urban weekly #102
weekly tech news so you don't have to read all the internet
Good to know
Running One-man SaaS, 9 Years In - Healthchecks.io launched in July 2015, which means this year we turn 9. Time flies! saas, startups 🔥
Why Unknown Types Are Useful - When external data enters your program, you can’t really be certain of its type unless you validate it. validation
Categories of leadership on technical teams - Overview of leadership categories in the wild. leadership
What we got wrong about HTTP imports - Describes what's wrong with http imports and how jsr can fix this. deno, jsr
Patterns for Memory Efficient DOM Manipulation with Modern Vanilla JavaScript - I’ll discuss best practices to avoid excess memory usage when managing updating the DOM to make your apps blazingly fast. performance
List of Chromium Command Line Switches - There are lots of command lines which can be used with the Google Chrome browser. Some change behavior of features, others are for debugging or experimenting. This page lists the available switches including their conditions and descriptions. chrome
How I Computer in 2024 - All the secrets from Jon Seager personal-setup 🔥
Why CSV is still king - csv my good old friend. csv
Managing Underperformers - Kind managers address underperformance early and accurately. leadership
Advice to the young - The first one already hooked me - It is called foundations, not theory. engineering 🔥
Read it! Read it! Read it!
How to save $13.27 on your sAAs bill - Building your own analytics tool. But the exciting part is how entertaining this story is written! analytics 🔥
Code and Tools
AI Notes - notes for software engineers getting up to speed on new AI developments ai
Landingfolio - The Best Landing Page Design Inspiration, Templates and More. templates
gg - The software architecture simulator simulator
moshimosh - A hybrid TypeScript Node package creator template
terminal-image - Display images in the terminal terminal, nodejs
SSOReady - Open-source dev tools for enterprise SSO. Ship SAML support this afternoon. sso, auth
Rendley - JavaScript Video Editing in the Browser video
Porffor - A from-scratch experimental AOT JS engine, written in JS wasm 🔥
Sendune HTML Email Designer - Drag and drop HTML email designer - truly free and open source. emails, ses
react-movable - Drag and drop for your React lists and tables. Accessible. Tiny. dnd
Vaul - An unstyled drawer component for React. drawer, react
Plunk - The Open-Source Email Platform emails
Dice - A drop-in replacement of Redis with SQL-based realtime reactivity. redis
Embedding.io - Crawl, chunk, and vectorize any websites so you can use their content with LLMs. ai, llm
Free Fonts - A selection of complimentary typography for your web projects. Best free fonts for designers. fonts
json-to-csv-export - A function to easily generate csv downloads of your json data json, csv
Neat CSS - Rapidly build efficient sites with Neat, the minimalist css framework. css 🔥
Sniffet - Application to comfortably monitor your Internet traffic monitoring
Tutorials
Practical SVG - Detailed introduction into SVGs svgs 🔥
Videos
What's new in React 19 - React Conf 2024 react 🔥
Published on 2024-08-05, last updated on 2025-09-13 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.
