🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #352

A proud moment for all Indians. Introducing Vikram, India’s first indigenously built 32-bit microprocessor. We have a long way to go - but this is a small step for India and a giant leap for our semiconductor industry.

With that to start - It's Wednesday! Time to reflect and keep moving forward!

#GoogleSecurity - Besides tech blogs, we even received messages on WhatsApp (we daresay WhatsApp University) that our GMail account password were compromised and we have to update our passwords. But Google is calling it a fake - that they have protections in place that are able to block majority of the phishing and malware attempts. Well, who do we believe now?!

India Deep Tech Investment Alliance Launches With $1B USD In Commitments
A coalition of US and Indian venture capital firms aims to boost private investment in deep tech sectors in India, building on the $12B USD Research Development and Innovation Scheme announced by the Indian government.

India’s Offgrid Raises $15M To Make Lithium Optional For Battery Storage
Incubated at IIT Kanpur, Offgrid Energy Labs has developed a zinc-bromine-based battery system as an alternative to lithium-ion technology. Called ZincGel, it delivers 80–90% of the energy efficiency of conventional lithium batteries, but at a significantly lower levelized cost of storage. The startup has raised $15 million in Series A funding to scale up its operations.

Microsoft - Retiring Microsoft Editor browser extensions for Chrome and Edge on October 31, 2025

Google Drive - Enhanced document scanning with improved page previews, UI layout, and page re-ordering capabilities.

Telegram - Turn your profile into a dynamic showcase with personal tunes, custom tab selection, exclusive chat themes from collectible gifts, gift upgrades, and new management via the Stickers Mini App.

Logo Ipsum - the “Lorem ipsum” for logos. Instantly fill empty logo spaces with sleek, professional SVG placeholder designs - copy or download in seconds. With 167 styles across categories like geometric, logogram, and illustrative, it accelerates mockups without missing a beat.

FliiipBook - a browser-based tool for drawing frame-by-frame GIF animations with features like onion-skinning, timeline controls (24 frames for 2-second loops), hotkeys, undo/redo, multiple brush sizes (1px–50px), textures, and one-click GIF export with unique filenames.

Shader Academy - a free, LeetCode-style platform for interactive shader learning, featuring over 100 WebGL challenges and newly added WebGPU compute challenges (like 30k-particle simulations and mesh manipulation), raymarching levels, detailed step-by-step explanations powered by LLMs, and multi-level difficulty tiers to grow your graphics chops efficiently.

Professional Development Is A Choice
A programmer reflects on 20 years of accidental growth and shares guidance for creating a personal development plan, highlighting the importance of intentional learning and career planning.

Vibe Coding Lets Anyone Start, But Few Know How to Finish
Vibe coding's rapid development pace hides structural issues, such as unclear specifications, inconsistent patterns, and a lack of debugging skills, making long-term maintenance and scaling difficult for non-technical users.

Direct Communication In Tight Organisations
Find out how empowering teams to communicate openly and directly, bypassing hierarchy results in boosting efficiency and autonomy, and reducing bureaucracy in modern software development.

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