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Food for Thought
A mindset, an example, and an action item to start the week
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"Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it."

Charles Swindoll

Mindset: This quote reminds us that our outlook shapes our outcomes - focus on what you can control.

Example: Patagonia, a successful outdoor apparel company, embodies this quote by empowering employees to make sustainable decisions.

Action: Identify one thing you can't control today, then consider how you will react to it positively.

The Rabbit Hole
Deep dives, trends, and resources curated to stay ahead

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Improving Forecasting for Programmers

The Weekly Digest
Software, AI, and startup news worth your time

Brief: Apple introduces Apple Intelligence features that enhance email and text processing, alongside a new M4-powered iMac, focusing on AI advancements to improve user experience and productivity.

Brief: GitHub introduces Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview, enhancing developer choice in Copilot with improved AI model options for coding tasks.

Brief: OpenAI is gearing up for the December release of its Orion model, initially granting access to select companies while aiming for enhanced AI capabilities.

Brief: A controversial Google-led proposal suggests splitting JavaScript into two languages to streamline features and enhance security, sparking mixed reactions from developers about the reliance on tooling.

Brief: The battery technology race intensifies as companies like Factorial and QuantumScape innovate with solid-state and high-silicon anodes, promising greater energy density and faster charging for future electric vehicles.

The Quick Byte
One coding tip because you’re technical after all

This week’s coding challenge:

This week’s tip:

In React, the useTransition hook enables prioritizing UI updates by marking non-urgent state updates as transitions, preventing UI freezes during expensive operations.

Wen?

  • Heavy Computations: Perfect for scenarios involving expensive data filtering, sorting, or processing that might block the main thread.

  • Large List Rendering: Useful when updating large lists or tables where the rendering process might cause UI jank.

  • Concurrent Feature Usage: Ideal when implementing features that require concurrent rendering capabilities in React 18+.

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