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Hey friends!

It's a new month! Time to sleep, you can wake me up when September ends.

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Web links of the week

Building a breakout element with container units

JS Dates Are About to Be Fixed

The secret inside One Million Checkboxes

Making a simple React microphone component

Something that interested me this week

This was such a busy week for me!

• I finished taking some voice lessons, which was a really cool non-tech experience to have.
• I was on the Maintainable Software Podcast recently, and you can listen to the episode here!
• I finished some contract work (I'll blog about that soon)!
• I taught a productivity workshop for DiscoLink Club!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you find substrings! There was actually a typo in the example and I fixed it in the archive. Some of y'all have eagle eyes and the typo didn't faze you, awesome job Tawseef, Ricardo, Adrianna, Muhammad, John, Cheyenne, and Ten!

This week's question:

You are given an array of strings representing a collection of shoes. Each shoe is labeled with its type ("L" for left or "R" for right) and its size. Determine the maximum number of matching pairs of shoes that can be formed.

Example:

> maxPairs(["L-10", "R-10", "L-11", "R-10", "L-10", "R-11"])
> 3

> maxPairs(["L-10", "L-11", "L-12", "L-13"])
> 0

> maxPairs(["L-8", "L-8", "L-8", "R-8"])
> 1

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Cool things from around the internet

Ultra high-resolution image of The Night Watch

Screen apnea: What happens to our breath when we type, tap, scroll

How Our Longest Nerve Orchestrates the Mind-Body Connection

Waves 60 Keyboard

Joke

What is a witch's favorite subject in school?

Spelling!

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


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