🦄 "Your self-worth is determined by you." - Beyoncé

Hey friends!

Happy September! I hope y'all had a good end to August. I'm excited for the impending sweater weather. Let's go!

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Web links of the week

React Suspense in three different architectures
WebGL Image Manipulation
The Grug Brained Developer: A layman's guide to thinking like the self-aware smol brained
linear() generator

Something that interested me this week

I got one of those fitness tracking watches earlier this year to track my heart rate at the end of my pregnancy. I gotta say, my fitness was pretty non-existent for a while (being pregnant, newly postpartum, and also kinda just being lazy in general). BUT, this past weekend marked my "filling my rings" everyday for a solid month! I don't do super intensive exercise, but I follow some YouTube channels that have helped me ramp up. This one is a Korean channel of light cardio, and this one is yoga specifically for postpartum folks who are recovering. I won't be doing any marathons anytime soon, but this is honestly the most consistent exercising I've done in years, so I'm proud of it!

Sponsor

🦋 September 2023 Hackathon - sponsored by Xata

💰Enter to win $500💰 During the month of September, Xata, the serverless data platform powered by Postgres, will be sponsoring a hackathon. We will be giving away prizes that include:

• 💰 5 prizes of $500 each
• 📦 10 special swag packages (🧢 + 👕 + stickers) delivered to you!

Submissions due on September 30th, 2023 at midnight UTC+0. For more information, check out our Launch Week 2023 blog post which includes details about all of the new features we launched in August as well as how to participate in the hackathon.

Learn more about the Xata Content Hackathon

Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you generate a "count and say" string. This had a lot of directions it could go in, and y'all didn't disappoint! Great job Saad, Miguel, Usman, Ben, Ten, Stephen, Leo, Karthic, Neil, Rob, Jonnie, Sreetam, Bhavesh, Andrew, and Clifford!

This week's question:
Given an array of integers and a number k (where k is guaranteed to be less than the array's length), return a subarray of length k with the minimum possible sum. Maintain the order of the original array!

Example:

> minSubs([1,3,20,4,8,9,11], 3)
> [4,8,9]

> minSubs([4,4,4,4,8], 2)
> [4,4]

Cool things from around the internet

Electrical noise stimulation enhances math learning skills
LEGO 3-axis Styrofoam Cutter
Hyperaurea album
Keychron Q3 with GSA Retro High-light ABS Keycaps

Joke

Why didn't the number 4 get into the cool club? Because they're 2 square!

That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and go the heck to sleep!

Special thanks to Gabor, IceSloth, Ezell, Ximena, Sebastián, Ben, Sema, Kinetic Labs, Kara, and Carmina for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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