urban weekly #102
weekly tech news so you don't have to read all the internet
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Social media for startup founders - A practical guide to building an online presence marketing
Leaving Neovim for Zed - A journey through text editors and how I landed on Zed after years of Neovim ide 🔥
Effective Changelogs - Like your versioning scheme, your changelog is a vital and oft-overlooked method of communication to your users. Unfortunately, it's easy to write a changelog, but hard to write a great one. engoineering
An underrated software engineering interview question - Have you ever heard of bug squash interviews? If not, then read the article! hiring, career 🔥
Toasts are Bad UX - The core problem is that toasts always show up far away from the user's attention. ux 🔥
Enhancing TypeScript - Implementing Robust Error Handling with Result and Option typescript 🔥
Docusaurus 3.5 - Next minor release of Docusaurus docs
Astro 4.14 - Next minor release of Astro astro
The HONC stack - HONC is an modular collection of choice technologies for building lightweight, type-safe, edge-enabled data apis that scale seamlessly to their demand. honc, hono, drizzle, neon, cloudflare
Everything about Google Translate crashing React (and other web apps) - DOM manipulation ftw! dom, googletranslate
Read it! Read it! Read it!
I've Built My First Successful Side Project, and I Hate It - About someone who learned the game the hard way. startups 🔥
Code and Tools
Vanilla JSX - A case for vanilla JSX jsx
Dev Encyclopedia - Find out what that Sr. Developer is talking about knowledge 🔥
Stepperize - A library for creating step-by-step workflows in your apps stepper, ui
Pragtical - The practical and pragmatic code editor. editor
LogTape - Simple logging library with zero dependencies for Deno, Node.js, Bun, browsers, and edge functions logger
Isocons - Carefully crafted isometric icons icons
Zen Browser - Beautifully designed, privacy-focused, and packed with features. We care about your experience, not your data. browsers
Legend Motion - Legend Motion is a declarative animations library for React Native, to make it easy to transition between styles without needing to manage animations. animations
Milkdown - Plugin driven WYSIWYG markdown editor framework. markdown
Tagger - Zero Dependency, Vanilla JavaScript Tag Editor tags
tinykeys - A tiny (~650 B) & modern library for keybindings. keybindings
heic-to - Convert HEIC/HEIF images to JPEG, PNG in browser images
little-date - A friendly formatter to make date ranges small & sweet formatter, date
instant - The realtime client-side database databases 🔥
Quarkdown - Markdown with superpowers. markdown
Isaiah - Self-hostable clone of lazydocker for the web. Manage your Docker fleet with ease docker
Icons for AI - Free 16x16 icons made for AI projects! icons
TruffleHog - Find, verify, and analyze leaked credentials security
All about Design
How to design hand icons - The most difficult icons, hands down hands
Tutorials
Implementing SAML SSO in Node.js with Microsoft Entra ID - SAML is one of the commonly used standards for implementing SSO in enterprise environments. Even though OIDC is rapidly gaining traction, not everyone supports it, or there are compliance requirements that mandate SAML. saml, nodejs 🔥
Wasp - The JavaScript Answer to Django for Web Development - Building a full stack application just got a lot easier wasp
useStateObject - A Simple, Convenient API Around useState react, state
Making a REST API typesafe with React Query and Zod - Especially zod helps you to keep your objects in the right shape. zod, react
Published on 2024-08-26, 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.
