Ho ho ho!

I hope you had a good week! Mine was so, so busy, and I'm really excited to chill with my family and friends for Christmas this week. Until then, let's boogie!

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Web links of the week

The JavaScript Bundler Grand Prix
In Praise of HTML and CSS
30 Years of <br> Tags
That Time I Tried Explaining HTML and CSS to My 5-Year Old Niece

Something that interested me this week

This week was so busy that my brain felt like it slowed to a halt. Tons of work (keep an eye on the GitHub YouTube channel this week), wrangling babies, travel, pre-holiday plans, family moving... it's been a lot. But! The blogging continues!

My month of Blogvent (where I write a blog post every day in December) is still going strong. Here's this week's posts!

• Influencing without authority
• Coming up with blog topics
• Things I would study more if I had time
• My inbox is so full
• Configure your repositories with .github
• I have become more of a writing utensil snob
• I like when apps are "finished"

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, y'all!

Sponsor

No sponsor this week. Please do check out some of my writing on my blog, try out my apps Ductts, PocketCal, or any of the others listed on my GitHub profile!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you make a Latin square! Bonum officium Andrew, Stephen, Krace, Toni, Zach, Amine, Daniel, Ten, Micah, Jihchi, and David!

This week's question:
An alternating array is a list of any length in which two (not necessarily different) values are alternating (all even-indexed items are equal, and all odd-indexed items are equal). Given an array, return true if it is alternating.

Examples:

[]             -> True
[1]            -> True
[1,1]          -> True
[1,2,1]        -> True
[10,5,10,5,10] -> True
[2,2,3,3]      -> False
[5,4,3,5,4,3]  -> False

(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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Joke

My friend told me that pepper is the best seasoning for a roast, but I took it with a grain of salt.

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

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

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