🐘 "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

Hey friends!

I hope you had a good week! Mine was PACKED with launches at work, and I'm really excited to chill with my family for Christmas this week. Until then, let's boogie!

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Web links of the week

Easing Wizard - CSS easing functions made easy
Why I’m excited about text-box-trim as a designer
Every token is a feature
PSA: Stop using the title attribute as tooltip!

Something that interested me this week

Whew, this week we had some pretty dang big launches at work and I am so glad they are out in the world now! The main big ones were that we made GitHub Copilot free (!) and that we added OpenAI's o1 model to paid Copilot plans. For the latter, I got to write the announcement post and be a little cheeky on the official GitHub blog, which was fun for me.

Also, I was a part of a livestream panel discussion about the state of JavaScript, if you want to check it out!

And at last, outside of all that, I have been keeping up with my daily blogging for Blogvent! Here's the posts I wrote this week:

Writing daily is a little stressful, but at the same time, it keeps getting easier, the more I do it. I'm glad to have gotten this far with it!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you set up a white elephant gift exchange! Good work Ricardo, Ten, Amine, and Neha!

This week's question:
At the Magic Cookie Factory, cookies are baked in factorial quantities. A cookie is "perfectly round" if its size ends with a zero. Write a function to determine how many perfectly round cookies will be made when baking with n! ingredients.

Examples:

countPerfectlyRoundCookies(5)
1 // 5! = 120, which has 1 trailing zero

countPerfectlyRoundCookies(10)
2 // 10! has 2 trailing zeros

countPerfectlyRoundCookies(100)
24

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Cool things from around the internet

Neo75 CU with GMK Modern Materials
A visual proof for the difference of two squares formula
Moon
In praise of the hundred page idea

Joke

Why don't eggs like to tell jokes to each other? Because they'd crack each other up!

Dec. 23, 2024, 1:17 a.m.

🐘 "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt

Web links of the week

Something that interested me this week

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Interview question of the week

Cool things from around the internet

Joke

Dec. 23, 2024, 1:17 a.m.

🐘 "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt

rendezvous with cassidoo

Web links of the week

Something that interested me this week

Sponsor

Interview question of the week

Cool things from around the internet

Joke