🪑 "There is an element of failure in all success." - Simone de Beauvoir

Hey friends!

I hope you had a good Star Wars Day and Cinco de Mayo! The start of May has been a busy one for me, but also a good one. Let's go!

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Web links of the week

Printing music with CSS Grid
React 19 Beta Release: A Quick Guide
MistCSS
Securing client-side JavaScript

Something that interested me this week

Ever had one of those weeks where you were so busy, that when you sit down and try to write down what happened, you remember absolutely nothing?

...same. I know I did some Jumblie maintenance this week, and I cleaned a lot... but that's all I got. Anyway, I'm hoping to work on some personal projects this week, so with any luck I'll have a much more fun status update in the next issue!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you build a keyboard for users who typed slightly wrong. Awesome work Louis, Altamish, Ten, Maciej, Ashish, Ryan, Omri, Mazen, Kyle, Tawseef, John, and Sam!

This week's question:
Write a "word wrapping" function that takes in a string and the maximum width of a line of text, and return the text "wrapped" to that line length. Include dashes for broken words (which is included in the length of that line), and don't let a line start with a non-alphanumeric character.

Example:

let string = "Hello, world! I am hungry."
let length = 10

> wrap(string, length)
`Hello, wo-
 rld! I am
 hungry.`

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Cool things from around the internet

Satisfaction and progress in open-ended work
Teranoptia "creature" typeface
Saag65 with Linworks Green
Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software

Joke

What do dinosaurs listen to music on?
Fossil records!

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

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