🫐 "Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."

Hey friends!

I hope you had a good week! I celebrated my birthday with family and friends and it was a really great time. Let's learn!

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Web links of the week

CSS Wrapped 2024
Existential React questions and a perfect Modal Dialog
Building an e-commerce app in 4 hours (video)
Announcing Elementary v4.0

Something that interested me this week

I kept up my blogging this week! In case you missed it, I have been writing a blog post for every day in December. It has been kind of challenging to come up with ideas for posts (I was very optimistic when I started), BUT we're doing it!

Here's the posts I wrote this week:

Will I keep it up for another week? We'll see, heh.

Sponsor

No sponsor this week, but here's a few wonderful non-profits who could use your support this holiday season:

Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you help Santa with his roll call! Ho ho ho Andreas, Ender, droffilcasepam, Marco, David, Ten, Ashish, Austin, Kyle, Ross, Muhammad, Miguel, Diego, Alison, Jeremias, Amine, Vasanth, Ricardo, Kriszti, Chase, Phillip, and Lenny!

This week's question:
Write a function wrapGifts that finds the maximum number of gifts that can be wrapped using a single strip of wrapping paper of a given width. Each gift has a specific length, and you can only wrap gifts if their total length fits within the paper width without cutting the paper.

Example:

wrapGifts([2, 3, 4, 5], 7)
2 // either gifts 2 and 5, or 3 and 4.

wrapGifts([1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1], 3)
3

wrapGifts([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 6)
3 // 1 and 2 and 3

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Chicago Kare font by Duane King

Joke

I really don't like going to arenas because it's always SO windy in there.
There's just so many fans!

Dec. 9, 2024, 2:04 a.m.

🫐 "Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important." - T. S. Eliot

Web links of the week

Something that interested me this week

Sponsor

Interview question of the week

Cool things from around the internet

Joke

Dec. 9, 2024, 2:04 a.m.

🫐 "Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important." - T. S. Eliot

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