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🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #360
Daily dispatches from the world of technology.
Mondays are for dreams - let's start chasing them!
Geek Gossip
#Antitrust - Microsoft managed to avoid getting heavily fined by the EU by removing Teams form its Office suite - after Slack filed an antitrust complaint against them.
Latest Updates
MIC Electronics Limited Partners With TOP2 To Boost India's Semiconductor Capacity
MIC Electronics Limited has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Singapore-based VC firm TOP2 Pte Ltd to boost India’s semiconductor manufacturing capacity. India currently meets most of its semiconductor demand through imports, making access to established wafer lines a quicker and cost-effective option.
Announcing OpenAI Grove
Startup founders - here’s one for you. OpenAI is launching a new program called Grove, aimed at individuals who are early in their company-building journey. The program offers a talent network, co-building with OpenAI researchers, and resources to accelerate the journey of participants. The first cohort will consist of around 15 participants, and applications are due by September 24th.
Changelog
Gmail - Streamlined Purchase and Delivery Tracking with New "Purchases" View
Visual Studio Code - Introduces auto model selection in chat feature, auto model switching, improved security measures, and numerous productivity and user experience improvements.
Microsoft Teams - Link Protection feature now scans messages for potentially malicious URLs, displaying warnings to users and administrators.
Snapchat - Introduces Infinite Retention and Group Streaks, allowing users to save chat history and maintain collective streaks with friends.
Windows 11 - You can now test your internet speed from the system tray’s context menu.
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
Dotter | A dotfile manager and templater written in rust
Rooks | Collection of awesome react hooks
Port Note | Stop juggling spreadsheets and guessing which service uses which port - PortNote gives you a clear, organized view of your entire port landscape.
In Case You Missed It
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Miscellaneous
Optimizing Third-party Scripts For Web Performance
Third-party scripts are both a blessing and a curse. They power analytics, personalization, ads, chat widgets, A/B testing, and countless other features that are hard to build from scratch. But they also come at a cost: slowing down your site, blocking rendering, and making users wait. One modern approach is to offload scripts into web workers.
100+ CSS Features From The Past 5 years
This webpage provides a comprehensive list of CSS concepts, including selectors, pseudo-elements, language, @ rules, color, functions, properties, values, and units. It also covers various units such as relative, root relative, absolute, viewport, and container query units. The list is a great resource for web developers looking to improve their CSS skills and stay up-to-date with the latest developments in the field.
Control And Monetize Your Content With The RSL Standard
The RSL Standard is an open, XML-based document format for defining machine-readable content licensing and usage terms for digital assets. It's designed to let publishers, authors, and application developers to easily define licensing terms so that Users and Bots can use digital assets for AI training, web search, and other applications.
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