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BMT-Holiday API: The Most Comprehensive Holiday Data You'll Need For Any Application
8+ hour, 30+ min ago (15+ words) " The Problem Let's face it, most holiday APIs are incomplete, expensive, or just plain. .....
# " Verifying an Alien Dictionary (Leet Code 953)
1+ week, 1+ day ago (248+ words) Imagine you're interviewing on another planet. " Your task is to determine whether a list of words is sorted according to the alien alphabet. The first differing characters are: Since h < l in the alien language, the words are correctly ordered....
Word Scrambling as a Learning Mechanic: Tools, Theory, and Classroom Applications
1+ week, 2+ day ago (188+ words) Word scrambling is a deceptively simple mechanic. Rearrange the letters of a word, ask someone to restore the original " that's the entire game loop. But underneath that simplicity is a cognitive process that language researchers find genuinely interesting, and that…...
" DAY 5: Dictionaries
2+ week, 3+ day ago (284+ words) Welcome back, Pythonistas! " For the last two days, we've been using indices like 0, 1, and 2 to grab items out of our lists and tuples. But let's be real'if you're building an RPG game and want to find a character's "stamina", nobody…...
I Hit the 1, 232-Byte Wall So You Don't Have To
4+ week, 1+ day ago (22+ words) I was building a batch transfer tool. Send SOL to 20 recipients in one transaction. Simple, .. . Tagged with 100daysofsolana, webdev, solanadev, mlh....
Why Country/State/City Pickers Are Weirdly Hard
1+ mon, 22+ hour ago (25+ words) What looks like three simple dropdowns quickly turns into caching, async state management, accessibility, and constantly changing location data. Tagged with opensource, react, frontend, devtools....
Great Little Software: Theo & Vangogh
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (317+ words) Theodorus van Gogh (1 May 1857 " 25 January 1891) was a Dutch art dealer and the younger brother of. .. Tagged with showdev, opensource, webdev....
I Built a Random Word Generator" Then Realized How Often People Get Stuck
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (230+ words) It was something smaller. And honestly" more annoying. I'd sit there trying to: And suddenly my brain would go completely blank. Not because I had no ideas. Starting is weirdly hard. Sometimes all you need is: And suddenly your brain…...
Leet Code 819: Most Common Word " Simple Explanation with Carry Logic (Java)
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (188+ words) Topics: Array, Math, Hash Table, String, Counting Given a string paragraph and a string array of the banned words banned, return the most frequent word that is not banned. It is guaranteed there is at least one word that is…...
26 Quizzes: What We've Learned About Which Results People Actually Share
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (472+ words) We launched 26 quizzes on quiz. thicket. sh. This week we added three new ones. I want to talk about what we've learned about quiz results and why people share them. Attachment Style Quiz " Secure, Anxious, Avoidant, or Disorganized. Classic attachment…...