Hey friends!

I hope you had a good week! I have been deep into prepping for the Microsoft Build conference coming up at work and cleaning up the garage during this long weekend for us in the States. Let's learn!

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Web links of the week

When to use (and not use) CSS shorthand properties
600+ million people write right-to-left: 2 fixes your app needs
Your App Passed the Accessibility Audit. It's Still a Nightmare to Use. (video)
Better fluid sizing with round()

Something that interested me this week

This sounds really silly, but I nerd-sniped myself hardcore while playing with my toddler's Magna-Tiles this week and ended up "making" a clustering "algorithm" for grouping and sorting the tiles. I use "quotes" because it feels so obnoxious to write that, but I genuinely had a fun time figuring out the math of the grouping. I blogged about it here if you'd like to see what I'm talking about!

Also, I cut a new version of my Obsidian theme, Cardstock! You can download it from GitHub, or find it in the community themes section of the app if you use it!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you convert letter casing in a string! AwEsOmE wOrK Miguel, Ten, Peech, Trevor, David, Nico, Sergio, Amine, Sijibomi, Jeremias, Christian, Andrew, AJ, Muritala, Donato, and Toni!

This week's question:
Given a queue of customer names and an integer n, move every nth customer to the end of the line while preserving relative order otherwise.

Example:

shuffleLine(["Ada", "Ben", "Cam", "Diya", "Eli", "Fay"], 3);
> ['Ada', 'Ben', 'Diya', 'Eli', 'Cam', 'Fay']
// Every 3rd customer is moved to the end, so "Cam" and "Fay"
// are moved after the others, preserving their original order.

shuffleLine(["A", "B", "C", "D", "E"], 2);
> ['A', 'C', 'E', 'B', 'D']

shuffleLine(["Mo", "Noah", "Oli"], 1);
> ['Mo', 'Noah', 'Oli']

(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

A Strong Gust of Wind Disrupts the Mundane in ‘Jour de Vent’
Stack Overflow: When We Stop Asking
Robot submarine finds unknown structures beneath Antarctica, then loses contact and disappears
Building a handheld 8-key chording keyboard to type while walking.

Joke

Scientists finally did a study on forks.
It's about tine!

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and try a little brain exercise without AI!

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