📟 "This present moment was once the unimaginable future." - Stewart Brand

Hey friends!

I hope your week was a good one! Mine was productive and I did not sleep enough, but I had some good meals, so those make up for it... right? Onwards!

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Web links of the week

Grid First, Flex Third
A Deep Dive into the Inline Background Overlap Problem
Self Gap
Open Source Friday with Astro Docs (video)

Something that interested me this week

I had a productive week! At work, I shipped a short Markdown checklists tutorial as well as an episode of The Download, and a short video about how GitHub Copilot works!

Outside of work, I wrote about making an HTML dialog on image click (which I made for my blog), and dabbled with some Clash of Clans-style buttons on CodePen! I'm trying to make more time in the day to do more fun, small projects, and it's slowly but surely working.

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you score a cribbage hand! This one was sneakily challenging. Good job pushing through Jesper, Ten, A.D., Neha, and Levi!

This week's question:
Write a function that finds the longest streak of consecutive true values in a boolean array that meets or exceeds a given streak goal. Return 0 if no such streak exists.

Examples:

findLongestStreak([true, true, false, true, true, true], 3)
3

findLongestStreak([true, true, true, false, true], 4)
0

findLongestStreak([true, true, true, true], 2)
4

(you can submit your answers by replying to this email with a link to your solution, or share on Bluesky, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Mastodon)

Cool things from around the internet

Lazydesigners Duo with SW Foundation keycaps
Pushing side projects forward with almost no free time
Buy the Overpriced Tourist Photos
Research project Ambsheets: Spreadsheets for exploring scenarios

Joke

Did you hear about the cow with weird hearing organs?
Sound goes in one ear, and out the udder!

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

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

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