It's Friday! Time to celebrate the small victories!
Geek Gossip
No gossip for the day.
Latest Updates
Tech Giant Embroiled In Sex Harassment Scandal
TATA Consultancy Services, a leading Indian IT company, is facing allegations of sexual harassment and religious coercion by undercover police in Nashik.
Canva Revolutionizes Design With AI-powered Canva AI 2.0
Canva, a popular graphic design platform, has just introduced Canva AI 2.0, a significant upgrade that transforms the way teams create and collaborate on designs. This new AI-powered tool allows users to go from idea to published work in one place, with features like conversational design, agentic editing, and intelligent workflows that make design easier and more efficient.
Changelog
Opera - Connects ChatGPT and Claude to the browser via Browser Connector, a feature that utilizes the MCP standard to provide AI tools with real-time context of open tabs and active content.
Claude Opus 4.7 - Advanced Software Engineering with Improved Vision, Cybersecurity Safeguards, and Enhanced Capabilities for Coding and Long-Running Tasks.
YouTube - You can now turn off shorts from showing up in your feed and search results.
Trending Projects / Code Repositories
Jai | Jail your AI agent. An ultra lightweight jail (container) for AI CLIs on modern linux
Markdown UI | An open standard for rendering interactive widgets in plain Markdown.
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:
This link is EXCLUSIVELY accessible by subscribers of Heap Heap Hurray!
The Back to the Metadata (OpenMetadata Hackathon) is an online hackathon where participants build tools and solutions for data discovery, observability, governance, and metadata management using the OpenMetadata platform, including AI agents, connectors, and developer tooling. The total prize pool is USD 7,000+ in cash and rewards. Register here.
Miscellaneous
Github: The Uphill Climb Of Making Diff Lines Performant
GitHub optimizes React-based pull request experience for faster rendering and reduced memory consumption, addressing performance issues in large pull requests with targeted strategies and simplification of React components.
The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code
Quickly diagnose codebase issues with 5 simple Git commands: identify high-churn files, contributor risk, bug clusters, project momentum, and firefighting patterns.
Attention Subscribers
Every two weeks, on Friday at 7 PM IST, we distribute a “BONUS EDITION” featuring highly valuable links. These special editions are exclusively sent to our most dedicated and engaged subscribers. To ensure you receive these editions, please take the following actions:
1. Regularly open our emails. We track email open rates to identify our most active subscribers.
2. Engage with the links in our newsletter. While we provide concise summaries, your engagement is equally important.
Your active participation ensures you continue to receive these exclusive benefits. Thank you for your ongoing support and engagement.
If you are seeing the bonus edition posts in your SPAM folder, please do us a favour and mark it as NOT SPAM.
We believe in sharing great resources, and these newsletters are some good ones. They offer sharp, focused insights - especially around tech topics we might only touch on briefly.
If you're into cryptocurrency and blockchain, we recommend Cryptogram - it dives deep into the space, which we don’t often cover in detail.
For startup enthusiasts, Rustic Flute is a must-read, especially since we’ve noticed many of you love staying on top of the latest in the startup world.
