🌿 "Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from." - Jodie Foster

Hey friends!

I hope your week was a good one! Mine was packed full of meetings, but I’m spending a bunch of time with family now, which is a nice mental reset. Let’s surf!

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Web links of the week

A Guide To Keyboard Accessibility: HTML And CSS
Why you should never use px to set font-size in CSS
Documenting knowledge: a guide to successful note-taking
Hostile Patterns in Error Messages

Something that interested me this week

I am SUPER thrilled to share that Scrabble keycaps that I designed are back on sale after 4+ years! You can get them on Clackeys here!

I first designed these caps nearly 5 years ago now, and being able to get this back out there for a V2 is a dream. This version has updated fonts and colors to match the board game branding more precisely, desk mats in a couple colors, metal artisans, and a Scrabble bag kit so you can play your favorite word game with your favorite pieces of plastic!

Also this week, the latest episode of The Dev Morning Show (at night) came out with Dalia Abo Sheasha! She and my co-host Zach and I actually went to college together, and even though we all overlapped there, we ended up in very different places in the industry. Check it out!

Also, to the Americans here, have a happy Thanksgiving week.

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This week, we’re announcing the launch of our IDE-style terminal input. Just like your IDE, Warp now has native syntax highlighting, error underlining, hover to peek definitions, intelligent command corrections, and upgraded inline command completions similar to IntelliSense.

Warp works with bash, zsh, and fish and requires zero config – plus it’s completely free and available today on Mac. Download Warp here!

Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you combine strings in an array! Great job Varun, Andy, David, Ten, Leyan, Tamás, Nate, Will, Jun, Kareem, Saad, Amine, Mykal, Miguel, Raymond, Les, Hristiyan, Max, Muhammad, Max, and Cedric!

This week’s question:
Write a function that takes a string of slashes (\ and /) and returns all of those slashes drawn downwards in a line connecting them.

Example:

$ verticalSlashes('\\\//\/\\')
\
 \
  \
  /
 /
 \
 /
 \
  \
$ verticalSlashes('\\\\')
\
 \
  \
   \

Cool things from around the internet

These companies ran an experiment: Pay workers their full salary to work fewer days
The leap second’s time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks
Coding in a war zone: Ukraine’s tech industry adapts to a new normal
Sperno59 with GMK Maestro

Joke

If all dogs go to heaven, where do cats go?
Purrrgatory!

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

Special thanks to Gabor, Stephen, IceSloth, Alaska, Josh, Conor, Ezell, Karthic, Ximena, Paige, Zev, Sebastián, Ben, Sema, Kinetic Labs, Vadim, Bailey, and Carmina for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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