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Howdy friends!
I hope you had a good week! I had a good long weekend spending time with friends for Juneteenth, and I'm ready to rock 'n' roll into the next one. Let's learn!
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Web links of the week
Creating Memorable Web Experiences: A Modern CSS Toolkit
The golden rule of Customizable Select
I Stored a Website in a Favicon
The Scope of CSS @function
Something that interested me this week
At work, we launched the GitHub Copilot app this week! It was a big effort across all the teams to get the word out and experiment with it. I wrote a (somewhat related) blog post all about git worktrees since the app (and many other agentic engineering tools) use them for parallel work.
Outside of work, I had a wonderful weekend with my old team from Netlify, which was a blast. We hadn't seen each other in person in years, and it was so nice catching up, hanging out, and chasing each other's kids. We're thinking about some things we can work on together moving forward, so... watch this space? Ha.
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Interview question of the week
Last week, I had you get distinct positive integers summing into a number! You plus code equals good brain thoughts, Sergio, Amine, Ten, Shreya, Greg, and the devs in the Ruby Users Forum!
This week's question:
Given inclusive unavailable date ranges, an array of override dates, and a message date, return true if the message should receive an auto-reply and false otherwise. A message gets an auto-reply only when it falls inside at least one unavailable range and is not an override date.
Examples:
const unavailableRanges1 = [["2026-07-01", "2026-07-10"], ["2026-08-15", "2026-08-20"]];
const overrideDates1 = ["2026-07-04"];
const messageDate1 = "2026-07-05";
const unavailableRanges2 = [["2026-07-01", "2026-07-10"]];
const overrideDates2 = ["2026-07-04"];
const messageDate2 = "2026-07-04";
const unavailableRanges3 = [["2026-07-01", "2026-07-10"]];
const overrideDates3 = [];
const messageDate3 = "2026-07-11";
shouldAutoReply(unavailableRanges1, overrideDates1, messageDate1)
> true
shouldAutoReply(unavailableRanges2, overrideDates2, messageDate2)
> false
shouldAutoReply(unavailableRanges3, overrideDates3, messageDate3)
> false
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Cool things from around the internet
Nibelungenlied40 | Book Split Keyboard Design
In search of Timbuktu
When one Pixar employee accidentally deleted Toy Story 2
Beyond Plastics Tracked Starbucks’ ‘Widely Recyclable’ Plastic Cups. None Ended Up at a Recycling Facility.
Joke
A man tried to sell me a coffin today.
I told him that's the last thing I need!
That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and organize your desk!
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