urban weekly #102
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Microfrontends should be your last resort - If you're thinking about introducing microfrontends into your architecture, read this article about what you need first. architecture, microfrontends
7 Things I've learned building a modern TUI Framework - I've be working on Textual for over a year now. Here's a few things I've discovered (or re-discovered) regarding terminals in Python, and software development in general. terminal, cli
Imagining a Personal Data Pipeline - I've also thought about something similar in the past but never started hacking something. data
History of HackerNews Search - From 2007 to 2024 - The history of HackerNews (HN) search spans three generations. hackernews
It's in the stories - Lots of anecdotes, entertaining read! stories
What makes documentation good - Documentation puts useful information inside other people’s heads. Follow these tips to write better documentation. docs 🔥
350M Tokens Don't Lie - Love And Hate In Hacker News - We analyzed all Hacker News posts with more than five comments between January 2020 and June 2023. Leveraging LLama3 70B LLM, we examined both the posts and their associated comments to gain insights into how the Hacker News community engages with different topics. You can download the datasets we produced at the bottom of the article. hackernews, trends 🔥
Stop inventing product problems; start solving customer problems - Low-performing teams choose problems based on what they’d like to solve rather than what their customers need. products
Practices of Reliable Software Design - 8 tipps! engineering
Sort, sweep, and prune - Collision detection algorithms - Sweep-and-prune is my go-to algorithm when I want to quickly implement collision detection for a game. I think it’s an awesome and elegant algorithm, so I wrote a post about it. engineering
Developers hate their job, but like to code outside work - Five reports aggregated engineering
The Great npm Garbage Patch - Thousands of spam npm packages are polluting the system. npm, spam
Common Causes of Memory Leaks in JavaScript - Identify and fix common JavaScript memory leaks (Node.js and Deno.js) nodejs 🔥
Passkeys are not passwords - First time I read unphishable. passkeys
Why I Don't Like Enums - Matt likes enum. But not in TypeScript. tyüescript, enums
Coding Horrors - The Tales of Codebase Complexity - In this blog series, we ask prominent developers to share their horrifying stories and experiences in dealing with codebase complexity. engineering
Introducing GitHub Models - A new generation of AI engineers building on GitHub - We are enabling the rise of the AI engineer with GitHub Models–bringing the power of industry leading large and small language models to our more than 100 million users directly on GitHub. ai
Read it! Read it! Read it!
How we deleted 4195 code files in 9 hours - Like a Hackathon, but with a twist. Template included! engineering 🔥
Ask for Advice, Not Permission - Take responsibility for your decision. career 🔥
Code and Tools
Gradient Generator - Create nice gradients and export as css or svg. css, svg 🔥
postgres.new - In-browser Postgres with an AI interface - Supernice to have an easy way in the browser to play around with a databse. databases, postgres 🔥
Cursor - Copy macOS cursors with ease cursors, svg
Mixwave - Convert, package and manipulate your video on the fly. video
tailwindcss-highlights - A plugin for tailwindcss to add highlights to your text tailwind
Rate my OpenAPI - Upload your OpenAPI spec and get it checked. openapi
Volta - The Hassle-Free JavaScript Tool Manager tools
Turf - A modular geospatial engine written in JavaScript and TypeScript geo
Kardinal - Kardinal is the lightest-weight way to spin up dev and test environments in Kubernetes. Deploy the absolute minimum resources necessary and implement dev, test, and QA all in one cluster. infra
Tone.js - A Web Audio framework for making interactive music in the browser. audio, tone
All about Design
What’s the right font size in web design? - Learn what's the best font size for different contexts. fonts
Now in Baseline - animating entry effects - New animation! css
Fun
usBabyNames.js - Javascript / Promise based data about US Baby Names 1880-2023 for NPM / SQLite names
YTCH - See how YouTube would look like in an old TV with channels! youtube
Tutorials
Frontend Security Checklist - Tips for Keeping All Frontend Applications Secure security
Videos
A Deep Dive Into Advanced TypeScript - A Live-Coding Expedition - Devoxx typescript 🔥
Start over-engineering your CSS - CSS Day 2024 css
Japanese web design - weird, but it works. Here's why design, japan
Thinking Like an Architect - Gregor Hohpe reflects on two decades working as an architect, ranging from the executive penthouse to the serverless engine room. engineering
Published on 2024-08-19, 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.
