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Issue #361: "Creativity takes courage." - Henri Matisse

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Hola!

I hope you had a good week! Mine started slow and then got wildly busy, which sounds like I procrastinated… but I promise I didn’t!! I was good!!

Anyway, let’s read.

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The Magic of Clip Path
WebAuthn: Enhancing Security with Minimal Effort
Entering text in the terminal is complicated
How Keyboard Navigation Works in a CSS Game


Something that interested me this week

It was absolutely LOVELY seeing your responses last week in the “getting to know you” form! There were so many and I did read all of them, but replying to all of them (I think around a thousand of you responded, as of today) is… a challenge. But just know that I loved it, ha! I wrote down a bunch of your book recommendations and I appreciate you so much for being here.

Also, a podcast I recorded a few weeks ago just came out, if you’d like to take a listen to the episode! It’s a casual “fireside chat”-style interview where we talk about AI, the job market, web development, and mooore.


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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you determine if you could plant some flowers. Your answers were blooming Claude, Amine, Miguel, Saad, Muhammad, Max, Gu, Nayeem, Ricardo, Ten, Theresa, Mazen, epochDVKHN, Charles, and John!

This week’s question:
Given an integer array nums, return the length of the longest increasing subsequence.

Example:

> increasingSubsequence([10, 9, 2, 3, 7, 101, 18])
> 4

> increasingSubsequence([4, 4, 4, 4, 3])
> 1

(you can submit your answers by replying to this email with a link to your solution, or share on LinkedIn, Twitter, Mastodon, or Bluesky)


Cool things from around the internet

Why do some languages have more words than others?
littol Keyboard with DSA Milkshake
Why Bridges Don’t Sink
Beat Basics


Joke

My spouse is super upset when I tell him to put his clothes in the closet.
He has hanger management issues!


That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think!

Special thanks to IceSloth, Ezell, Sebastián, Ben, Kinetic Labs, and Faisal for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!

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