urban weekly #21

PWAs wont replace native iOS apps - Unfortunately there are many downsides, however, personally I'm totally convinced the gaps should be filled to have (nearly) feature parity. pwa

Learning about debuggers - Quite nerdy, but surely interesting if you want to learn more about debuggers ;) debug

From engineer to manager: what I love, what I hate - Love and hate after transitioning to a manager role career

React Trends in 2024 - What's going on in the React world in 2024? react, trends

SQL query optimization: a comprehensive developer's guide - An SQL optimization guide for developers. With best practices, warnings, and pro tips to speed up your SQL query optimization. sql

It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU - That's a really sad development apple, pwa 🔥

Remix Vite is Now Stable - Vite support is now stable in Remix remix, vite

Warp, the modern terminal, is now available for Linux - The popular terminal is now available for Linux! terminal

Meet Rocket Turtle - The new nodejs moscot nodejs

random() distribution visualization - Beautifully visualized, and interesting! random

Using localStorage in Modern Applications: A Comprehensive Guide - Advices, best practives and comparisons to indexed-db, opfs, and more. localstorage

HTMX vs React: A Complete Comparison - If you want to get the differences between htmx and react in a 12min read - that's the right article for you. htmx, react

Redwood v7.0.0 is now available! - Next major release of Redwood redwood

Mind officially blown - See how Paige Bailey recorded a video and Gemini generated Selenium code out of it. Pretty cool. gemini

Bloom Filters - First time I read about bloom filters. But the reduction in size for some special use cases is impressive. algorithms 🔥

groq - Incredible fast Mixtral-based chatbot, haven't seen something at nearly the same speed as this one. llm, chatbot 🔥

CodeRev - CodeRev is a lightweight tool to help you organize and conduct technical interviews using code reviews rather than leetcode. interviews

yamlify-object - Stringify object/array with yaml syntax yaml

rustwasm - Rust and WebAssembly rust, wasm

dax - Cross-platform shell tools for Deno and Node.js inspired by zx. shell

Lucia - Lucia is an auth library for your server that abstracts away the complexity of handling sessions. auth

React Print - Build and generate PDF using React UI kit for PDFs and print documents. react

react-document-picture-in-picture - Feature-packed and optimised React component for Chrome's new Document Picture-in-Picture API react

react-use-wizard - A React wizard (stepper) builder without the hassle, powered by hooks. react, wizard

OKLCH Color Picker & Converter - Another color picker colors, oklch

Marquee - A beautiful marquee component for React. react

Park UI - Beautifully designed components built for your choice of JS and CSS frameworks. javascript, css, components

drag-and-drop - FormKit’s Drag and Drop is a small library for adding data-first drag and drop sorting and transferring for lists in your app. It’s simple, flexible, framework agnostic, and clocks in at only ~4Kb gzipped. dnd 🔥

js-tokens - Tiny JavaScript tokenizer. javascript

Pages CMS - A user-friendly CMS for static site generators. cms, github 🔥

Retell AI - Conversational Voice API for Your LLM ai, llm

Danswer - Ask Questions in natural language and get Answers backed by private sources. Connects to tools like Slack, GitHub, Confluence, etc. ai, llm

canvas-size - Determine the maximum area, height, width, and custom dimensions of an HTML canvas element. canvas

Subscripteo - Compare the best Web Design & Development Subscriptions subscriptions, products

Mobile search: which pattern should you choose? - Design patterns for search when it comes mobile apps mobile, search

How I Developed the 10 Usability Heuristics - Jakob Nielsen’s 10 usability heuristics were defined from a factor analysis of the use of a much larger set of usability principles to explain a database of usability problems in development projects. principles

UI = f(statesⁿ) - All the states that can happen on pages/components. states 🔥

html.to.design - Import websites into Figma to iterate, redesign, benchmark and more; without building each element from scratch. figma

F-Shape Pattern And How Users Read - TIL: Users spend 80% of the time viewing the left half of a page ux

Motionimo - Your daily dose of quality resources and beautiful animations. animations

404 Creatives: Exploring the Artistry of 404 Error Page Design - Beautiful compilation of 404 pages. 404, notfound

Okay, Color Spaces - Colors arranged in the space colors

Algorithm-Driven Design - How artificial intelligence is changing design ai

Dead Simple Sites - The most minimal sites on the web, curated in one place. minimal, websites 🔥

drams - Framer components inspired by Dieter Rams' design principles components

The 3 secrets to Font Pairing - Three simple rules. fonts

Cross My Heart - Frogger Demake in 256 Bytes games 🔥

Building Interactive Data Visualizations with D3.js and React - Data visualizations are a powerful way to represent complex information in a digestible and engaging manner. React, a popular JavaScript library for building user interfaces, can be integrated with D3.js to create stunning and interactive data visualizations. react, d3

On-Scroll Animation Ideas for Sticky Sections - Some ideas of how sticky sections can be animated while exiting the viewport. animations 🔥

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Published on 2024-02-26, last updated on 2025-09-14 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.