📒 "Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine." - Whoopi Goldberg

Hellllloooo!

I hope your week was a good one! Mine was a bit of a roller coaster, but we made it through. Let’s leeeearn!

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Web links of the week

Dialogs, modality and popovers seem similar. How are they different?
Findings from the Jamstack Community Survey 2022
Fine-tuning DevOps for People over Perfection
Markdown, Asciidoc, or reStructuredText - a tale of docs-as-code

Something that interested me this week

Between the U.S. elections, work stuff, seeing folks get laid off (and get new jobs!), shipping some things, traveling… wow it was a busy week!

Highlights:

• I traveled to Montreal to hang out with some internet friends for the first time, who were all just as lovely as I hoped! <3
• The latest Dev Morning Show (at night) episode is out, featuring Christina Zhu!
• My free email course for learning how to build a mechanical keyboard is finally (finally!) shipped and available to you!
• I finished building the Contenda website!
• I played the game Ark Nova for the first time, and it was really fun!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you return anti-divisors! This was a tricky one (I think many of us learned that anti-divisors exist), but y’all did great! Awesome work Tamás, Andy, Will, Michell, Amine, Thomas, Max, Neriya, Jun, Saad, Ten, and Cedric!

This week’s question (thanks to Will for sharing it):
Given a list of strings arr, and a max size n, return a new list where the strings (from left to right) are joined together with a space, so that each new string is less than or equal to the max size.

Examples:

> combineStrings(["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g"], 5)
> ["a b c", "d e f", "g"]

> combineStrings(["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g"], 12)
> ["a b c d e f", "g"]

> combineStrings(["alpha", "beta", "gamma", "delta", "epsilon"], 20)
> ["alpha beta gamma", "delta epsilon"]

Cool things from around the internet

Wycliffe Gordon plays Swing that Music
Building an e-ink weather display for our home
LZ erGhost with SP SA Dualshots
Daily meditation may work as well as a popular drug to calm anxiety, study finds

Joke

Why do fish live in salt water?
Because pepper water would make them sneeze!

That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and cut your nails!

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