urban weekly #29

OpenAI Batch API - save costs and get higher rate limits on async tasks (such as summarization, translation, and image classification) openai

We are moving to General Availability - Supabase is becoming GA! supabase

Faster Connectivity !== Faster Websites - So true, bloated websites all over the internet. performance 🔥

Authorization is still a nightmare for engineers: Launching Distributed Authorization - Intersting approach auth

This is a teenager - Beautiful website teenager

iOS404 - All the missing features in iOS ios

Basic Things - Great advice for small to large projects. productivity 🔥

Biome v1.7 - Next minor release, with a single command migration from ESLint linting

Visualizing Algorithms - Old but gold! algorithms

JS Naked Day - April 24 it is! The web should work without JavaScript. javascript

Why you need a WTF Notebook - I like that idea. productivity

The Art Of SVG Filters And Why It Is Awesome - Didn't know that you can apply such nice filters in svg. svg

Mentorship, coaching, sponsorship: three different — and equally important — tools for developing talent - Three different characteristics career

Improving our Jest execution time by 300% - Disabling type checking was the trick. jest, tests

Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things - Never ending story. css 🔥

Modern Font Stacks - System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS fonts

Zero Sheets - Google Sheets as APIs spreadsheets, api

MarkdownDown - Convert any webpage to a clean markdown w/ images downloaded. markdown, md 🔥

redka - Redis re-implemented with SQLite redis, sqlite

morphic - An AI-powered answer engine with a generative UI ai, openai

Screen Ruler - Measure the web - Measure sizes, distances, margins and paddings of any element on any web page. chrome

Reader - Convert any URL to an LLM-friendly input with a simple prefix https://r.jina.ai/ ai

Roll your own auth - Copy & paste code to roll your own auth easily and for free auth

node-argon2 - Node.js bindings for Argon2 hashing algorithm hashing

Effect - A set of libraries to write better TypeScript typescript

MikroORM - TypeScript ORM for Node.js based on Data Mapper, Unit of Work and Identity Map patterns. orm, typescript

React Query Builder - The Query Builder Component for React react

semantic-autocomplete - A blazing-fast semantic search React component. Match by meaning, not just by letters. Search as you type without waiting (no debounce needed). Rank by cosine similarity. autocomplete

react-qrcode-logo - React + Typescript component to generate a QR Code with custom colors and logo qr

Anchor Position Tool - Get your anchor positioning css. css

SVGEncode - A simple tool to convert an SVG into different formats, ready for use in CSS and HTML. svg

portr - Expose local http, tcp or websocket connections to the public internet tunnel 🔥

fx - Terminal JSON viewer & processor cli, json

HyperFormula - A headless spreadsheet, a parser and evaluator of Excel formulas spreadsheets

Quill - Quill is a modern WYSIWYG editor built for compatibility and extensibility. editors

hatchet - Hatchet is a distributed, fault-tolerant task queue which replaces traditional message brokers and pub/sub systems - built to solve problems like concurrency, fairness, and durability. queue

ripl - Ripl provides a unified API for 2D graphics rendering in the browser with a focus towards high performance and interactive data visualization. svg, canvas

Colors - Inspirational color palettes tailored to your vision ai, colors

Gitroom - Schedule social media and articles. Exchange or buy posts from other members. Monitor your GitHub trending, and so much more. growth

Interview with Senior JS Developer 2024 [NEW] - All the shiny js libs in under 7mins javascript 🔥

Building a CLI from scratch with TypeScript and oclif - If you want to implement a ts cli, here you go. oclif, typescript, cli

Building an interactive 3D event badge with React Three Fiber - Dropping lanyard react, threejs 🔥

All Javascript conference talks from 2023 ordered by the number of views - Featuring JSConf, JSWORLD, JSNation, React Summit, React Native EU, VueJS Amsterdam, TypeScript Congress and many more! javascript

The Microsoft-Dilemma - Europe as a Software Colony - Full Documentary microsoft

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Published on 2024-04-22, 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.