🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #71

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#MalwareAlert - Check this out - Some scammers are using Google's own ad system to spread malware! They even made it look legit by using a verified user and a GitHub download link! A team at Malwarebytes spotted this and warned everyone to avoid clicking on ads to download software.

#ChromeSavesTheDay - So, you know when you're researching something and you have like a million tabs open, but then you close the browser and can't find that one crucial tab again? Yeah, Google just dropped a new feature in Chrome that's about to change the game! It basically lets you ask your browsing history questions in natural language. Like, you can type "What was that ice cream shop I looked at” and it will show you that result immediately.

#200milAndCounting - Threads has reached 200 million active users, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said. The social media platform launched in July 2023 and has taken just 13 months to achieve the figure. Mark Zuckerberg said last year that Threads has a “good chance” of becoming a platform with more than a billion users.

#CelebrityVoiceSells - Judi Dench, Keegan-Michael Key, and Awkwafina are among multiple “actors and influencers’ whose voices could become part of Meta’s AI offering. The company is apparently working to wrap up deals quickly so it can show off the new voices at its Meta Connect conference in September.

India Migrates over 25,000 Lenders to ERP In Just Five Months
India's government has successfully migrated 25,904 rural lenders to a unified ERP system, as part of its initiative to modernize rural lending operations. The system aims to improve efficiency, governance, and speed up loans. Additionally, the government has adopted an electronic HRMS to digitally manage employee records and has launched a project to digitize 300 million national archives over the next two years.

Unacademy Employees to Skip Appraisals in 2024
Unacademy, an edtech unicorn, will not be giving out appraisals to its employees in 2024. According to CEO Gaurav Munjal, the company didn't hit its projected growth numbers, and instead of giving cash bonuses, it will provide performance-linked stock options. The company laid off 250 employees recently and is undergoing restructuring efforts.

India's Quick Commerce Market Gets a New Player: Flipkart
Flipkart, owned by Walmart and India's largest e-commerce firm, has launched its quick commerce service, Flipkart Minutes, in Bengaluru, offering 10-15 minute delivery of a wide range of products.

Rediff’s New Chapter
Infibeam Avenues, a payments infrastructure firm, has acquired 54% of rediff[dot]com, a 28-year-old Indian internet firm that was once valued at $600 million. Rediff was one of India's leading web portals, offering email, news, and e-commerce services, but struggled to adapt to the evolving digital landscape. Infibeam plans to cross-sell financial products to Rediff's 55 million monthly visitors.

Primereact | The Most Complete React UI Component Library

Limbo | Limbo is a work-in-progress, in-process OLTP database management system, compatible with SQLite.

Mega list of resources for CSS
You are going to want to bookmark this. The author has shared a bunch of links that are very useful when writing CSS.

Wisdom from a Seasoned Developer
In his blog post, Murat Buffalo shares his accumulated wisdom on topics like the importance of foundations, practical application, and the value of people skills. He emphasizes the need to keep learning by shipping small projects weekly and asking for help when needed.

Information Scent: How Do Users Decide Where To Click
Information scent determines users’ ability to predict what they will find. Users rely on the information scent emitted by links and navigation options. Good information scent happens when link labels accurately represent the content they lead to.

Technical Debt Frustration
In the latest Stack Overflow survey, developers flagged technical debt as the biggest source of frustration. But what exactly is technical debt? It's not just "quick and dirty" code. It's intentionally simplifying or compromising code to meet a deadline, with a plan to address it later. However, without a plan and business alignment, it becomes cruft, accumulating over time. To avoid this, prioritize clean code, with simplicity, readability, and expressiveness.