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🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #336
Daily dispatches from the world of technology.
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Geek Gossip
#DialUpInternet - Remember Dial up internet? That 56kbps internet speed back in the day? That distinct connection sound it would make when it tried to connect to the internet? Nostalgia! Anyway - AOL, (some could say it’s the BSNL of USA), was still having dial up plans! They have now decided to discontinue it. An era comes to an end.
Latest Updates
Github's Co-founder Thomas Dohmke Steps Down
Thomas Dohmke, co-founder and CEO of GitHub, is leaving the company after over a decade and will be replaced by a new leader to oversee the platform's growth. Github will no longer operate as a separate entity and will now be part of Microsoft's CoreAI organization.
Reddit Places New Restrictions On Internet Archive's Wayback Machine
Reddit is cracking down on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. The archive site will only be able to crawl Reddit's homepage. The move is the latest step Reddit has taken on its quest to limit AI companies' access to its data.
Changelog
WhatsApp - Adds support for verified Instagram profile links, allowing users to add a verification badge next to their Instagram link to confirm ownership and reduce the risk of impersonation.
OneNote - Paste as text only feature now available, allowing users to preserve plain text formatting when copying and pasting content.
Reddit - Blocks Internet Archive's Wayback Machine from indexing most of its content to prevent AI companies from scraping data.
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
Ov | Feature-rich terminal-based text viewer. It is a so-called terminal pager.
Dependency Cruiser | Validate and visualize dependencies. Your rules. JavaScript, TypeScript, CoffeeScript. ES6, CommonJS, AMD.
Screen Coder | ScreenCoder — Turn any UI screenshot into clean, editable HTML/CSS with full control. Fast, accurate, and easy to customize.
In Case You Missed It
🎁 We now have a dedicated page to list all events. We will be updating this page EVERY WEEK. We will of course be publishing new (and coming-soon) events in this section but for a comprehensive list of events, check the link(s) below:
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SuperHack 2025 is a global AI hackathon for developers, innovators, and AI engineers. The event, powered by SuperOps in association with AWS, challenges participants to build real-world AI solutions to solve IT challenges. Winners can launch their solutions on the SuperOps Agent Marketplace. More details here.
Job Board
Data Scientist @ SureBright (YCombinator S24) (Onsite - Gurgaon)
✨Experience : 3+ years (Machine Learning | Data Analysis)
💰Expected Salary : ₹20L – ₹40L / year
Web Framework Developer @ 100ms (Onsite - Bengaluru)
✨Experience : 2+ years (Javascript | Realtime | API | SDK)
💰Expected Salary : ₹25L – ₹60L / year
Software Engineer, Frontend @ hify (Onsite - Mumbai)
✨Experience : 6+ years (Android | iOS | React Native)
💰Expected Salary : ₹40L – ₹50L / year
Lead Frontend Engineer @ Avoma (Onsite - Pune)
✨Experience : 8+ years (React.js | Redux | TailwindCSS)
💰Expected Salary : ₹37L – ₹45L / year
Miscellaneous
The Flawed World Of Tech Interviews
This post is targeted at companies and engineering managers. It explores why hiring is hard, how existing approaches fail, and what a better approach could look like.
Designing With AI: Practical Techniques For Product Design
This article will teach you about the importance of advanced prompting in AI, its benefits, and practical techniques for product design, including how to work with AI strengths while managing its weaknesses, and how to use iterative and structured processes to refine inputs and guide AI towards more useful results.
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