Hey friends!

I hope you had a great week! Short weeks for me are always the MOST busy and I'm definitely catching up on all the things, it feels like, but it's been a fun one. Let's learn!

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Web links of the week

Why Your Website Should Never Stop Changing
Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to.
WebMCP is here (and you should care) (video)
React 19.3

Something that interested me this week

I joined The Neuron this week on a livestream to talk about GitHub for beginners! I haven't done a complete "this is what GitHub is and git and open source and a pull request" (and so on) in a long time so it was fun answering questions and seeing people get excited about what they can build.

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you solve a backpack lock! Y'all did it just in time for school Nico, Ten, Christian, Paul, Andrew, Micah, Depopam, Ricardo, Alex, Nick, Josh, Dani, Rhett, Amine, Greg, and the devs in the Ruby Users Forum!

This week's question:
Given a sentence, return the longest word whose letters appear in alphabetical order.

Examples:

> longestSorted("The autumn leaves almost glow.")
> "almost"

> longestSorted("A cool sheep sleeps.")
> ""

(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

Building a Wall Lamp From Scratch
Ori kōbō Zensai Le Chiffre with GMK Botanical
How The Heck Do Record Players Work?
Shorter is longer than longer (video)

Joke

I had a quiet game of tennis today.
There was no racket!

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and find some time to chill!

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

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