🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #362

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#MadhyaPradeshHighCourt - The High Court of the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh has stopped live-streaming hearings to protect local lawyers from ridicule on social media. The state judiciary streamed many criminal cases live online, but a chap named Arihant Tiwari found the practice odious. The court hasn't reached a final decision but did order its Registry to stop live streaming bench hearings and criminal cases until it resolves the matter.

#LiquidGlass - iOS 26 with its Liquid Glass update is rolling out to all devices - but there’s a disclaimer from Apple - that this update may worsen your iPhone’s battery life. That’s right - Apple admits that new features sometimes consume more power. The company promises that the impact on performance and battery life should be small.

Paypal Introduces Personalized Payment Links
PayPal is introducing a new way for people to send money to one another through peer-to-peer (p2p) payments made via personalized, one-time links. The system, called PayPal Links, complements the company’s existing feature called PayPal Me, which will continue to exist as a way to share your profile information.

WhatsApp - Unified Calling System for Group Chats with Single Menu to Initiate Voice or Video Calls.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat - Unified AI chat experience is now available across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote, enabling users to access Copilot assistance directly within their apps.

OpenAI Codex - GPT-5-Codex, a version of GPT-5 optimized for agentic software engineering, now available for cloud tasks and code review.

YouTube - AI-powered automated video editing tool for creating compelling first drafts with music, transitions, and voiceover.

Google Meet - Add Google Meet links to location field on outgoing invites and automatically detect Meet links on incoming invites.

Free Design Resources - Unlock a treasure trove of free design assets! This curated Google Sheet is your ultimate resource for free fonts, stock images, icons, and more. A must-have for designers and creators looking to elevate their projects without breaking the bank.

No Cost / Low Cost Vibe Coding - A cost-efficient AI workflow for coding: using multiple free-tier AI model tabs in browser, curating focused context for prompts, a GUI tool (“AI Code Prep”) to gather relevant files (skip noisy ones), pasting into different AIs, reviewing & iterating, then automating edits via agents like Cline.

CSS Questions - A curated platform of real-world CSS problems & their solutions, featuring clear Q&A style entries. Great for anyone wanting to quickly lookup fixes for layout quirks, browser compatibility, flexbox/grid puzzles, and styling gotchas. Perfect for sharpening CSS skills or hunting down elusive bugs.

Finally Safe Array Methods In Javascript
In JavaScript, traditional methods like .sort() .reverse() and .splice() mutate the array they’re called on. This can lead to unexpected behavior when updating state, because mutating arrays directly doesn’t trigger re-renders. In React, immutability is key for triggering state updates and preserving predictability. ES2023 introduces non-mutating array methods: toSorted(), toReversed(), and toSpliced() to avoid bugs in React and other apps with shared state.

UX Strategies For Real Time Dashboards
Karan Rawal explores strategic UX patterns that shorten time-to-decision. Real-time dashboards are now critical decision-making tools in industries like logistics, manufacturing, finance, and healthcare. But many of them fail to help users make timely and confident decisions.

Becoming The Person Who Does The Thing
A software developer's mindset can shift with new experiences and perspectives, much like a changing operating system. Beliefs about the world and one's role in it can be transformed through small, daily actions, like starting a workout routine, and new identities can emerge, shaping our approach to life and work.