🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #133

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#TheEnterpriseBattle - Salesforce CEO seems liked they want to pick up a fight - with Microsoft. A tweet from them attacked Microsoft’s AI companion - CoPilot. They said CoPilot was inaccurate, leaking corporate data, and forcing customers to build their own LLMs.

#GooglersUseAi - Google’s CEO reported that a quarter of their new code has been generated by AI. Of course, a company with deep investments in the AI domain would report that.

#GoogleFined - A Russian court fined Google for unauthorized blocking of some media stations - the fine? $2.5 Decillion - Much much much more than a billion dollars!

Apple Shifts iPhone 17 Production To India
Apple is already manufacturing the base iPhone 17 models in India, a first-time move, to diversify its supply chain and reduce dependence on China. The initial manufacturing process has started at a Foxconn factory in Bengaluru, India, and the base model has passed the early development stage.

Reddit Achieves Profitability For The First Time
Reddit, a social news and discussion website, turned a profit for the first time, reporting a profit of $29.9 million and $348.4 million in revenue, a 68% increase year over year. Reddit's revenue growth is largely driven by its advertising business, with users growing to 97.2 million daily, a 47% increase from last year!

GitHub Revolutionizes App Creation With Natural Language
GitHub just launched GitHub Spark, a new experiment that allows users to build small web apps using only natural language. Simply describe what you want your app to do, and GitHub Spark will create a prototype for you.

The Much-Awaited M4 Macbook Pro Is Finally Here!
Apple has unveiled its refreshed MacBook Pro lineup with a powerful M4 family of chips, available for pre-order starting today, with shipping starting as early as November 8.

Google's Financial Report: Warning Signs And Milestones
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has announced its Q3 2024 financial report, with enormous growth in its ad business. The company's revenue was $88.25 billion, with a net income of $26.3 billion. CEO Sundar Pichai warned that the Department of Justice's proposed remedies for Google's monopolistic behavior could impact US leadership in the global tech market.

Swiggy Instamart - Introduces Shopping List Feature Allowing Users to Create and Manage Their Grocery Lists Seamlessly. You can now write your shopping list down and use your camera to take a photo of it and upload to Swiggy - and it will list out the items from that list for you to select and purchase.

Google Chrome - Chrome adds Performance issue alerts to notify users of resource-intensive tabs and updates Memory Saver mode with new settings.

Node.js - Node.js 22.x transitions into Long Term Support (LTS) with the codename 'Jod'.

GitHub Copilot - Supports Command Suggestions and Explanations in Windows Terminal. You can now get auto complete and suggestions for your commands in the terminal.

ChatGPT - You can now search through your past chats with ChatGPT and quickly bring it up to continue chatting.

Hugging Face Transformers.js v3 - Support for WebGPU Acceleration, New Quantization Formats, and More!

Rwf | Comprehensive framework for building web applications in Rust.

Route List | Beautifully shows Express/Koa/Hapi/Fastify routes in CLI.

Flutter Has Been Forked
The Flutter team, despite its massive community of 1 million developers, is understaffed with only 50 people, leading to a labor shortage and slow bug fixes. Some prominent contributors are now creating a fork, called Flock, to accelerate development and expand available labor.

Setting Expectations For Software Engineers
Managers face challenges aligning expectations with new joiners. The author drilled down to find a simple definition: a good engineer is someone you trust to deliver quality solutions while working with the team, repeatedly.

HTML Forms: The Nuance Of Imperative APIs
HTML Forms have powerful validation mechanisms, but they are heavily underused. However, its imperative design leads to cumbersome code, making it a less appealing option.