Good morning, it's Friday! Time to wrap up the week!
Geek Gossip
#Zomato - Get ready to be spammed even more now. Zomato (and even Swiggy) may soon share your mobile number with their partner restaurants. Privacy Policy - what’s that?
#YouTube - “I slid into her YouTube DMs” is going to be a thing now - because YT is trying to messaging happen. That’s right - a video platform wants people to message each other!
Latest Updates
Raise Financial Acquires Stratzy
Raise Financial, parent of online trading platform Dhan, has acquired algo-based investing startup Stratzy in a $4-4.5 million deal. Stratzy will continue to operate as an independent unit, offering trading tools to multiple brokerages and platforms. This acquisition will help Dhan strengthen its tech stack and expand automated investment offerings for retail traders, capitalizing on the growing interest in quant-driven trading products.
Changelog
OpenAI - Introduces GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, a new frontier agentic coding model with improved performance, token efficiency, and long-running capabilities.
Amazon Prime Video - AI-generated "Video Recaps" with synchronized narration, dialogue, and music now available in beta for select Prime Originals.
Google - New model of Nano Banana launched. Generate more accurate, context-rich visuals based on enhanced reasoning, world knowledge, and real-time information.
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
Continuous Claude | Run Claude Code in a continuous loop, autonomously creating PRs, waiting for checks, and merging
Parqeye | Peek inside Parquet files right from your terminal
Guts | Guts is a code generator that converts Golang types to Typescript. Useful for keeping types in sync between the front and backend.
In Case You Missed It
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Miscellaneous
Six Things I Bet You Didn't Know You Could Do With Chrome's Devtools
Discover useful features of the Devtools that will up your frontend programming skill.
"Just Javascript" Definitions
The concept of "just JavaScript" refers to code that works without custom transforms, allowing for normal refactors and no runtime surprises. However, TypeScript and JSX are exceptions as they're ubiquitous and supported by runtimes like Deno, Bun, and Node.
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