⚽ "Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them."

Hey friends!

I hope you had a good week! It was a fun Pi Day and river dyeing weekend over here in Chicago.

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Web links of the week

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Something that interested me this week

This was a long week for me, y'all. I had a ton to do at work (got some videos and blogs publishing soon, keep an eye out on GitHub's channels!) and I admit I was fighting off "pregnancy brain" with a lot of ups and downs. I'm at that point where I'm nervous about having a second kiddo, but also VERY ready to not be pregnant anymore. I wrote about that in more detail, and also about how I think we should be introducing more friction into our lives, rather than trying to smooth out everything forever.

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you get piano key intervals! Awesome job Jesper, Ten, Muhammad, Neha, Ian, Murtala, and Ricardo!

This week's question:
Write a function scoreHand(cards) that calculates the total score of a Cribbage hand. The input is an array of 5 card strings (including the starter card), where each card is represented as rank+suit (e.g., "AH", "10D", "KS"). Here are the scoring rules:

15s: 2 points for each combination of cards summing to 15
Pairs: 2 points for each pair of same-rank cards
Runs: 1 point per card in a run of 3 or more consecutive ranks

Example:

> scoreHand(["7H", "8C", "9D", "JH", "KS"])
> 5

> scoreHand(["AH", "2C", "3D", "4S", "5H"])
> 7

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Joke

What do you call a gorilla wearing headphones?

Anything you'd like, it can't hear you.

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⚽ "Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them." - Mia Hamm

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March 17, 2025, 12:38 a.m.

⚽ "Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them." - Mia Hamm

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Something that interested me this week

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Interview question of the week

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