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I hope you had a good week! I enjoyed time with friends and family, ate some good food, and built some fun things too. Let's get into it!

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Web links of the week

contrast-color() beyond black & white
Stuff Everybody Knows: A guide to the rest of your web development career
Comprehension Debt - the hidden cost of AI generated code.
Two React Design Choices Developers Don’t Like—But Can’t Avoid

Something that interested me this week

This week I replaced a bunch of parts in my PC as well as my camera, and it took some effort. Desk configuration is always more annoying than you expect. I ended up blogging about my camera setup after tweaking it a bunch, and these are my latest PC parts!

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 4.7 GHz 8-Core Processor
• Motherboard: Gigabyte B850 AORUS ELITE WIFI7 ATX AM5
• RAM: Crucial Pro Overclocking 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL36 Memory
• GPU: Asus PRIME GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

Video editing has gotten MUCH faster already, which saves me a lot of time at work especially. I recorded this one about using GitHub Copilot to help me update parts of my app todometer that I had put off for literally years (I was so excited)!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you get distances to fire stations! Great work Amine, Dan, Christian, Paul, Matt, Donato, Toni, Micah, David, and the delightful folks in the Ruby Users Forum!

This week's question:
Given a text string and a pattern, implement a fuzzy string search using the Bitap algorithm that finds all positions in the text where the pattern matches with at most k errors (insertions, deletions, or substitutions). Return an array of objects containing the position and the number of errors at that match.

Example:

> fuzzySearch("the cat sat on the mat", "cat", 0);
> [{ position: 4, errors: 0 }]

> fuzzySearch("cassidoo", "cool", 1);
> []

> fuzzySearch("cassidoo", "cool", 3);
> [{ "position": 3, "errors": 3 }, { "position": 4, "errors": 2 }]

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Cool things from around the internet

The Day I Discovered Type Design
Old Pops Sheet Music Digital Collection
CannonKeys x Fnctl.co Wood Bakeneko65 with GMK Ursa
I'm OK being left behind, thanks!

Joke

What do you call a pig who does karate?
A pork chop!

(Thanks, Lynelle, for this one!)

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and do some jumping jacks!

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