🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #136

Keep smiling - it's Tuesday and the week is yours!

#MacBookPro - Apple may update the design of the MacBook Pro in 2026. The computer was originally expected to arrive in 2025, but is experiencing delays. The new MacBook Pro may also come with a thinner design, a design Apple ditched when it introduced Apple Silicon to the Pro models.

#OneUI7 - Samsung has scheduled the Samsung Developer Conference (SDC) Korea on November 21. We expect One UI 7 Beta to potentially release on the same date. One UI team is going through a difficult phase right now, with OneUI 7 delayed until January 2025.

#Okta - Okta had a security hole could have allowed criminals to pass authentication using only a username. The bug could be exploited only when a series of conditions were met. One of those conditions - you had to have a username that was 52 characters or longer! Wonder if this finding was a result of an internal audit or a white hat hacker.

#Bing - Microsoft is desperately trying to attract users to its Bing search engine. It is offering a $1 million prize to users of its Bing search engine. The contest is open to anyone with a Microsoft account and a willingness to rely on Bing's search results (in select countries of course).

AWS Appoints New President In India And South Asia
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has appointed Sandeep Dutta as President of its operations in India and South Asia. Sandeep has over 20 years of experience from Accenture and will lead AWS's growth in the region.

Outlines | Structured Text Generation

Trench | Open-Source Analytics Infrastructure. A single production-ready Docker image built on ClickHouse, Kafka, and Node.js for tracking events, users, page views, and interactions.

State Of Frontend: 2024 Edition
The State of Frontend survey results reveal key trends and developer priorities in web development, highlighting shifts toward TypeScript adoption, a rise in server-side frameworks, and growing focus on accessibility and performance. With a strong preference for component-based architecture and cloud integrations, the findings suggest a demand for versatile tools that enhance developer productivity, modernize workflows, and improve user experience across devices.

Stable Browser Features October 2024
Discover some of the interesting features that have landed in stable and beta web browsers during October 2024.

A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries
In CSS, we have media queries - that allow us to conditionally set styling based on the width of the device on which the web page is being viewed. Well, we now have Container queries - conditionally set styles on elements based on the width of their parent container. Here’s an introduction to this feature.