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🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #301
Daily dispatches from the world of technology.
Happy Tuesday! Let's make today even better than yesterday!
Geek Gossip
#Apple-Intelligence - Apple maybe thinking about buying Perplexity AI to boost their AI game. They may have competition from Meta though, who are apparently eyeing the same. The move would help Apple develop an AI-based search engine. Such a deal would be the largest acquisition in Apple’s history.
#ChatGPT-v/s-Google - Google's still the queen of search, but ChatGPT's coming for the throne. It's still lagging behind, but as people get more comfy chatting with AI, it's getting closer.
Latest Updates
Karnataka Proposes 12-hour Workday For IT Sector
The state government just proposed a new law that would let IT companies make employees work 12 hours a day, instead of the current 10 hours. This could be bad news for junior workers and contract employees, who might lose their jobs or have to work longer hours.
Changelog
Windows 11 - Added support for exporting animated GIF recordings in the Snipping Tool utility, allowing users to export screen recordings up to 30 seconds long.
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
Motia | Unified Backend Framework for APIs, Events, and AI Agents
Vue Equipment | Frontend Toolkit, Free and Open Source
Mosh | Mobile Shell
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Job Board
Principal Java Engineer @ Kanerika Software (Onsite - Hyderabad)
✨Experience : 10+ years (Java | Java J2EE)
💰Expected Salary : ₹22L – ₹40L / year
Sr. Software Engineer - Node.js @ Punditry tech labs (Remote)
✨Experience : 7+ years (Javascript | noSQL | Node.js | Express.js | AWS)
💰Expected Salary : ₹30L – ₹35L / year
Software Engineer @ CareerNet Technologies (Onsite - Bengaluru)
✨Experience : 1+ years (TypeScript | React.js)
💰Expected Salary : ₹45L – ₹50L / year
Miscellaneous
Now Might Be The Best Time To Learn Software Development
A humorous take on the impact of AI on software development, with the author arguing that LLMs are like combine harvesters, making development more efficient, but not replacing human developers. Instead, AI grants wishes, but devs discover and solve the complex social problems that come with building software."
View Transitions 101
Learn the basics of view transitions, how to implement them in vanilla JavaScript, and the challenges that come with it, including browser support, duplicate element errors, and asynchronous updates, as well as how React solves these problems with its own view transition implementation.
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