🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #197

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#DeepSeek - Yesterday, China’s DeepSeek model took the AI world by storm, upsetting Nvidia and OpenAI’s plans with their new AI model. And now, reportedly their image generation models too are outperforming Dall-E!

#MetaWarRoom - Not just Nvidia or OpenAI, DeepSeek has the alarm bells ringing in Meta too. Meta is reportedly scrambling ‘war rooms’ of engineers to figure out how DeepSeek’s AI is beating everyone else at a fraction of the price

Zepto Moves Headquarters To India Ahead Of IPO
Zepto is a quick-commerce startup that delivers groceries, wellness products, and household goods within 10 minutes in urban areas, currently valued at $5 billion. They've moved their headquarters from Singapore to India, following other Indian startups like PhonePe and Groww, as the Indian IPO market has emerged as one of the world's strongest, with Zepto planning to file for an initial public offering later this year.

Microsoft Launches Open-source Document Database Platform
Microsoft just launched a new platform that's a bit of a game-changer. They're using open-source PostgreSQL and allowing users to build their own document database experience on top of it. They're also partnering with FerretDB, an existing open-source project, to make it easy for people to get started.

Bluesky - Introduced Video Tab feature, allowing users to view all posted videos in one place.

Meta - Introduces AI chatbot memory feature to provide more personalized recommendations and interactions based on user preferences and conversations.

iOS 18.3 - New iOS is now generally available. Adds Visual Intelligence with Camera Control for iPhone 16 series, revamps notification summaries, and includes various bug fixes.

Cursify - A open-source animated cusor component built with React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and Framer Motion. Our favorite - the spotlight cursor.

Tone Guesser - Test if you have better music intuitions or color intuitions - made by scientists at Yale University!

Mastering Color Theory For Design
Learn the fundamentals of color theory and how to wield color effectively in graphic design. Understand the color wheel, primary and secondary colors, hue, saturation, and value. Apply color combinations such as complementary, analogous, and triadic colors to create visual harmony and evoke emotions.

Code Judge Powered By Claude Ai
A Rust project uses the Claude AI model to evaluate code quality based on given constraints, providing a score and message as feedback.

Legacy Code Lessons
A developer reflects on working with a legacy project, highlighting the differences between modern best practices, such as clean code, automated tests, and Agile, compared to outdated approaches like Apache Ant build files and singletons. They ponder the value of convention over configuration and dependency injection, and consider the trade-offs between separating duties and streamlining development to production.