Issue #284: "The best prophet of the future is the past." - Lord Byron
Hey friends!
I hope you had a great week! Mine was pretty packed, but I got to eat some great food for Lunar New Year and Chicago’s Restaurant Week, so I’ve got no complaints here.
Onwards!
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Web links of the week
6 Common SVG Fails (and How to Fix Them)
Supabase Auth Tutorial with React
Using :is() in complex selectors selects more than you might initially think
Building an accessible theme picker with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Something that interested me this week
This week was a bit of a catch-up week after my company’s offsite, and I ended up speaking on 4 different podcasts, a Twitter Space, the Visual Studio Code livestream, my own livestream, and launched the latest episode of The Dev Morning Show (at night) featuring Anjana Vakil!
Phew. It was a bit of a lesson in scheduling things in the future, but it was fun talking to so many folks!
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Interview question of the week
Last week, I had you make a “spin the wheel” game. Y’all had fun with this one, it was a great time looking through submissions! Awesome job Miguel, Dan, Brian, Tamas, Elizabeth, Chinar, Binh, Max, Ángel, Ten, and Daniel!
This week’s question:
You are given a list of positive integers which represents some range of integers which has been truncated. Find the missing bits, insert ellipses to show that that part has been truncated, and print it. If the consecutive values differ by exactly two, then insert the missing value.
Examples:
> missingBits([1,2,3,4,20,21,22,23])
> "[1,2,3,4,...,20,21,22,23]"
> missingBits([1,2,3,5,6])
> "[1,2,3,4,5,6]"
> missingBits([1,3,20,27])
> "[1,2,3,...,20,...,27]"Cool things from around the internet
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Four Thousand Weeks
Joke
I adopted my dog from a blacksmith.
As soon as we got home, she made a bolt for the door!
That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and hydrate!
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