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urban weekly #100

urban weekly #100

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Use Bash Strict Mode - Unless You Love Debugging bash
We Put a Coding Agent in a While Loop and It Shipped 6 Repos Overnight - This weekend at the YC Agents hackathon, we asked ourselves: what’s the weirdest way we could use a coding agent? ai, hackathon 🔥
Everything I know about good API design - Most of what modern software engineers do involves APIs. apis, engineering 🔥
Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case - Most models are excellent, so cost and latency dominate. ai, llms, costs
My experience creating software with LLM coding agents - Part 2 (Tips) - This post details my experiences creating software with LLM coding agents, emphasizing that what you do with AI agents is ‘creation’, not just 'coding,' and sharing what worked for me. ai, tips
ASCII output - In the latest release of D2 (0.7.1), we introduce ASCII outputs. ascii, d2

Code and Tools

NitroQR - Embedded Design QRs allow you to seamlessly integrate logos or custom designs into your QR codes while maintaining scannability. qr
Zedless - Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first zed, privacy
Perfect Freehand - Draw perfect pressure-sensitive freehand lines. drawing 🔥

Videos

Transformers, the tech behind LLMs - Deep Learning Chapter 5 - Old but still great to watch if you want to understand LLMs. llms, learning
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Published on 2025-09-01, last updated on 2025-08-25 by Adam
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Adam Urban

Adam Urban is fullstack engineer, loves serverless and generative art, and is building side projects like weeklyfoo.com, flethy.com and diypunks.xyz in his free time.

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