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Helllooo!

I hope you had a good week. Mine was busy, as usual, but it felt good and productive. For you Americans out there, I hope you enjoy the long weekend. Let’s surf!

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Web links of the week

Stop The Screen Going To Sleep With JavaScript
Checkbox Accent Color Pixel Art
Fresh 1.0
Defensive CSS

Something that interested me this week

This week, I gave my first in-person talk since the start of the pandemic! It was at a meetup in Chicago, and I’ve been feeling all warm and fuzzy about it ever since.

I don’t think I realized how much I missed having an audience in person that reacts to what you’re saying, being able to adjust when they look confused or nod along, and chatting with them afterwards more deeply. I reused and combined a couple of older talks (here and here) and I just had so much fun.

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The third annual Jamstack Community Survey is live and we’d like to hear from you!

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We’ll of course be sharing this year’s results with the community for free online, and at our Jamstack conference later this year.

Speaking of Jamstack Conf - we will be live Nov 7-8, 2022 in San Francisco and online. Save the date at JamstackConf.com

Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you find the longest word that was the subsequence of a set. This one was sneakily tricky! Great work Andrew, Robin, Les, Jack, Will, Wayne, Charles, Ten, Leyan, Saad, Ben, Becker, Amine, Miguel, Andros, Zoé, Augustin, Olumide, Don, Divyansh, Hristiyan, Nicole, and Patricio!

This week’s question:
The game Rummikub has 106 tiles: 8 sets numbered 1-13, colored red, blue, black, and yellow, and two (2) “wildcard” tiles.
Write two functions: one that creates a new player’s tray of 14 tiles (repetitions allowed), and one that returns the valid sets from a given tray. A set can be either 3 or 4 tiles of the same number (but all different colors), or it can be a “run” (which is three or more consecutive numbers all in the same color). The rules for Rummikub are here if you need more clarification!

Cool things from around the internet

A Turning Point For Europe: The Siege of Malta 1565
The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story
Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen) - Postmodern Jukebox Cover
Meridian R2 with IFK Comfy

Joke

I really love how the Earth rotates on its axis.
It really makes my day!

That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and reach out to the ones you care about!

Special thanks to Gabor, Stephen, IceSloth, Alaska, Josh, Conor, Ezell, Karthic, Ximena, Paige, Zev, Sebastián, Ben, Sema, and Kinetic Labs for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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