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#Highest-Paid-IT-CEO - Guess which CEO of an Indian IT company gets paid the highest among all?

#PerplexityScandal - Cloudflare says Perplexity is using “stealth” crawlers to access certain websites. The AI search startup got caught last year barging past paywalls and ignoring sites’ robots.txt files. Cloudflare has since delisted the startup as a verified bot and rolled out methods to block its ‘stealth crawling'.

#Sassy-Google - Google launched a cheeky new advertisement for their upcoming Pixel 10, throwing shade at Apple’s “coming soon” features. Don’t miss this one!

Swiggy Launches Deskeats For Officegoers
Online food delivery platform Swiggy has launched DeskEats for officegoers across over 7,000 workplaces, including tech parks, corporate hubs, and business centres.DeskEats currently caters to 30 cities, including Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurugram, Pune, and Kolkata.

WhatsApp - Introduces new safety features to detect and prevent scams in group and individual chats.

Character[dot]AI - Added a social feed to its mobile app, allowing users to share AI-generated content, interact with others' avatars, and create videos using AvatarFX model.

uBlock Origin Lite - Released on the App Store for iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices, leveraging the Safari browser with Manifest V3 compliance.

ChatGPT - Reminders to take breaks after prolonged conversations.

Pattern Craft - A 19yr old developer from India went viral for their creation, now sponsored by Nextjs’s Vercel. The website showcases a curated collection of over 100 modern, handcrafted CSS background patterns and gradients. Users can preview designs live, copy Tailwind‑ and CSS‑compatible code snippets with one click, and seamlessly integrate stunning visuals into websites or apps. Ideal for developers and designers seeking clean, responsive pattern solutions.

Rate My Prompt - A vibrant community‑driven platform for sharing, rating, and improving AI prompts used with ChatGPT, Claude, GPT‑4 and more. Prompts are evaluated by both automated AI scoring and human feedback. Ideal for prompt engineers, content creators, and AI enthusiasts looking to discover standout examples or refine their own prompt‑crafting skills.

DesignTokens FYI - This offers a clear, visual glossary of design token terminology. Ideal for designers and developers, it simplifies complex concepts with interactive examples, helping teams build scalable design systems faster.

Write React Hooks From Scratch
This article provides an in-depth explanation of how React Hooks work internally, focusing on how they store state in an array. It discusses the limitations of React Hooks and how they differ from traditional JavaScript functions, and uses a naive implementation of an array-based hook storage system to illustrate the concept. The article also touches on the role of the Virtual DOM (VDOM) in persisting data in a component and how React uses a linked list to store Hook state.

Claude[dot]md Simplified
The author shares how he reduced his Claude configuration file from hundreds of lines to 13 by moving project context into modular, tool-agnostic READMEs and enforcing constraints via environment tools like linters and tests. This supports better AI onboarding and leverages coding agents’ OODA loops for quality, reliable code generation.

Engineering Leaders
Most engineering managers wait for things to happen. They wait for PMs. Wait for the roadmap, the designers, the feedback. They also wait for problems to blow up. The top 1% don’t wait. They see what needs to happen and make it happen, even when it’s not their job.