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Hey friends!

I don't know about you and your area of the world, but I am very excited for sweata weatha season to be upon us here in Chicago. I hope your week was a good one, let's boogie!

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Web links of the week

First look at Astro 5 beta (video)
GitHub trick to find the commit that deleted a file
The “Other” C in CSS (video)
The continuing tragedy of emoji on the web

Something that interested me this week

This week I admit was kind of rough for me because my 17-month-old has been going through a sleep regression and that means... I don't get to sleep well. But, we're hanging in there!

That being said, at work GitHub released in public beta Copilot Extensions and it's been SUPER cool to play with them. I admit building them is a little confusing since they're pretty new and they don't have a lot of examples yet (I wrote a blog about how to build one that should be published Soon™, and these repos are very helpful). I made a voice-powered code extension in less than an hour that was so fun to play with, I literally squealed watching it work. I know I sound like such a shill for my new workplace, but I love working on something that feels like it's changing the game!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you find ways to score in American football! Many Europeans shouted at me and I simply saluted the eagle flying past my window screeching "freedom." Anyway, awesome work Claude, Kyle, Ashish, Max, Ten, Alison, Amine, Ricardo, Varenya, and Muhammad!

This week's question:
You're designing a smart laundry sorting system. You have a list of clothing items, each with a color and a fabric type. Sort these items into the minimum number of loads n and return n, where items of the same color can be washed together, and some different fabric types cannot be mixed together. "Normal" fabric types can be mixed with "heavy", but "delicate" cannot be mixed with anything.

Example:

let load1 = [
    ["red", "normal"],
    ["blue", "normal"],
    ["red", "delicate"],
    ["blue", "heavy"]
]

let load2 = [
    ["white", "normal"],
    ["white", "delicate"],
    ["white", "normal"],
    ["white", "heavy"]
]

> minLaundryLoads(load1)
> 3 // one delicate red, one normal red, and one with the blues

> minLaundryLoads(load2)
> 2 // one delicate white, one with everything else

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

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Joke

What happens to an illegally parked frog?
It gets toad away!

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and eat something that makes you happy!

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