👑 "To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true." - Bayard Rustin

Hey friends!

I hope your week was a good one. I felt like it went very slowly, but I got to see some friends and family, which was nice. And Happy Father's Day to all of the dads and dad-figures out there! Let's go!

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Web links of the week

Melanie Sumner: Why Continuous Accessibility Is a Strategic Advantage
Scroll-Driven Letter Grid
8 CSS & JavaScript Snippets for Creating Sticky Elements
A new way to style gaps in CSS

Something that interested me this week

The project that took up most of my week was building a way to generate custom open graph images for my blog! I wrote about how I did it in case you want to try it out, or at least see how I fumbled through an Astro + Puppeteer solution.

During that process I ran into a small build bug and also wrote about how I fixed Puppeteer on Netlify.

And to top off my very blog-heavy week, I wrote about a scavenger hunt project I worked on for Alinea, the three Michelin star restaurant! It's a random one, but it was fun!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you make a state machine for a street light! Ready, set, go Winnie, Chris, Elke, Ten, David, Raymond, Miguel, Kriszti, Pedro, Muhammad, Renato, Austin, Tim, Neha, and Patrycja!

This week's question:
Given an array of strings representing the names of monarchs and their ordinal numbers, write a function that returns the list of names sorted first by name and then by their ordinal value (in Roman numerals), in ascending order.

Example:

> sortMonarchs(["Louis IX", "Louis VIII", "Philip II", "Philip I"])
> ["Louis VIII", "Louis IX", "Philip I", "Philip II"]

> sortMonarchs(["George VI", "George V", "Elizabeth II", "Edward VIII"])
> ["Edward VIII", "Elizabeth II", "George V", "George VI"]

(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

On How Long it Takes to Know if a Job is Right for You or Not
Classical Guitar vs Flamenco Guitar: What's the REAL Difference?
The Punctuation Guide
Cycle7 Green keyboard with JTK Emerald keycaps

Joke

This morning I was wondering where the sun was, but then it dawned on me.

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and be open to change!

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

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