urban weekly #4

The Startup CTO Handbook - Essential skills and best practices for high performing engineering teams book, cto, tech

What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing - A primer on GPU architecture and computing gpu

Continuous growth in tech: 50+ Resources I swear by as a Senior Software Engineer - wow, 50 resources! tech, up2date

The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses actually make the future look cool - While Meta hasn’t reinvented the category, it’s nailed the execution. But culturally, is the timing right for smart glasses? glasses

How TechCrunch Spent $1 Million Rebuilding Their Website - 500k for engineering, that's tough redesign

Base64 Encoding, Explained - Good to know! ;) base64

Release: Yarn 4.0 - I completely switched to pnpm, but good to know! yarn

A comprehensive list of 2023 tech layoffs - January was really bad layoffs

The Ideation Flywheel - A mental model for deciding which startup ideas to pursue, and how to pursue them. ideas

Become a better engineer by working on side projects - This will increase your knowledge substantially! grow

Goodbye, Node.js Buffer - It's time to move from Buffer to Uint8Array. node, buffer

The nine best recommendations in the new React docs - If you're building react apps: read it! react

Where are all the laid-off software developers going? - Many are becoming their own boss! layoffs

Next 14 - Next Next major release next

MDX3 - Next MDX major release mdx

Why I Won't Use Next.js - Always like opinions by Kent Dodds, I'm on the same page! next, react, remix

We have used too many levels of abstractions and now the future looks bleak - good advice! tech

Refactoring has a price. Not refactoring has a cost. Either way, you pay. - Next time you thing about refactoring your code base remember this refactoring

Meet Nightshade, the new tool allowing artists to ‘poison’ AI models with corrupted training data - Game on! ai, nightshade

The Three Cs: 🤝 Concatenate, 🗜️ Compress, 🗳️ Cache - There are also more Cs in the post ;) performance

Internet Artifacts - sweet memories... history, internet

Durable - Build a website in 30 seconds with AI. website builder, ai

tl;dv - The meeting recorder that transcribes & summarizes your calls with customers, prospects, and your team. transcription

Microsoft Designer - Create stunning designs lightning-fast with AI image, ai

Hackreels - Animate your code, in HD code, animations

remotion - Make videos programmatically. video, react

Pallyy - Social media management platform for growing brands and agencies social media

unjs - Unleash JavaScript's Potential with the UnJS Ecosystem javascript

CSS Size Analyzer - Analyze CSS size and catch bloat like embedded images or fonts. css, size

termshot - Creates screenshots based on terminal command output screenshots, terminal

react-magic-motion - react.js library that ✨ magically animates your components react, animations

Protomaps - A free and open source map of the world maps

ColPat - AI meets color ai, colors

Unrevealed - New feature flag service featureflags

background-removal-js - Remove backgrounds from images directly in the browser environment with ease and no additional costs or privacy concerns. images, bg

whatsapp-bot - A simple and easy-to-use WhatsApp bot project, written in TypeScript. bot, whatsapp

openai-node - The official Node.js / Typescript library for the OpenAI API ai, openai, node

Effect - Effect is a powerful TypeScript library designed to help developers easily create complex, synchronous, and asynchronous programs. typescript

OpenAPI DevTools - Effortlessly discover API behaviour with a Chrome extension that automatically generates OpenAPI specifications in real time for any app or website openapi, chrome, api

clipboardy - Access the system clipboard (copy/paste) clipboard, node, javascript, browser

Perspective - Perspective is an interactive analytics and data visualization component, which is especially well-suited for large and/or streaming datasets. charts, visualization

Pollen - The CSS variables build system css, variables

Color Spectrum - Generate color palettes and apply instantly colors

LensGo - AI Image generation ai, images

AppMotion - Explore the best, hand-picked app motion design animation

Dark - The best hand-picked dark themed websites on the internet. dark theme

Accessible Numbers - Presenting numbers and data clearly. a11y

Avoid too light fonts in typography - Nothing more to add ;) fonts

Changing Colors in an SVG Element Using CSS and JavaScript - Nothing totally new, but a nice wrap up css, svg

cccolor - HEX, RGB & HSL color picker colors

Color contrast accessibility tools with examples - a11y! a11y, colors

404 Illustrations - Trendy, ready to use images for your 404 page 404

verto.sh - verto.sh simplifies your entry into the open-source world by curating accessible projects. a11y

Geist - New font by vercel fonts

Pong on Chrome dev tools - Nothing more to say ;) game, pong

bad-licenses - A compendium of absurd open-source licenses. licenses

Redditors are competing to design the most asinine volume sliders - old but gold! volume control