Hey friends!

I hope you had a nice week. Mine was productive, which felt good! Let's learn.

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Web links of the week

How I Migrated from WordPress to Astro
How to build a copy code snippet button and why it matters
Beware the faux bold (and how to fix it)
"A calculator app? Anyone could make that."

Something that interested me this week

I got a lot done this week!

• I wrote about using the step and pattern attributes in HTML to make number inputs more useful
• I published an episode of The Download, GitHub's semi-regular short news show
• I wrote about converting a dark mode demo to light mode
• I fixed my typewriter
• I (almost!) cleared out my painfully full inbox
• Prepped for TheJam.dev this next week

I still have some things that I wished I got done, but... ya know, you win some, you lose some!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you figure out NFL uniform numbers! Awesome work Muhammad, Nwosa, Ricardo, Neha, Ten, Tim, Saleh, and Pat!

This week's question:
Given an array of attack damages and a shield capacity for a spaceship, return the index when cumulative damage exceeds the shield. Return -1 if shield survives.

Example:

> findShieldBreak([10, 20, 30, 40], 50)
> 2

> findShieldBreak([1, 2, 3, 4], 20)
> -1

> findShieldBreak([50], 30)
> 0

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Cool things from around the internet

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Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition "Atrophied and Unprepared"
The hardest working font in Manhattan
Protozoa Strata keyboard with mixed switches

Joke

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That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and don't procrastinate!

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

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