urban weekly #22

JavaScript Bloat in 2024 - See example for landing pages that load > 10mb of javascript oO javascript

Using the Switch(true) Pattern in JavaScript - Loving that approach. It definitely simplifies if-else spaghetti code switch, javascript

Lessons from my third year running a SaaS - Insights from the founder of OnlineOrNot startups

What apps have you made for your own use only, that you use daily? - Reddit thread about your side projects sideprojects

Disillusioned with Deno - This article lines out how Deno's trying to build common tools by their own which puts the project behind Node deno

Free Monitor Certificate expiry via RSS - That's a proper approach to keep track of your website certificates. rss, certificates 🔥

Frugly vs. Freemium - Never thought about that, but make your UI (super) ugly in free tier and get payed for a nice looking UI is an interesting approach. pricing 🔥

<Sorry, I Need A TypeScript Playground In Order To Help> - Good advice to not send just a screenshot of your borken code ;) typescript, playground

The unwritten rules (till now) of negotiating with Meta - If you ever want to work for Meta it's a good idea to start with this article. meta, interview

Lift-off: The MDN Curriculum launch - The MDN Curriculum provides a structured guide to the essential skills and practices for being a successful front-end developer, along with recommended learning resources. knowledge

A manifesto for small, static, web apps - 10 items in the manifesto. static

12 Years at Meta - What a journey! meta

Why Does 'is-number' Package Have 59M Weekly Downloads? - Just saying: chain of dependencies! npm

17 Equations that Changed the World - Rewritten in JavaScript - <3 algorithms

JSR: First Impressions - Still on my todo list, but happy to read some first impressions. deno, registry

Survey Results and Roadmap - Deno shared their roadmap deno

In praise of Nushell - Also tried out nushell and it's worth checking it out. cli, nushell

Software Engineers Need a Brag Doc - I'm maintaining a brag doc since four years now and it really helps me to keep track of all the things I've done. productivity

30/3/30 approach - 30 seconds, 3 minutes, 30 minutes, quite simple. pitch

React is the New IBM - Bold statement react

The 14 pains of building your own billing system - You want to build your own billing, because it's basically just a spreadsheet? Read this article ;) billing 🔥

Expressive Code - A text marking & annotation engine for presenting source code on the web. vscode, presentations

huemint - Huemint uses machine learning to create unique color schemes for your brand, website or graphic colors

PGlite - Lightweight Postgres packaged as WASM into a TypeScript library for the browser, Node.js, Bun and Deno postgresql

Chartwell - Regularly I don't advertise products that have no free tier. But this one looks really good and seems to make the handling of charts quite easy. At least for very simple ones. charts, fonts

node-rate-limiter-flexible - Atomic counters and rate limiting tools. Limit resource access at any scale. node

borp - node:test runner wrapper with TypeScript support node, typescript, tests

cloudevents - A specification for describing event data in a common way. Can be used for webhooks in general. spec, webhooks

Layers - Explore trending designs explore

SQL Workbench - Run SQL queries in the browser sql

pico - Tools from hacker labs including a static hosting service, a pastebin and a private docker registry. services 🔥

ingestr - ingestr is a CLI tool to copy data between any databases with a single command seamlessly. cli

TinyMCE - JavaScript library for rich text editing. javascript, editors

web-check - All-in-one OSINT tool for analysing any website web

Colormind - Colormind is a color scheme generator that uses deep learning. It can learn color styles from photographs, movies, and popular art. colors

Navbar Gallery - Find the best navigation designs from leading websites to fuel your inspiration. navbars

Great Products Have Great Premises - The most powerful thing a product can do is give its user a premise. products

The Linear Look - There’s one style that seems to be taking over the tech SaaS world, and it’s the one popularized by Linear’s homepage. landingpages 🔥

UX Language - A comprehensive set of useful and semi-universal UX copywriting and style guidelines and examples to reference while designing and building products and interfaces. copywriting

How to Create a Memorable Logo In 2024 - 10 vital tips for designers and entrepreneurs logos

Show, not tell: How to make use of restricted or scrapped design work - How to transform design work restricted by NDAs or scrapped prematurely nda

Cartoonifier - Turn any selfie into a cartoon. ai

Generating SVG Avatars From Identifiers - Pizza slides as avatars! svg, avatars 🔥

How to build an offline-first app using Expo & Legend State - Learn how to build and assess the effectiveness of an offline first application using Legend State and Expo. expo

Apple style blow out text effect. - Really like that one. css

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Published on 2024-03-04, 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.