Hey friends!

I hope you had a good week. We made it to the end of August! I admit I was pretty bummed about the passing of some beloved celebs this week, but besides that, we made it through. Let's learn!

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Web links of the week

Modernist Tiles with CSS Grid
CSS Navigation Matching, Early Days
Music theory for programmers
Async Solid - Write Sync, Run Async

Something that interested me this week

I randomly stumbled upon the hobby called begleri, which is fidget toy that's basically two beads on a string.

Like any totally normal human, I did an incredibly deep dive into the history of begleri, a progression skill tree for learning how to do it, and made more than a dozen from some paracord and marbles. It's been really fun both to make them and fiddle around with them at my desk! I'm not skilled at it at ALL compared to some people but for less than 10 bucks (...and some hours), I've had a great time so far.

Sponsor

This week's anonymous sponsor would like to feature Dolly Parton's Imagination Library!

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free, high-quality books to children from birth to age five, no matter their family's income.

You can donate to the Library here, and subscribe to their mailing list here.

Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you partition an array! Good work Miguel, Nico, Stephen, Greg, Alex, Amine, Andrew, Rhett, Ricardo, Jason, Ten, Christian, Michael, Thulasi, and the fine folks in the Ruby Users Forum (who had a great discussion on the question this week)!

This week's question:
Given an integer n representing the number of steps in a staircase, return the number of distinct ways you can reach the top if you can climb either 1 or 2 steps at a time.

Example:

climbStairs(2)
> 2

climbStairs(4)
> 5

climbStairs(10)
> 89

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Cool things from around the internet

Hanging out with friends is good for your mental health.
The World Atlas of Sausages
Can bowling fix loneliness? (video)
V4N4G0N r1 keyboard with Olivia++ keycaps

Joke

Why couldn’t the pasta get into its apartment?
Gnoccis!

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

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

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