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🗓️ This Week The weather has finally become more comfortable here in Japan, and I've been feeling excited to get outside🍂. Recently, I took a spontaneous day trip to a small island and enjoyed the beautiful scenery filled with cosmos and other autumn flowers🌸. On the development side, I finished reviewing the tests for Chord Tone Practice and followed the backend calculations step by step🎸. I…

This week in Japan, the weather improved, prompting a day trip to a nearby island and appreciation of autumn flowers and cosmos. Developers finished reviewing tests for Chord Tone Practice functionality and explored Swift's collection operations, including bitmask techniques for generating subsets. On the security front, they completed a TryHackMe module on AI System Reconnaissance, learning to identify AI-related activities in logs.

Key takeaways covered Swift's collection transformations, bitwise operations, and testing techniques like #expect and #require for validating results.

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