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Happy August! I hope you had a great week. Mine was WILDLY busy at work, and this weekend was a welcome brain break. But now, break's over, let's learn!

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Web links of the week

CodePen 2.0
React Debugging with Performance Tracks (video)
Storybook tutorial: build and test UI components in isolation
Use-Webmcp-Tool

Something that interested me this week

This week was very packed at work, prepping for the launch of stacked PRs on GitHub! For those who don't know what that is, at a high level, it's a chain of PRs. This was a highly requested feature and my team was very heavily involved in testing it out, making content (like this blog post I wrote!), running livestreams, speaking to analysts, helping with product messaging, and mooore. It was really fun to work together in this way on a feature that developers are excited about.

Some of my fave pieces of content I made were... memes, really. I was particularly proud of this Inception one (Twitter, Bluesky, LinkedIn), and this "brainrot" one (Twitter, Bluesky), heh. Check out the GitHub feeds on your favorite network of choice for my team's weird posts!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you fulfill ice cream orders! Ice cream you scream we all scream for ice cream Ten, Paul, David, Willy, Alex, Tatiana, Thulasi, Andrew, Amine, Greg, Akhil, Christian, Nico, and the fine developers in the Ruby Users Forum!

This week's question:
Given an array of strings A, and an array of indexes B, reorder the strings in array A with the given indices in array B. You can choose to do this in-place, or return a new array. As you decide which route to take, think... which is more efficient?

Example:

let a = ['C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H'];
let b = [3, 0, 4, 1, 2, 5];

> reorder(a, b) // a is now ['D', 'F', 'G', 'C', 'E', 'H']

(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

Silver Alice Duo with GMK Camping
VibeSail: a 3D sailing game in your browser
Craft
Making Strawberry Gazpacho

Joke

Two satellites decided to get married.
The wedding wasn't much, but the reception was incredible!

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and get yourself a sweet treat!

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

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