given a list of tasks, where each task has a duration, and a limited amount of available time to work, write a function to return the tasks that can be completed within the given time, without re-ordering the original list of tasks. Try to maximize the number of tasks that can be completed!

Example:

const tasks = [
  { name: 'Task 1', duration: 4 },
  { name: 'Task 2', duration: 2 },
  { name: 'Task 3', duration: 7 },
  { name: 'Task 4', duration: 5 },
  { name: 'Task 5', duration: 1 },
  { name: 'Task 6', duration: 3 }
];

const timeToWork = 6;

> doTasks(tasks, timeToWork)
> ['Task 2', 'Task 5', 'Task 6']

Cool things from around the internet

things that aren't doing the thing
Spain lives in flats: why we have built our cities vertically
Fossil Full Size keyboard with MT3 2048
Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better

Joke

The shovel was a ground-breaking invention.

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

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

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