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Hey friends!

I hope you had a good week! I started my new job at GitHub, which made for a very chaotic week of onboarding, but it's been really cool so far!

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Web links of the week

We use too many modals

Your company needs Junior devs

Replacing React code with CSS :has selector

CSS Features in last 5 years

Something that interested me this week

This week was my first week working at GitHub! Y'all, it was a WHIRLWIND. My schedule was packed with hours of meetings and onboarding each day, meeting a ton of people and slowly (but surely!) learning the ropes (plus I fixed a typo on the website on Day 1, an engineer's dream!).

I'm specifically working on the developer advocacy team, focusing on community and open source! It's chaotic figuring out all the people I have to meet and the things we want to ship and support, BUT I love that I can focus on the non-enterprise side of things and just make things better for open source developers. What all that means specifically... we'll find out!

Also, my AMA I did with DiscoLink came out, if you wanna see it!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you determine the rows people would take up in a theater. This one snuck up on you! A few folks said it was really fun to solve and I'm glad. Great job Nathael, Andy, Amine, Muhammad, Ricardo, Tawseef, Ten, Kyle, Sujeet, Kriszti, Jeremias, and David!

This week's question:

You are given an integer n representing the total points a team wants to score in an American football game. You need to determine the number of unique ways the team can achieve exactly n points using any combination of touchdowns (6 points), field goals (3 points), or safeties (2 points).

Example:

> waysToScore(5)
> 1

> waysToScore(12)
> 6

> waysToScore(6)
> 3

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Cool things from around the internet

life in haiku

Zoom 75 with GMK Dualshot 2 keycaps

This life-size Lego McLaren P1 can hit almost 40mph

Casio Wrist Camera photos

Joke

What kind of key opens a banana?

A mon-key!

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


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