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Hola hola!

We made it to mid-April, where does the time go?? I hope you had a good week. Let's get learnin'!

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Web links of the week

Tauri vs. Electron: performance, bundle size, and the real trade-offs
Mastering default values in JavaScript with the nullish coalescing (??) operator
CSS Bursts with Conic Gradients
Better typography with text-wrap pretty
A steam locomotive from 1993 broke my yarn test

Something that interested me this week

I pumped out a bunch of content this past week!

For work, I morphed a post about MCP that I wrote for my own blog last week into something a bit more business-y, and shipped the latest episode of The Download!

I also blogged a bunch of other stuff:

Things I learned while upgrading my iPad: a lot of this one is probably common knowledge, but I wanted to write it for the person out there who is like me and not fully aware of all of the Apple-isms in the world
Make your images in markdown on GitHub adjust for Dark Mode and Light Mode: A little trick I've been using on some of my repos
Keybindings I use in VS Code: I've been getting a bunch of questions about this so I figured I'd put it all in one place!

Anyway, for the 8th (!) newsletter anniversary raffle last week, winners will be pinged this week! Thanks for entering, y'all!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you generate Leyland numbers. Ya did great David, Muhammad, Elke, Ten, Austin, Jeremias, Patrycja, Nick, Levi, and Neha!

This week's question:
Given a 2D grid of integers, find the largest sum of any connected path of cells. A path consists of horizontally or vertically adjacent cells (no diagonals) and cannot reuse cells. Return the largest sum.

Examples:

const grid1 = [
  [1, 2, 3],
  [4, 5, 6],
  [7, 8, 9]
];

const grid2 = [
  [5, 3],
  [2, 8]
];

largestPathSum(grid1)
> 45 // (1 → 2 → 3 → 6 → 9 → 8 → 7 → 4 → 5)

largestPathSum(grid2)
> 18 // (5 → 3 → 8 → 2)

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🐦 "Of all possessions a friend is the most precious." - Herodotus

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April 13, 2025, 10:45 p.m.

🐦 "Of all possessions a friend is the most precious." - Herodotus

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