🌵 "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." - Joan Didion
Happy July!
I hope you had a good week! I had a busy one and the long weekend here in the States was a VERY welcome step away. Let's kick off the week!
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Web links of the week
Your documentation is still in your Mum’s filing cabinet
You Can Detect if Code Is Being Run Inside a Terminal
The Goldilocks customizable select height
New in Chrome 150
Something that interested me this week
I updated my blog template this week to Astro 7! It was really fun and I blogged about the main thing I had to update to make everything work smoothly.
I've been noodling on the tech stack for my blog lately. I really like the setup, but I have noticed that my node_modules folder gets heavy because I'm using TinaCMS. I even made a video about a tool I found to clean up that folder because it was so beefy. I like that Tina is Git and markdown-based, but I might experiment with options to see if I can trim the built repo size down. We'll see!
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Interview question of the week
Last week, I had you get the mean number of bits to represent numbers! You did a bit too well Kriszti, Andrew, Alex, Amine, Ten, Paul, Ross, David, Brad, Thulasi, Nico, Shreya, and the fine folks in the Ruby Users Forum!
This week's question:
Given an n x m grid, an odd integer size, and a coordinate (row, col) representing where a firework explodes, return all grid coordinates impacted by the blast. A firework affects every cell within Math.floor(size / 2) rows and columns of the center, clipped to the grid boundaries.
Example:
> getImpactedCoordinates(5, 5, 3, 1, 1)
> [[0,0],[0,1],[0,2],[1,0],[1,1],[1,2],[2,0],[2,1],[2,2]]
> getImpactedCoordinates(3, 3, 1, 2, 1)
> [[2,1]]
> getImpactedCoordinates(5, 5, 3, 4, 4)
> [[3,3],[3,4],[4,3],[4,4]]
(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
Bring Back Crappy Forums
If you’re a button, you have one job
The Tech Tree of Milk Is Insane (video)
I built a Game Boy Themed Keyboard (video)
Joke
What do you call corn that joins the army?
Kernel!
(...this joke also works for operating systems)
That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and go appreciate some plants!
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