🚜 "Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great." - Cher

Wassaaaap!

I hope you had a good week! I started watching the k-drama Queen of Tears and it's pretty much all I can think about. Onwards!

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Web links of the week

Data Fetching Patterns in Single-Page Applications
Let's hang! An intro to CSS Anchor Positioning with basic examples
How Deep is Your DOM?
The Last Tech Podcast: Rizèl Scarlett

Something that interested me this week

I asked last week about time zones and had so many responses from y'all, which can be summed up as: run away! So... I'm not sure what I'm going to do there. But I greatly appreciate the help, heh.

On an entirely different note, but an exciting + random one... I met Joan Cusack?? For some context, she owns a store in Chicago! I went in to browse, and she was just stocking shelves and she struck up a conversation asking me about my baby (who was with me and was a great little wingwoman)! I fully geeked out and tried to play it cool as I told her I loved her movies. She was so kind and it made my weekend!

Also, last thing, Jumblie just hit its 250th puzzle!! Thanks y'all for playing!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you return sorted, even numbers! Y'all did this one in some funky ways and languages, I loved it. Awesome job Patrick, Clifford, Miguel, Muhammad, Altamish, Andy, Dayo, John, Danny, Alison, Dale, Sean, Azeez, Ross, Simon, Ricardo, Warren, Amine, Mazen, Stefan, Ten, and Dan!

This week's question:
Write a function that takes an array of integers and a target sum, and returns all unique quadruplets [a, b, c, d] in the array such that a + b + c + d = target. If it's impossible, return an empty array.

Example:

> fourSum([1, 0, -1, 0, -2, 2], 0)
> [[-2, -1, 1, 2], [-2, 0, 0, 2], [-1, 0, 0, 1]]

> fourSum([], 0)
> []

> fourSum([1, -2, -5, -4, -3, 3, 3, 5], -11)
> [[-5, -4, -3, 1]]

(you can submit your answers by replying to this email with a link to your solution, or share on LinkedIn, Twitter, Mastodon, or Bluesky)

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With experi-mints!

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and get rid of things that don't spark joy!

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