This Week I Learned - Week #27 2025

This Week I Learned - 

* Firebase Studio is the fullstack AI workspace from Google that accelerates your development lifecycle. 

* Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) guidance for AI implementations provides a structured process for adopting AI solutions in Azure. 

* 90% of Claude Code is now written with Claude Code

* Cloudflare's hosting service enables users to block visitors from specified countries.

* LinkedIn Learning Code Challenges courses are integrated with GitHub Codespaces and powered by CoderPad. 

* Data Feminism is a book  written by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein as part literature review, part call to action. It explores how data science and data ethics can be informed by intersectional feminism. 

* Spider-Map (Open Edition) shows Euclidean distance and real walking routes on a map helping visualize for example, how far the nearest metro stations feel from anywhere in a city.

* Census Data Viz has been created using `tidycensus` package for R by the folks at USGS Vizlab

* India in Numbers

- A third of UK-trained medical graduates left the country last year and went to places like New Zealand, Canada and Australia. The largest cohort of foreign doctors and nurses in the NHS are Indian nationals. As of June 2023, 10,865 hospital doctors and 31,992 nurses were Indian.

- SEBI has accused global quantitative trading giant Jane Street Group of manipulating Indian markets by inflating and crashing stock prices to earn Rs 43,289 crore in options profits. The global proprietary trading firm was founded in 2000 by a team of traders and technologists in New York.

- Catamaran, the family office of Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy has generated over $110 million in profits from its Amazon joint venture.

- Reliance Retail Ventures has announced that it will buy a minority stake in UK-based FaceGym and bring FaceGym into India.  FaceGym is a facial gym studio founded by former beauty and wellness columnist Inge Theron in 2014. Following a two-year study in facial massage and muscle stimulation, she worked with experts across the world to create a signature workout for the face that uses advanced tools to lift, sculpt and tone facial muscles for immediate results that can be seen and felt.

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