🟨 "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci

Hey friends!

Happy November! I hope you had a fun Halloween or Diwali if you celebrated either of them, and you're ready for Mariah Carey season to enter your ears. Onwards!

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Web links of the week

Making content-aware components using CSS :has(), grid, and quantity queries
How on Earth does ^.?$|^(..+?)\1+$ produce primes? (video)
Tooltip Best Practices
Building My Resume in HTML using Eleventy

Something that interested me this week

I was at GitHub Universe this week! It was WILDLY busy (I was in the keynote and helped host the livestream), and so fun. My team was involved in pretty much every part of it, from the videos to the streams to the tech demos to the scheduling to the booths to the onsite podcasts to the hackable badges... phew, it was such a production! We're all really tired, but proud of what we were able to accomplish. There were some great talks, you should check them out!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you implement a round of Yahtzee! It was fun learning how many folks had never played the game before. It's a good one! These folks are also good ones, with good answers: Muhammad, Max, Ricardo, and Ten!

This week's question:
Given an array of strings, group the anagrams together.

Example:

groupAnagrams(["eat", "tea", "tan", "ate", "nat", "bat"])
[["eat","tea","ate"],["tan","nat"],["bat"]]

groupAnagrams(["vote", "please"])
[["vote"],["please"]]

groupAnagrams(["debitcard", "badcredit"])
[["debitcard", "badcredit"]]

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

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Cool things from around the internet

Womier SK65 (video)
Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back
Turing Machine - Working LEGO Computer
How Vinyl Records Are Made (video)

Joke

Why can't your nose be 12 inches long?
Because then it'd be a foot!

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

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

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