urban weekly #45

We ran out of columns - The best, worst codebase - Oh the merchants2 table? Yeah, we ran out of columns on merchants, so we made merchants2 xD engineering 🔥

HONC Out Loud - The Modern Guide to Building a Typescript JSON API hono, drizzle, cloudflare, neon

I made a huge mistake in becoming a Engineering Manager - Read about experiences of becoming a manager and switching back to an IC role. career

Ecosystem Performance - e18e (Ecosystem Performance) is an initiative to connect the folks and projects working to improve JS packages performance. ecosystem, javascript 🔥

Modern Git Commands and Features You Should Be Using - Didn't know about sparse checkout for example. git 🔥

How to be more concise - The truth about why it’s so hard to be concise, and 9 tactics I use to tighten my communication productivity 🔥

sqlite-vec - A vector search SQLite extension that runs anywhere! databases

arrival-time - Simple and powerful progress time estimation (ETA) for JavaScript utils

iso20022.js - A package to create and manage ISO20022 XML files to create and receive payments. iso

follow - Next generation information browser rss

easy-template-x - Generate docx documents from templates, in Node or in the browser. docx

Fair Source - Software sharing for modern businesses. Engage the developer community with your core products. source-control

Whirl - CSS loading animations with minimal effort! css, loading

Pigsty - Battery-Included PostgreSQL Distro as a Free RDS Alternative databases

CSS Editor - Online editor to play around with CSS. css

Spectrum - Free vector shapes vector, shapes

Pines UI Library - Pines is a library of animations, sliders, tooltips, accordions, modals, and more! It's a set of UI elements that can be copy and pasted into any Alpine and Tailwind projects. ui

tschema - A tiny (444b) utility to build JSON schema types. typescript, json 🔥

CSS Spring Easing Generator - Playground to generate spring easing. css

Orbit - The CSS radial UI composer framework css 🔥

Public Work - Public Work is a search engine for public domain content. Explore 100,000+ copyright-free images from The MET, New York Public Library, and other sources. images

Desigeist - Daily design gems curated by Pablo Stanley gems

Admire The Web - Daily web design inspiration from around the web specialising in minimal, clean and responsive websites. inspiration

WhenFS - A FUSE filesystem for your Google calendar. There could also be some serious use cases for this. storage 🔥

using your Kindle as an e-ink monitor - There are so many opportunities with that approach. kindle

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Published on 2024-08-12, 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.