📼 "Simplicity is the glory of expression" - Walt Whitman

Hey friends!

I can't believe it's the last week of July already. I hope you're staying cool and building things you like. Onwards!

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Web links of the week

So many ranges, so little time: A cheatsheet of animation-ranges for your next scroll-driven animation
A Friendly Introduction to SVG
Why I'm Writing Pure HTML & CSS in 2025
EsJS: Lenguaje de programación en Español

Something that interested me this week

This week I went to and spoke at the latest Chicago mechanical keyboard meetup! It was really fun. I hadn't been to a keyboard meetup in a few years, and it was such a good time geeking out with people about keyboards, meeting internet friends, and seeing what people have built. I wrote a small recap post here!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you figure out how long it would take to make a mechanical keyboard! Click clack David, Colin, Elke, Jen, Ten, Sameer, Charles, Ender, Amine, and Paul!

This week's question:
Given an array of side lengths, write a function to determine they can form a hexagon with three side-length pairs (as in, three pairs of equal sides needed). Return true if possible.

Examples:

canFormHexagon([2, 3, 8, 8, 2, 3])
> true

canFormHexagon([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6])
> false

canFormHexagon([2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2])
> false

(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

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Joke

What do you call a group of disorganized cats?
A cat-tastrophe!

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

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

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