Hey friends!

Happy September! I will now be asleep until the end of the month. Heh. Let's learn!

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Web links of the week

Low-Poly Neon Village
The best dark mode toggle is probably none
htmx 4.0.0 has been released!
The Depths of JavaScript: Minesweeper in 247 Bytes

Something that interested me this week

I'm writing this after a fun family wedding! I spent most of the time chasing my kiddos and having a great time seeing family I hadn't seen in a while! It's been so nice having this time (yay long weekends) to be with people I care about.

I've shared a bunch of articles recently about the importance of relationships and friendships and how good it is for our brains and well-being. I really believe it! Having times like today where I can just sit and hang out with my sister and dance with cousins makes me feel grateful to have such wonderful people in my life.

And now... I will be closing my laptop to go cuddle my very tired babies.

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you climb stairs one or two steps at a time! Some of y'all found the secret little Fibonacci sequence in there, heh. Nice work Paul, Andrew, Amine, Alex, Rhett, Ten, Ricardo, Christian, and the cool cats in the Ruby Users Forum!

This week's question:
You have a backpack lock's starting position, and the code to unlock it, represented as two strings of integers. In one move, you may rotate any single digit one step up or down, with 0 and 9 considered adjacent. Return the minimum number of moves needed to transform the starting code into the unlock code.

Example:

minMoves("8051", "1199")
> 10

minMoves("000", "555")
> 15

minMoves("109", "990")
> 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

Why People Quit Blogging
Cycle8 keyboard with DCS Solar Green
I built that radio bike from mario kart world (video)
Toy Story 3: Mistakes Made, Lessons Learned (video)

Joke

Why is the ocean always blue?
Because the shore never waves back!

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and get rid of stuff you're not using!

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