urban weekly #23

Threads says it will make its API broadly available by June - Attention to all social media post scheduling services! threads

Quality is a hard sell in big tech - What I definitely can confirm: bad devex quality

Apple reverses course on death of Progressive Web Apps in EU - Happy end for EU? apple, pwas

The 3 key jobs of a product manager: Recognize the problem, Structure a solution, and Execute - Recognize the customer problem, structure a solution, and execute on the solution product

Rethinking the startup MVP: Building a competitive product - Adjusted understanding of an MVP product, mvp

Streaming HTML out of order without JavaScript - Sending HTML from a web server to a browser in chunks as it is generated html

CSS Hooks: A new way to style your React apps - oO css and hooks css

CSS for printing to paper - Maybe an edge case, but get some insights how to style a webpage for printing. css, printing

5 Lessons I learned the hard way from 6 years as a software engineer - I often read similar articles, but this one brings some good five lessons on point. career

Organizing and Running Successful Hackathons - Hackathons are fun for engineers, beneficial for businesses, and a good way to shake things up. This article suggests approaches for running successful hackathons – and whether you should hold one. hackathons

React 19: Everything you need to know in one place - Discover the latest features of React 19, from the React Compiler to Server Components and Enhanced Hooks. Learn how to upgrade and improve your web development process. react

Feature flags are ruining your codebase - The dangers of letting PMs control them featureflags

Million Lint is in public beta - VSCode extension for Million to help you improve your react app with Million million, vscode

The hater’s guide to Kubernetes - I had so much fun with k8s. never. kubernetes 🔥

Tiny Predictive Text - Predictive Text Using 2MB of JavaScript, no LLM. markov, prediction

The Developer’s Guide to SSO - Enterprises expect an SSO login to your SaaS in todays world. Better to be prepared. sso, saml

JSR: Second Look - David gives more insights from his impressions with jsr jsr

Help, I see a problem and no one is prioritizing it! - Explain the impact, not the problem career 🔥

ElysiaJS - TypeScript with End-to-End Type Safety, unified type system and outstanding developer experience. Supercharged by Bun. bun, typescript

404s - gallery of error 404 page designs 404 🔥

yoctocolors - The smallest and fastest command-line coloring package on the internet javascript, colors

About Ideas Now - Find people to talk to or collaborate with by searching across the /about, /ideas and /now pages. Already put it on my todo list to add those pages. inspiration

Shiki - A beautiful yet powerful syntax highlighter highlighter

radicle - Radicle is a sovereign peer-to-peer network for code collaboration, built on top of Git. collaboration

Tailframes - Tailwind CSS UI Kit that simplifies the process of building web apps tailwind

Simple Icons - Free SVG icons for popular brands icons

BlockNote - The open source Block-Based rich text editor editors 🔥

Daytona - Daytona is the enterprise-grade Codespaces alternative for managing self-hosted, secure and standardized development environments. coding, environment

react-barcode - A <Barcode/> component for use with React. react

Poline - "poline" is an enigmatic color palette generator, that harnesses the mystical witchcraft of polar coordinates. colors

Plotly - Built on top of d3.js and stack.gl, Plotly.js is a high-level, declarative charting library. charts

ONBOARDING_LIB - It's like a library screams at you ;) onboarding, react

Color Palette Generator - Transform inspiration into vibrant color schemes with our intuitive color combination generator colors

Lummi - The best free stock photos and royalty free images. Powered by robots everywhere. photos, ai

Daggerverse - Discover and share modules full of Dagger functions encapsulating the community's devops knowledge. infra, automation

LogScreen - Loglines can be messy, read it better on a browser, <command npx logscreen> logs

An HTML Switch Control - New control in Safari 17.4 apple, safari, switch

The Death of User Interfaces - Dive into how product design has shifted towards a UI focus and how the AI “revolution” is gradually phasing out the “traditional user interfaces.” ui, ai 🔥

How to Make a Chrome Extension: Step-by-Step Guide - Always good to know how to build your own Chrome extension to automate things. chrome

Modern CSS Tooltips And Speech Bubbles - Create your own tooltips! tooltips

CSS scroll-triggered animations with style queries - Very popular currently. css 🔥

Expo in 100 Seconds - Learn the fundamentals of React Native development in Expo in this quick breakdown. expo

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Published on 2024-03-11, 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.