Hey friends!

I hope you've had a good week! Mine has been very jet lagged (I flew back from Korea this week), but also very full of wonderful people and work to keep me busy.

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Web links of the week

How I remember link and image Markdown syntax
Wind Waker JS
Moving Railway's Frontend Off Next.js
The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code

Something that interested me this week

This is a talk-heavy month! Last weekend (I didn't talk about it as much in the last issue because it was this newsletter's anniversary), I gave a few talks in Seoul, South Korea, and this weekend I spoke at Deep Dish Swift here in Chicago! I have one more big conference to go next week (Codemotion Madrid), and then I have a lull until Microsoft Build out in June.

I also did an interview on the Write That Blog! newsletter all about technical blogging! You should blog more.

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you return combinations of Perrin numbers! Good work Thulasi, Donato, Amine, Toni, Paul, Ten, Nico, Christian, Alberto, Philip John, Ender, and the fine folks in the Ruby Users Forum!

This week's question:
You're building a pizza ordering system that enforces strict ingredient layering rules. Given an array of pizza layers (bottom to top) and a set of rules where each rule states that ingredient A must appear somewhere below ingredient B, write a function that determines whether the pizza is valid. If any rule is violated, return the pair [A, B] that was violated first (in the order the rules are given). If the pizza is valid, return true.

Examples:

const layers = ["dough", "sauce", "cheese", "pepperoni", "basil"];
const rules = [
  ["sauce", "cheese"],
  ["cheese", "pepperoni"],
  ["dough", "basil"],
];
const rules2 = [
  ["cheese", "pepperoni"],
  ["cheese", "sauce"], // "it's under the sauce"
];

validatePizza(layers, rules);
> true

validatePizza(layers, rules2);
> ['cheese', 'sauce']

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Cool things from around the internet

Artemis II - Mission Communications Archive
Most people can't juggle one ball
Early Efforts in Sticker Making
Typing test: CSTM80 keyboard with DSA Royal Navy and Gateron Yellow switches (video)

Joke

My friend Sid was a sudden ID theft victim.
Now they're just S!

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

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

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