Hey friends!
I hope you had a good week! It was a fun Pi Day and river dyeing weekend over here in Chicago.
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Web links of the week
Let the stagger experiments begin
The URL is a great place to store state in React
Make a ski game with LittleJS
Learn Zod So You Can Trust Your Data and Your Types
Something that interested me this week
This was a long week for me, y’all. I had a ton to do at work (got some videos and blogs publishing soon, keep an eye out on GitHub’s channels!) and I admit I was fighting off “pregnancy brain” with a lot of ups and downs. I’m at that point where I’m nervous about having a second kiddo, but also VERY ready to not be pregnant anymore. I wrote about that in more detail, and also about how I think we should be introducing more friction into our lives, rather than trying to smooth out everything forever.
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Interview question of the week
Last week, I had you get piano key intervals! Awesome job Jesper, Ten, Muhammad, Neha, Ian, Murtala, and Ricardo!
This week’s question:
Write a function scoreHand(cards) that calculates the total score of a Cribbage hand. The input is an array of 5 card strings (including the starter card), where each card is represented as rank+suit (e.g., “AH”, “10D”, “KS”). Here are the scoring rules:
- 15s: 2 points for each combination of cards summing to 15
- Pairs: 2 points for each pair of same-rank cards
- Runs: 1 point per card in a run of 3 or more consecutive ranks
Example:
> scoreHand(["7H", "8C", "9D", "JH", "KS"])
> 5
> scoreHand(["AH", "2C", "3D", "4S", "5H"])
> 7
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Cool things from around the internet
“Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI
Protagonist 60 Copper-PC with GMK Dandy Green keycaps
The teacher lies sometimes
A New Sudoku Layout With 81 Uniquely Shaped Cells
Joke
What do you call a gorilla wearing headphones?
Anything you’d like, it can’t hear you.
That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and think about new perspectives!
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