❄️ "We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.'"

Hey friends!

November FLEW by for me, it was so busy! But, it was also good to be cozy with my fam for Thanksgiving. Let's learn!

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Web links of the week

Top layer troubles: popover vs. dialog
How to Build Cinematic 3D Scroll Experiences with GSAP
How grid-template-areas Offer a Visual Solution for Your Code
How to Add and Remove Items From a Native CSS Carousel (…with CSS)
Migrating 6000 React tests using AI Agents and ASTs

Something that interested me this week

It was a good holiday week for those of us in the United States! I got to see some family for Thanksgiving and it was nice having extra hands help wrangle my kiddos. I did end up being family IT support, but that comes with the territory!

Also this week, I built a game for GitHub Game Off 2025, called Code Wave! Check it out. It was fun to build and it's also open source!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you plan a Thanksgiving meal! Awesome work David, Jihchi, Andrew, Toni, Amine, Micah, Ten, and Paul!

This week's question:
There are 16 basic HTML Colors. Write a program to output them in ascending order by HEX value. Don't use any built-in sorting methods!

Example output:

000000
000080
0000FF
008000
008080
00FF00
00FFFF
800000
800080
808000
808080
C0C0C0
FF0000
FF00FF
FFFF00
FFFFFF

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Joke

Just when you think food couldn't possibly call you on the phone... onion rings!

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Dec. 1, 2025, 3:02 a.m.