urban weekly #102
weekly tech news so you don't have to read all the internet
Good to know
window.ai - running AI LOCALLY from DevTools! - This will go wild as soon as available for all. ai, chrome
A Git story - Not so fun this time - Rise of Git (and GitHub) git 🔥
Serving a billion web requests with boring code - This is the way to go. All the boring tech is the foundation of all the robust software. engineering 🔥
Top paying technologies - Zig is the highest-paid language to know this year (a new addition), while Clojure gets knocked from the top spot with a 10% decrease from 2022. survey, salaries
Lessons From 20 Years Hacking MySQL (Part 1) - Very entertaining! engineering
My programming beliefs as of July 2024 - This is a collection of things I believe about computer programming as of today. It’s based on my own experience. engineering 🔥
Web Performance Guide - Here's everything you need to know to master website monitoring, analytics, and diagnostics. performance
The many faces of undefined in JavaScript - There are too many ways to represent unknown or missing data and this can lead to defects. javascript
Cloudflare debuts one-click nuke of web-scraping AI - Take that for ignoring robots.txt! cloudflare, bots
Your Company's Problem is Hiding in Plain Sight - High Work-In-Progress (WIP) - You Need Lazy People to Have Restless Features performance
How to Annul Promises in JavaScript - Creating Cancelable Tasks in JavaScript with Promise.withResolvers and AbortController javascript, promises
TypeScript 5.5 - A Blockbuster Release - Lots of new features in the next minor release typescript
You’re Closer Than You Think - The Only 6 DNS Concepts You Really Need - DNS explained. dns
The saddest Just Ship It story ever - IndieHacker story about benji! indie 🔥
Eponymous Laws - Some observations that might ring true engineering
Read it! Read it! Read it!
Numbers To Know For Managing (Software Teams) - This is a collection of very true topics, written in a very entertaining way. management 🔥
Code and Tools
Pikimov - Online motion design and video editor video
Docmost - Docmost is an open source collaborative documentation and wiki software. It is an open-source alternative to the likes of Confluence and Notions. docs, collaboration
Solid Toast - Create beautiful, customizable toasts with Solid JS notifications, toast
doggo - Command-line DNS Client for Humans. Written in Golang cli
squirrelly - Semi-embedded JS template engine that supports helpers, filters, partials, and template inheritance. 4KB minzipped, written in TypeScript templating 🔥
fast-json-stringify - 2x faster than JSON.stringify() stringify, json
Mako - An extremely fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust. bundler
SmoothMQ - A drop-in replacement for SQS designed for great developer experience and efficiency. queues, sqs
Changesets - A way to manage your versioning and changelogs with a focus on monorepos changelog
Search HackerNews - A search engine for HackerNews search
React Ace - A set of react components for Ace (Editor) react
lets form - A JSON form generator for React with Material UI / AntDesign / Bootstrap / RSuite / Mantine react, forms
H5Web - React components for data visualization and exploration visualization
GridStack - Build interactive dashboards in minutes. grids, dashboards
Flitter - Flitter is a powerful framework inspired by Flutter, supporting both SVG and Canvas to create high-performance graphics and user interfaces. visualizations 🔥
MSHR - A collection of 208 vanilla CSS mesh gradients free for you to use in any of your projects. css, gradients
json.bash - Command-line tool and bash library that creates JSON json
bwip-js - Barcode Writer in Pure JavaScript barcode
Superstruct - A simple and composable way to validate data in JavaScript (and TypeScript). validation
Termino.js - Create a web based terminal on any website - great for games, animations and real world apps! terminal
0xtools - X-Ray vision for Linux systems cli, performance
All about Design
The country where design is dominated by women - Unlike in most parts of the world, Iceland's design scene is overwhelmingly female. equality
The time for designers to learn to code is now - With design tools further commoditising and sanitising expected creative output, the time for designers to be able to stand out is very much here. coding 🔥
Fun
535 ways to reload the page with JavaScript - Javascript is such a joy javascript 🔥
sliderland - a minimalist coding playground sliders 🔥
Tutorials
Profiling Node.js Applications - Learn how to profile your node app. performance
How to Perform Data Validation in Node.js - By using the express validation middleware. validation
CSS Surprise Manga Lines - When a manga or anime character is surprised, lines focus on and highlight their face. Is it possible to create a similar effect with HTML and CSS? css
Practical Deep Learning for Coders - A free course designed for people with some coding experience, who want to learn how to apply deep learning and machine learning to practical problems. ai
Videos
How Vercel Works - With Malte Ubl, we deep dived into how Vercel works as a team, what could developer experience look like, and the future of AI-enabled applications. vercel
Published on 2024-07-08, 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.
