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Hey friends!

I hope your week was a good one! I personally went to the movies for the first time since the pandemic started and saw Everything Everywhere All at Once. It was great! Let’s boogie.

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Web links of the week

Web color is still broken
Building a WebAssembly-powered serverless platform
Ember 4.3 Released
Building a Terminal Wordle Game with React Ink

Something that interested me this week

The Devs For Ukraine conference is this week! Monday and Tuesday starting at 4pm UTC (11am Central Time, 9am Pacific Time), we’ll have a set of amazing speakers all joining in to benefit some great organizations. This week was very full of preparing last minute details for the event, and we’re so excited to see you there. Follow us on Twitch to get notified of when the event will go live, and the videos will also be up later!

I’m so proud of our team putting this together. It was a very speedy group effort to pull together such a lineup in a month, but we did it and have raised about… $80k from the time I wrote this newsletter! Our original goal was $15k and we’re hoping for $100k by the end of the event. Whether you donate, participate, or share, thank you for checking us out!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you find a subarray with the largest sum in an array. I loved seeing all the unique responses to this one! Awesome job Andrew, Dan, Binh, Dani, Abdulrahman, Kamil, Kev, Rob, Seth, Will, Claude, Amine, Conor, Liam, Mark, Samuel, Leyan, Steven, Rafael, Giancarlo, Brad, Joseph, Nischal, Tyson, Giovanni, Gülşah, Ten, Les, and Augustin!

This week’s question:
Given an array of intervals, merge the overlapping intervals, and return an array of the resulting intervals.

Example:

$ mergeIntervals([[1,4],[2,6],[8,10],[15,20]])
$ [[1,6],[8,10],[15,20]]

$ mergeIntervals([[1,2],[2,7]])
$ [[1,7]]

Cool things from around the internet

NASA Audio and Ringtones
An LED-filled desk: keyboard & macropad with 3D printed keycaps!
Terms of Service; Didn’t Read
The Secret Life of Components

Joke

Why don’t large cats like to play games?
Because there’s too many cheetahs!

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

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

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