urban weekly #48

CORS is Stupid - A praise to the fact that you shouldn't rely on everything by default. Essentially, it means: think for yourself! security, cors

JS Dates Are About to Be Fixed - Finally a native object to represent a Zoned Date Time date

React Email 3.0 - An entire collection of pre-built components with a much faster development experience. email, react

Fixing a Bug in Google Chrome as a First-Time Contributor - Interesting to read the journey of fixing a bug in chrome. chrome

Dokku: my favorite personal serverless platform - Like Heroku, but you own it. dokku, infra, serverless 🔥

Manager Antipatterns - Many companies make the same sorts of mistakes with their managers, over and over again. If they were software designs, we'd call them antipatterns. leadership 🔥

One on One Meeting Format Ideas - If you're not doing them, start now. Read this article to get a better understanding why. leadership

Why I Always Use PostgreSQL Functions For Everything - I'm tending between (1) I should consider this, and (2) there's a reason not to overuse database functions. databases

Can you convert a video to pure css? - This is insane. css

5 Wasm Use Cases for Frontend Development - WebAssembly—or Wasm—is gaining ground as a frontend development option. How should you consider applying it? wasm

What is HN working on - A structured dataset ideas, hackernews

Astro 4.15 - Next minor release of Astro astro

Rspak 1.0 - Rspack is a next-generation JavaScript bundler written in Rust, compatible with the webpack API and ecosystem, and is 10 times faster than webpack. bundler

The Top Programming Languages 2024 - Typescript and Rust are among the rising stars engineering

JavaScript Generators - Explained, But On A Senior-Level javascript

I just crossed $1 million on GitHub Sponsors. - As of this morning, I've made over a million dollars on GitHub sponsors. Wowoweewow. indie 🔥

Bypassing airport security via SQL injection - This is so wild. security, airports

We've Been Lied To About Work - My big, depressing, and optimistic theory for why it's so hard to find and keep a job that makes you happy career 🔥

Leading Effective Engineering Teams - a Deepdive - What makes software teams effective, and how do the TL, EM and TLM roles differ? performance, engineering 🔥

buffdb - Embedded storage built for multiplexing. Smart machines don't need to read JSON, they only need protocol buffers. The world's first MODMS (Machine-Oriented Database Management System), built to support RocksDB, SQLite, and DuckDB as backends. databases

ChartDB - Free and Open-source database diagrams editor, visualize and design your DB with a single query. databases

fuite - A tool for finding memory leaks in web apps security

Sherlock - Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks usernames

PhotoGradient - Create gradients from uploaded images. gradients, color

html-metadata - MetaData html scraper and parser for Node.js (supports Promises and callback style) scraping

npm-check-updates - Find newer versions of package dependencies than what your package.json allows npm

Vanilla Prime - A simpler, more sustainable way of web development framework

Free Public APIs - A collection og > 200 public APIs apis

N3 - Lightning fast, spec-compatible, streaming RDF for JavaScript rdf

HotScript - A library of composable functions for the type-level! Transform your TypeScript types in any way you want using functions you already know. typescript 🔥

DEPARTURE_M0NO - Departure Mono is a monospaced pixel font inspired by the constraints of early command-line and graphical user interfaces, the tiny pixel fonts of the late 90s/early 00s, and sci-fi concepts from film and television. fonts 🔥

Animated Favicon Generator - Upload a gif and convert it to an animated favicon. animations, favicons

Alphredo - Alpha colors generator colors

Firecrawl - Turn entire websites into LLM-ready markdown or structured data. Scrape, crawl and extract with a single API. scraping

Enterprise UX - essential resources to design complex data tables - Read everything you need to know to design tables on enterpris level. tables

Create an internal CLI - programmers who know their way around a terminal cli

Remove all git local branches except main - Helpful quick tipp git

How To Create An NPM Package - In this guide, we'll go through every single step you need to take to publish a package to npm. npm, typesript 🔥

Docker app hosting - Docker on Digital Ocean docker

21 Videos from Chain React 2024 - Chain React 2024 react

Everything you need to know about @eigenlayer in 4 mins - I know, it's web3, however, it's good to stay updated! web3

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Published on 2024-09-02, 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.