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Meta's Big News Roundup 🚀, Products Picks 🗓️, Smart API Testing 🤯
Today's TechToks: Meta's Connect 2024 and movie AI, Google’s 50% cheaper Gemini, best practices for generative AI from AWS, automated API testing, trending GitHub repositories, Top Product Picks, and much more!
TechTok by João Martins
October 07, 2024
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Today's Picks🍒
🚀 Big announcements from Meta: Connect 2024 and Movie Gen
⚡ Google releases cheaper Gemini Flash and $150k competition
🌱 Environment focused AI summit and The largest Venture Capital round ever
☁️ From AWS Engineering: Best practices for GenAI apps
🏡 From AirBnB Engineering: Interactive data and AI-powered web apps
🌟 GitHub's Trending Repositories
👾 Automated API testing
⚙️ 95% Code automation
💼 Huge list of remote jobs
💡 Learn Data Structures & Algorithms
🔥 Products of the Week
🦾 Build automation agents from a screen-recording
📈 Event-based analytics for founders
🎙️ Turn your documents into conversations
➕ 9 more products to generate presentations quick, zero your email inbox, and more.
🧐 Weekly Picks
Most impactful articles and news of this week on techtok.today
Highlight announcements include new small-to-medium vision and text AI models in Llama 3.2, updates to Ray-Ban smart glasses and the new, cheaper Quest VR headset 3S line with $299 or $399 options. On friday, a showcase to their movie generator was released here with a paper.
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📱 Product Picks
Curated products from Product Hunt.
🔥Trending products of the week
Easy data story telling— Send your data and Graphy AI will create a chart and explain your key insights. Ready to present in slides, or paste into Slack.
An AI-powered tool for creating stunning presentations, quizzes, and Essays in just minutes, not hours
Code Contribution Analytics app. Features Performance Reviews, Retrospective Meeting Insights, Alerts, Gamification and much more
💻 Fini
Learn to code with bite-sized lessons and quizzes for Python, JavaScript, and more. Enjoy a user-friendly interface, fit for beginners and advanced learners.
Open-source email app to reach inbox zero every day. Automate your email with our AI assistant, bulk unsubscribe from newsletters, and block out cold emails.
A platform for entrepreneurs to find co-founders to their SaaS startups
💯 TechTok Recommends
We’ve tried it and it’s the real deal.
Create no-code automation agents that run instantly on cloud, by simply uploading a Loom video or screen recording. You can test it without logging in
Event based analytics and engagement platform for founders and marketers. Generates insights and actions, while preserving context
🎙️ Podial
Turn documents into an engaging podcast discussion - and learn complex topics easily. Upload the files and Podial generates an easy-to-follow 5 minute discussion.
✨ "Too long don't README"
GitHub trending repos of today
Note: Hacktoberfest 2024 has begun! It’s an annual celebration of open source projects, here’s the official contribution guide
An API testing tool that automatically generates tests and mocks from user traffic, faster than unit tests. It uses EBPF instrumentation to record and replay all API and database calls, and also offers a unit test generator that understands code semantics.
What can you use this for? Improve test coverage, automate unit test generation, and integrate with existing testing libraries.
GPT Pilot is an AI-powered tool that can generate most of the code for a production-ready app, with a developer overseeing the remaining 5% implementation. It supports multiple LLM providers and can integrate with databases
What can you use this for? Increase developer productivity, prototype quick, and automate coding tasks
An extensive list of remote work resources from job boards and tools to articles, videos, and communities— for those seeking or managing remote positions
What can you use this for? Learn what’s expected from your dream positions, apply to new jobs, and meet travel communities
Repos to learn something new
The algorithms features many repositories to learn data structures and algorithms in different languages. This is for Python, but there’s Java, JavaScript, Rust, C, and more. Perfect for developers at any level who want to master algorithms while contributing to an open-source initiative
What can you use this for? Learn, review & browse algorithms to inspire your solutions, get quick implementations in unfamiliar languages, prepare for interviews
👩🏽💻 Engineering Blogs
Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies
 | The article focuses on creating accurate and reliable agents by collecting high-quality ground truth data. It covers diverse user intents and scenarios, and leverages APIs, knowledge bases, and guardrails to provide appropriate responses to queries |
 | How you may replicate Sandcastle, AirBnB’s internal platform for data scientists, engineers, and product managers to easily create and share interactive data/AI-powered web applications. It addresses challenges around non-technical stakeholder engagement, developer expertise, and infrastructure management |
