Hola hola amigos!

I hope you had a fun week! I enjoyed hanging out with friends and family and watching Spain win the World Cup! Let's boogie.

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Web links of the week

In defense of polyfills
How to build a design system strategy you'll actually deliver
Equinox: Test light and dark mode at the same time
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

Something that interested me this week

It was a good week! I feel like I both was wildly busy the entire time, and also like I got nothing done. We had multiple engagement celebrations, family time, friends time, work time, and some time in between to watch the show Better Late Than Single on Netflix (which is a Korean dating show that is both entertaining and infuriating). I'm also reading the book Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop now (a recommendation from a reader here!) and it's really nice so far!

Also, I noticed that the Twitter algorithm changed this week. I made a video about it, mostly in a conflicted state, because... eh, it's fun, but I'm not sure how I feel about social media platforms these days? But it also is really nice to see some online friends there again!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you spiral! With numbers! Wee Amine, Brad, Micah, Ross, David, Ten, Thulasi, Alex, Ege, Tatiana, and the devs in the Ruby Users Forum!

This week's question:
Given a string of . and _ where _ represents a blink, return the longest gap between blinks.

Examples:

countBlinks("_..__...._.")
> 4

countBlinks("...._")
> 0

(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

Spyder TKL with KAP Santa Llum
Backtrack-free cursive
Urban congestion relief experiments through routing-app interventions
The Lost Joy of Music Piracy

Joke

I startled my neighbor the other day with my new power tool.
I told them, "Don't worry, this is just a drill!"

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and decorate something to brighten your day!

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