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Hey friends!

It's a new week! I hope yours was a good one and you got enough sleep. And if you didn't... welcome to sleepytown, the water's fine! Anyway, let's boogie.

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Web links of the week

Simplifying auth flows in Expo Router with protected routes
Grainy Gradients
Coding a 3D Audio Visualizer with Three.js, GSAP & Web Audio API
Animating zooming using CSS: transform order is important… sometimes

Something that interested me this week

This week I finished reading Babel by R.F. Kuang! I enjoyed it, though it was pretty intense. I had started it a while back and just haven't had time to finish it (...because I had a baby), and it was fun to finally get some time to go through it.

I'm trying to encourage reading for my toddler, too. My current experiment with that is I have books scattered throughout our home, so I can be reading something on my own if I'm not reading one of her books to her. As a result, I'm just in the middle of a bunch of stories. I'm now reading Project Hail Mary, Truly Madly Guilty, and The Way of Kings!

Also, I did some maintenance on PocketCal this week! If you would like to support the project now, there's a "pay what you want" (lifetime!) Pro license that you can get to make up to 10 event groups. Woo hoo!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you put monarchs in order. It was a funky one! A royally good job to Elke, Chris, David, Muhammad, Ten, Pedro, Tarang, Raymond, Winnie, Colin, Patrycja, and Neha!

This week's question:
You’re given an array of siren objects, each with a start and end time in seconds, representing when the siren is active. Write a function to return the minimum number of sirens you need to remove so that no two sirens overlap.

Example:

removeSirens([
  { start: 1, end: 5 },
  { start: 3, end: 7 },
  { start: 6, end: 8 },
  { start: 8, end: 10 }
]);
> 1

removeSirens([
  { start: 0, end: 3 },
  { start: 2, end: 4 },
  { start: 5, end: 7 },
  { start: 6, end: 8 },
  { start: 8, end: 10 }
])
> 2

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That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and stretch your legs on a nice walk!

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