urban weekly #108
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Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews - In the last two years, code review has gotten much more important. engineering, reviews
GenAI Image Showdown - A comparison of various SOTA generative image models on specific prompts and challenges with a strong emphasis placed on adherence. sota, llm, ai, images
Scripts I wrote that I use all the time - In my decade-plus of maintaining my dotfiles, I’ve written a lot of little shell scripts. Here’s a big list of my personal favorites. scripts, cli
Advice for New Principal Tech ICs - i.e., Notes to Myself principal, engineering
Always Be Ranking - Anytime you’re making a list at work, rank it. engineering, career
The Search Problem - Why Your Computer Finds Things Faster Than You Do search, trees, algorithms, engineering
Code and Tools
Shadcn Themer - Shadcn Themer is a web application that lets you to create, customize, and share themes for shadcn/ui shadcn
oxdraw - Diagram as Code Tool Written in Rust with Draggable Editing draw
Semantic Art - Instead of another prompt bar for generation, this is an art search engine that invites you to search with your imagination. art, search
React Grab - Grab any element on in your app and give it to Cursor, Claude Code, etc react, ai
FTA - Rust-based static analysis for TypeScript projects typescript, analysis
Fun
Morwse - Real-time multi-user morse code collaboration tool audio, morse
Videos
The Future of Astro - ViteConf 2025 astro
Why he's the most trusted man in design - This is a series about design, creativity and the people behind dope work. design
Published on 2025-11-03, last updated on 2025-10-28 by Adam
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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.
