urban weekly #39

Exposition of Frontend Build Systems - Overview of modern tooling around frontend builds. ci

Getting 100% code coverage doesn't eliminate bugs - TL;DR - Getting 100% coverage on a project doesn’t mean you have zero bugs. Here is an extreme example to prove it. tests

How my weekend project turned into a 3 years journey - Nice read about an idea that started to rise. znote, startups

New JavaScript Set methods - New JavaScript Set methods are arriving! Since Firefox 127, these methods are available in most major browser engines, which means you won't need a polyfill to make them work everywhere. javascript

Local, first, forever - Thinking about a persistence service that stays longer than the average service. local-first 🔥

Resilient Sync for Local First - Syncing data in a local first context is not trivial but manageable. local-first

Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites - Sidenotes, TOC, reading progress - lots of things I never considered. But it's worth thinking about integrating some of them. blogs

Useful and Overlooked Skills - On his way to be sworn in as the most powerful man in the world, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had to be lifted out of his car and carried up the stairs. career

Node.js is Here to Stay - A deep dive into the metrics node 🔥

Catching Compromised Cookies - How we automatically detect stolen session cookies slack, sessions

My spiciest take on tech hiring - ...is that you only need to administer one technical interview and one non-technical interview (each no more than an hour long). career, hiring

Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites - The new Chinese owner of the popular Polyfill JS project injects malware into more than 100 thousand sites. security

Exploring Randomness In JavaScript - Math.random() and Crypto.getRandomValues() compared. random

gRPC - The Bad Parts - Downsides of gRPC grpc 🔥

Maintaining dotfiles - Will definitely try out this bare repo method. git, dotfiles

A Rant about Front-end Development - Such an entertaining read! engineering 🔥

Unsafe Pricing at Any Scale - Especially the part about blocking AI bots is a mandatory read! serverless 🔥

htmx sucks - Such a great read! htmx

Notion Avatar Maker - A Notion Avatar is a personalized avatar that aligns with the design style of Notion, a widely-used note-taking and organization tool platform. avatars

SpreadGrid - JS library for creating high-performance grid-based applications grids

Anthropic TypeScript API Library - Access to Anthropic's safety-first language model APIs sdk, anthropic

Maneken - The browser powered mockup editor mockups, images

Yazi - Blazing Fast Terminal File Manager cli

Rushlight - Real-time collaborative code editing on your own infrastructure editors

Cache Decorator - A TypeScript library providing a customizable cache decorator for methods. This library allows you to easily cache method results with configurable caching mechanisms. cache

dotenvx - a better dotenv–from the creator of dotenv dotenv

Glasskube - The next generation Package Manager for Kubernetes k8s, kubernetes 🔥

Logoipsum - 100 free placeholder logos images

Kaplay - KAPLAY is a JavaScript library that helps you make games fast and fun! games, javascript

Tachyonfx - shader-like effects library for ratatui applications cli

pdfslick - View and Interact with PDFs in React SolidJS, Svelte and JavaScript apps pdf

Snapdrag - A simple, lightweight, and performant drag and drop library for React and vanilla JS dnd

LetterDrop - LetterDrop is a secure and efficient newsletter management service powered by Cloudflare Workers, enabling easy creation, distribution, and subscription management of newsletters. newsletters

Stamp - a mini-language for project templates cli

Refero - Explore real-world designs from the best products ux

ascii-3d-renderer.js - 3D Renderer using ASCII. ascii, 3d

Introducing React-Admin V5 - React boilerplate app under MIT license. react

pixelmatch - The smallest, simplest and fastest JavaScript pixel-level image comparison library images

matter.js - Matter.js is a 2D physics engine for the web physics

Dorkly - Free Open Source Feature Flag system. Dorkly is a git-based open source feature flag backend for LaunchDarkly's open source SDKs. featureflags

MemLab - A framework for finding JavaScript memory leaks and analyzing heap snapshots javascript

dblab - The database client every command line junkie deserves. db, cli 🔥

Katana - A next-generation crawling and spidering framework. crawling

OpenStatus - The open-source synthetic & real user monitoring platform monitoring

Intro to colour contrast - Colour contrast makes a big part of the user experience for all users. Accessibility guidelines however, are not always easy to follow. In this article we will see how to meet the requirements with practical examples. colors

Designing profile, account, and setting pages for better UX - Account vs Profile, and what content should be included. ux 🔥

Securing APIs - Express rate limit and slow down - As soon as an API gets used more frequently, definitely something to consider. express

Pure CSS Circular Text (without Requiring a Monospace Font) - There is no simple and obvious way to set text on a circle in CSS. Good news though! You can create a beautiful, colorful, and even rotating circular text with pure CSS. It just takes a bit of work and we’ll go over that here. css

Popovers Work Pretty Nicely as Slide-Out Drawers - Pretty nice and all with built-in APIs css 🔥

Web Workers, Comlink, Vite and TanStack Query - Use case to compute super expensive task. workers

Web Design Engineering With the New CSS - CSS Day 2024 css

Facing Frontend's Existential Crisis - React Summit 2024 frontend

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Published on 2024-07-01, 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.