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Hey friends!

I hope you had a lovely week. Mine was fun visiting with family and friends for Thanksgiving, and now I'm excited to be in the "let's circle back to this in the new year" season!

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Web links of the week

An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid
Weird HTML Hacks
Intro to Shaders for Web Developers
The State of JS 2023 Survey is Now Open (if you take this, mind sharing this newsletter in the Resources section?)

Something that interested me this week

In the U.S. we had Thanksgiving this week, which was a welcome break to see friends and family! I also squeezed in some coding time, where I added a couple features to my game Jumblie that I'm excited about:

I've noticed when I talk about Jumblie to non-technical folks, almost everyone wants to play it via an app on the App Store/Play Store, rather than a web app that they can easily add to their home screen. If you've navigated that dynamic before, I'd love to hear how!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you return certain numbers between two integers. Awesome work Miguel, Saad, Ten, Fernando, Josh, Steve, Anirban, Neil, Fraol, Austin, Karthick, and Chase!

This week's question:
Given two arrays calories and prices, where calories[i] and prices[i] represent the calorie content and price of the ith food item, and a daily calorie goal, find the minimum cost to achieve or exceed the daily calorie goal. If it's impossible to meet the goal, return -1.

Example:

let calories = [200, 400, 600, 800]
let prices = [50, 60, 80, 100]
let dailyGoal = 1200

> minCostForCalories(calories, prices, dailyGoal)
> 160 // the 2nd and 4th items add up to 1200 calories for the minimum cost

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BGKYPRO GH60 keyboard
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Joke

What's the difference between a poorly-dressed person on a tricycle, and a well-dressed person on a bicycle?
Attire!

Nov. 27, 2023, 1:12 a.m.