🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #175

Cheers to Monday! New week, new adventures!

#OpenAI - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is seeking ideas to shake up OpenAI in 2025, amidst a very public spat with Elon Musk - wonder what Musk did to get under his skin, because he’s asking for feedback in Elon Musk’s den - i.e. on X itself!

#StartUpIndia - Amazon is eating startups for breakfast, literally. This founder thought they had a sweet deal, but Amazon just copied their business and put them out of commission. Moral of the story: build your own brand and store, or you'll get cannibalized by the big dogs.

#Windows11 - A new bug in Windows 11 affects USB and CD installers made with October and November release patches. The bug may be relevant to professional users who set up PCs within business or education environments. That’s right - the bug comes along with the Windows 11 installation - and prevents any further security updates!

Meta Adds Displays To Ray-ban Smart Glasses
Meta partnered with Ray-Ban to release smart glasses and now they're planning to add small displays to them by 2025, which will show notifications and virtual assistant responses. They're also working on a more advanced AR glasses called Orion, but that's still years away.

Bluesky - Introduced Trending Topics feature, showcasing top viral content on the platform in a centralized section.

One UI - Samsung’s One UI adds option to toggle off "Super HDR" for system-wide control over HDR content brightness.

Air | Live reload for Golang apps

Authortrail | See all the files you have ever touched in a Git repo

Finding A Mentor In Tech
The article emphasizes the importance of mentorship for professional growth in the tech industry. For software engineers, finding a mentor can be as simple as approaching a colleague or supervisor for guidance. For engineering leaders, paid coaching may be a viable option. Online resources and communities can also provide opportunities for mentorship and learning.

Effective Project Updates
Sending progress updates to stakeholders, investors, or teams? Follow these 15 tips to convey trust, provide value, and showcase your project's progress, such as adding a TL;DR, engineering pleasant surprises, and acknowledging changes.

Flawed Tech Interviews: Why Live Coding Exercises Fail To Capture True Engineering Skill
Live coding interviews, used by many companies, have several flaws that can exclude talented individuals, as they don't reflect daily engineering work and prioritize LeetCode-style problems and Big-O complexity analysis over real-world experience, disproportionately affecting senior developers and those without a theoretical computer science background.