📙 "Try to create things that are an extension of yourself." - Rob Reiner
Hey friends!
I hope you had a good week! Mine was so busy, I'm still recovering from how fast time flew. Let's learn!
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Web links of the week
Discover Dialog
CSS Wrapped 2025
Goodbye to CFE.dev (video)
Full-circle: a time traveler's perspective on Vue (video)
Craft software that makes people feel something
Something that interested me this week
In case you missed it, I'm doing Blogvent again this year, where I write a blog post every day in December. Here's this week's posts!
- Sewing an e-reader case
- Pausing a CSS animation with getAnimations()
- Food I recommend in Chicago in 2025
- The Abilene Paradox
- Podcasts I'm listening to in 2025
- Vibe coding is boring
- Trying out Ente for media backup
Let me know what you think, or if you have any topic suggestions you'd like to hear from me!
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Interview question of the week
Last week, I had you make a data structure for a deck of cards! You win Andrew, Miguel, Stephen, Krace, Parker, Paul, Micah, Jihchi, Toni, Zach, Amine, and Ten!
This week's question:
Write a function to generate a Latin Square given a positive integer n. The values can be any n distinct values, and don't have to be consistent for different n.
Examples:
latinSquare(1)
[[1]]
latinSquare(2)
[[1, 2], [2, 1]]
latinSquare(4)
[[1, 2, 3, 4], [2, 1, 4, 3], [3, 4, 1, 2], [4, 3, 2, 1]]
(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
Mycorrhizal network
Magenta: The colour that doesn't exist
Baionlenja Synovia with lubed Cherry MX Browns Typing Sounds (video)
Em Dash Appreciation Society for Humans
Joke
Why do bears have hairy coats?
Fur protection!
That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and hang in there, the end of the year is coming!
Special thanks to Ezell, Ben, Kinetic Labs, Marta, and Flora for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!
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