🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #185

Monday is here - time to reset, refresh, and refocus!

#RestaurantWars - Zomato and Swiggy are in trouble with the National Restaurant Association of India, accused of betraying trust by launching private-label food products, using restaurant data, and exploiting their market dominance.

#MarkZuckerberg - Mark's taking shots at Apple, saying they're just "sitting on" the iPhone's success and haven't invented anything great in years. Sounds like someone's salty about that 30% cut Apple takes from the App Store!

#SoftwarePiracy - Apparently, some former Microsoft employee is spilling the tea - they're saying Microsoft doesn't care about Windows 11 piracy.

#UndergroundMarket - This hustler’s been referring strangers to his company for jobs and getting paid over $30,000 in bonuses. The 30-something tech worker has been using an app to connect with job seekers and vouching for them, boosting their chances of getting hired. Some companies have "courtesy referrals", but not all are aware of this underground market.

#Robotics - sts_3d, a teenage tech whiz, is in trouble with OpenAI for using their API to create a motorized sentry gun that can be controlled with ChatGPT-powered voice commands! Like, isn't that just a fancy remote control? Anyway, OpenAI shut them down, citing safety concerns.

Browserstack Redomiciles To India
BrowserStack is moving its holding unit to India from Dublin, Ireland. It is the second move in nine years for the Mumbai-based software firm. Such 'reverse flips' are complicated and include a major tax headache for investors.

Indian Rails Enters Hydrogen Train Market With World's Most Powerful 1,200 Hp Engine
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday that the 1,200-horsepower hydrogen-powered train engine developed by Indian Railways is the most powerful in the world. He further announced the first such train is expected to make a trial run in Haryana soon on the Jind-Sonipat route.

Swiggy Expands Into Professional Services With New App Pyng
Swiggy has launched a third app, Pyng, marking its expansion into the professional services marketplace. Pyng will enable professionals such as fitness coaches, yoga instructors, dance instructors, language learning, and education coaches to list their services on the platform.

Foxconn Halts New Work Rotations At Apple Iphone Factories In India
Foxconn is halting new work rotations for its Chinese employees at its Apple iPhone factories in India. Shipments of specialized manufacturing equipment meant for India have also been held up in China. The development is likely to disrupt iPhone assembly lines in the Foxconn factories in the southern states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

Amazon To Expand Ad Unit
Amazon is a tech giant, known for its online marketplace, cloud computing, and advertising business. Today, it announced that it's expanding its ad business by letting other retailers use its ad technology on their own websites, similar to how it expanded its cloud computing business (Amazon Web Services) to other companies, allowing them to reach more customers and increase profits, but also raising concerns about data access.

Raspberry Pi - Introduces a new 16GB RAM model, offering improved performance for resource-intensive workloads and multitasking.

X - Introduces "Parody Account" label to differentiate satire profiles from authentic accounts.

YouTube - Extended Shorts length to 3 minutes for all users, making any uploaded video under 3 minutes eligible to appear in the Shorts feed and qualify for recommendation.

Awesome Speaking | A collection of awesome resources about public speaking.

Bippy | Toolkit to hack into react internals. It pretends to be react devtools, giving you access to the fiber tree and other internals.

Joy Gen | Talking-face video editing

17 Tips From A Senior React Developer
You will learn about common mistakes to avoid in JavaScript, specifically with JSON parsing, and how to improve your coding skills from a senior React developer's perspective, including tips on error handling and debugging.

The Danger Of "Looks Good": How Lazy Feedback Hurts Your Team's Standards
Every time you say "looks good" about work that isn't actually good, your team's standards drop. Managers typically say "looks good" for one of two reasons: they care about quality but it's faster to fix the work themselves, or they don't prioritize quality, normalizing mediocrity in the name of efficiency. Instead, invest the time to train your team and give detailed feedback on specific areas for improvement. This will eventually make your life easier and energize your high performers.

Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) In Tech
In Engineering, quarterly OKRs can feel like a duplication of product planning. Marketing doesn’t complain about having to make OKRs. Marketing is closer to project work, while Engineering is product work.