🪸 "You may delay, but time will not." - Benjamin Franklin

Hey friends!

It feels like this month is going by both super quickly, and very slowly. I hope you're having a good one! Time to read.

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Web links of the week

Overflow Clip
Center the bottom row when using grid auto-fit (video)
Adding Bluesky Comments to Your Astro Blog
How a BBC navigation bar component broke depending on which external monitor it was on

Something that interested me this week

This week I'll be speaking at Microsoft Ignite (which you can watch for free online!) and I'm excited to meet some more coworkers in person and show them the joys of Chicago food!

Besides that... I mentioned it before, but I have really been having fun with Bluesky as a social network. It's been really lovely having a simple feed of just people that I follow, and other lists of feeds I can follow (for example, the Good Lunch feed), and not have the algorithm decide how I browse (which makes me want to update my human curation blog post I wrote a little while back). Outside of the network itself, I recommend reading about the AT Protocol, which is how Bluesky works under the hood. It's really interesting!

Last thing, I streamed Open Source Friday with Rizel Scarlett this past week! Check it out!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you look at visible buildings in a line! I loved seeing so many good answers! Great work Andreas, David, Ender, Mac, Muhammad, Miguel, Ashish, Kyle, Neil, Arban, David, Mudi, Danny, Jess, Sean, Ricardo, Amine, Jess, Sean, Ricardo, Amine, Prashant, Ten, Kriszti, and Daniel!

This week's question:
Given an array of integers representing the stock prices of a company in chronological order, write a function that determines the maximum profit you can achieve by buying and selling the stock once. If no profit can be made, return 0.

Example:

> maxTheStock([7, 1, 5, 3, 6, 4])
> 5 // (buy at 1, sell at 6)

> maxTheStock([7, 6, 4, 3, 1])
> 0 // (no profit possible)

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

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Cool things from around the internet

Cabel Sasser, Panic - XOXO Festival (2024) (video)
Balance is boring (video)
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Wind Studio Hola Mini with lubed Cherry MX Clears

Joke

Why did the coffee file a police report?
It got mugged!

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

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

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