🍁 "The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops." - Kate Sheppard

cassidooNov 2, 2026

Hey friends!

Happy November! I hope you ended your October with a bang. Between GitHub Universe and Halloween, mine was particularly fun and busy this year.

Let's gooo!

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Web links of the week

Spreading Liquid with three.js
Taking Back CSS-Tricks
A select should tell you something
Design Systems Should Be Fast by Default

Something that interested me this week

Phew y'all, I was in San Francisco for a LONG time for GitHub Universe, and I'm so happy to be home! I did a little meta round-up vlog about it while also recapping my newsletter if you want to see some behind-the-scenes. It was a really good time podcasting and keynoting and building keyboards (which, btw, you can buy one of the exclusive kits if you want), and it was also so much work pulling everything together. I'm happy it happened. I'm happy it's over. Ha!

Halloween was a cute one, my three-year-old is finally old enough to trick-or-treat and understand what's going on, which was a blast! And, because Mariah Carey said so... I did indeed set up my Christmas tree today.

Also, if you're in the United States: make sure you vote this week!!

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Interview question of the week

Last week, I had you swap Halloween costumes! Y'all did a spooktacular job Ten, Paul, Kyle, Trey, Thulasi, Alison, Rhett, Amine, and the smarties in the Ruby Users Forum!

This week's question:
Given a chronological log of local "HH:MM" timestamps from the night daylight saving time ends, return the actual number of minutes between the first and last entries. The log contains a consecutive pair that reveals the clock’s one-hour rollback.

Examples:

elapsedMinutes(["00:50", "01:10", "01:50", "01:10", "02:10"]);
> 140

elapsedMinutes(["01:55", "01:05", "01:25", "01:40"]);
> 45

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Joke

What type of shoe do frogs wear?
Open-toad sandals.