Happy March!

I hope your February ended well. The world news is hard to read right now, but focusing on what we can control and having a little fun is good for our brains to push forward. Anyway, time to read!

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Web links of the week

Standard HTML Video & Audio Lazy-loading is Coming!
Building Fluid Typographic Scales with clamp() and :heading()
Building a Toast component
Lessons Learned from Failed Demos: Pure CSS Nav Thumb Flip on Scroll

Something that interested me this week

A couple weeks ago I mentioned that I've been working on a little side project called FancyGist, and I officially cut the v1 release! It's been really fun to work on. It's a simple project (really just the power of CodeMirror and React with a dash of serverless functions), but it's been nice to work on something that I'll use a lot personally.

Outside of that, I played with the new CodePen 2.0 editor this week, wrote about how passkeys work, and streamed. Whew!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you implement Kadane's Algorithm! Awesome work Varenya, Amine, Paul, Ten, Elke, Miguel, David, AJ, Donato, Noumisyifa, Ender, Toni, Baricus, and the fine folks in the Ruby Users Forum!

This week's question:
Find the majority element in an array (one that appears more than n/2 times) in O(n) time and O(1) space without hashmaps. Hint: the Boyer-Moore Voting algorithm might help if you can't figure this one out!

Example:

> majorityElement([2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2])
2

> majorityElement([3, 3, 4, 2, 3, 3, 1])
3

(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

Pokémon 30th Anniversary
Cosmic Sans keyboard with PBTfans Loki
Oldest cave painting of red claw hand could rewrite human creativity timeline
Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible

Joke

What's leather and sounds like a sneeze?
A shoe!

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

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