urban weekly #102
weekly tech news so you don't have to read all the internet
Good to know
100,000 Stars - 100,000 Stars is an interactive visualization of the stellar neighborhood created for the Google Chrome web browser. stars
Protecting your email address via SVG instead of JS - Interesting approach to protect your email address. email, svg, protection
Simple Implemention to Understand worker_threads in NodeJS - Illustration how to make use of multiple cores with NodeJS workers, nodejs
State of HTML 2023 - Annual html survey results html, survey 🔥
A nice way to render Markdown in React apps - Pretty cool if you don't want to add another dependency to your project to render Markdown. markdown, react
Announcing the Web Platform Dashboard - Web platform mapped to a set of features. browsers
Death to the sidebar! - Didn't know about that, and now I can't without! vscode
Is This Project Still Maintained? - Insights from a project maintainer. projects 🔥
Idea List - Good ideas for your next side hustle. ideas
You probably don’t need microservices - I don't hate it (referencing the second sentence) microservices
React Compiler - This page will give you an introduction to the new experimental React Compiler and how to try it out successfully. react
Personal-scale Web scraping for fun and profit - Web scraping explained scraping
react-conf-app - They open-sourced the react-conf app. react
A Useful Productivity Measure? - A view on a better measure of productivity. productivity
Read it! Read it! Read it!
How to document your JavaScript package - Lots of tipps how to use JSDoc properly. docs 🔥
Code and Tools
superfile - Pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager cli 🔥
Omniclip - Open source video editing web application videos
!Boring Sound Kit - Sounds for prototyping and play. sounds
hugeicons - 3,800+ free customizable stroke icons for sleek web development and design projects. icons
Pintora - An extensible text-to-diagrams library that works in both browser and node.js diagrams
Awesome Regex - An opinionated list of regular expression tools, tutorials, libraries, and other resources regex
URLhaus - URLhaus is a project from abuse.ch with the goal of sharing malicious URLs that are being used for malware distribution. malware, abuse 🔥
Ink - React for interactive command-line apps cli, nodejs
Color Picker - Upload images and use an eye dropper to select your colors. colors
Mintlify - Meet the modern standard for public facing documentation. Beautiful out of the box, easy to maintain, and optimized for user engagement. docs 🔥
Better SSE - Dead simple, dependency-less, spec-compliant server-side events implementation for Node, written in TypeScript. nodejs, sse
Quary - Open-source BI for engineers bi
HigherOrderCO - Building the massively parallel future of computers runtime
All about Design
Visual design rules you can safely follow every time - You do not have to follow these rules every time. If you have a good reason to break any of them, do. But they are safe to follow every time. rules 🔥
Onboarding for Active Users - First time read about progressive onboarding and I like it! onboarding 🔥
Tutorials
Implementing Concurrency in Shell Scripts - Quick read if you need some advice how to run tasks in parallel in your shell script. cli, shell
Eurovision Gradients - Gradients used in Malmö gradients, colors
Build Your Own React.js in 400 Lines of Code - In-depth study of React principles react
Dynamic Github profile with Bun and Typescript - Get a list of your latest blog posts automatically updated on your Github profile. github, bun
Learn D3.js from the ground up - Massive guide for D3! d3 🔥
Bulletproof React - A simple, scalable, and powerful architecture for building production ready React applications. react
Published on 2024-05-20, 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.
