🛝 "Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge." - Audre Lorde

Hey friends!

I hope you're safe, happy, and healthy. I feel like the news has been bogging me down a bit too much lately, so I hope this can be a nice reprieve for us both!

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Web links of the week

Duplication Is Not the Enemy
CSS Grid for Multi-Sized Avatars
Write more reliable JavaScript with optional chaining
document.currentScript is more useful than I thought.
TC39 Advances Several Proposals

Something that interested me this week

Last week I mentioned that I shipped a side project called PocketCal! It's a simple way to find and share dates, and it's been fun to see folks checking out the repo and reading how I built it.

I have some other projects that I want to work on (...so many unused domain names, gosh), but have been so busy with my baby and toddler that I just sleep (or dissociate lol) if I get a moment to breathe in a day. Our youngest crossed the 6-week mark this week, which means more sleep is on the horizon, right? Right??

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you nest an array! Why? Because I'm a rascal. Great job, fellow rascals Muhammad, Winnie, Miguel, David, Saravana, Elke, Tim, Ten, Austin, ashuzon, Tom, Brian, Neha, Kriszti, Patrycja, Max, and Tarang!

This week's question:
Given an array of strings representing a sequence of traffic light states ("red" for stop, "green" for go, "yellow" for slow), write a function that returns true if the sequence could represent a valid state machine for a standard traffic light. The only valid transitions are: red to green, green to yellow, and yellow to red.

Example:

> isValidTrafficSequence(["red", "green", "yellow", "red", "green"])
> true

> isValidTrafficSequence(["red", "yellow", "green"]);
> false

> isValidTrafficSequence([])
> true

(you can submit your answers by replying to this email with a link to your solution, or share on Bluesky, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Mastodon)

Cool things from around the internet

AJAZZ AKS068 w/ Gateron Milky Yellow V2 (video)
Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Date Night Questions
Scientists create "world's smallest violin"

Joke

Just read a few facts about frogs.
They were ribbiting.

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

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

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