urban weekly #102
weekly tech news so you don't have to read all the internet
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Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting - Syntax Highlighting in Hand-Coded Websites fonts
Announcing TypeScript 5.6 - Next minor release of TypeScript typescript
OpenTelemetry Tracing in 200 lines of code - Developers tend to treat tracing as deep magic, and OpenTelemetry is no exception. OpenTelemetry may be even more mysterious given how many concepts your are exposed to even with beginning examples. telemetry, analytics 🔥
Being an engineering manager at Amazon - An insider take on what Amazon can teach you about leading software developers. leadership 🔥
The HTTP QUERY Method - This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent request method that can carry request content. http
Read it! Read it! Read it!
AIAIAI - How tired are we collectively about AI? Are we over it yet? Can you even hear about it anymore? I'm sorry if you can't, because this essay will be entirely about it. ai 🔥
Code and Tools
Conform - A type-safe form validation library utilizing web fundamentals to progressively enhance HTML Forms with full support for server frameworks like Remix and Next.js. validation
kty - The terminal for Kubernetes k8s
react-call - Call your React components react
Adze - A library for shaping your JavaScript logs. logging
jaqt - GraphQL-style Array.select() and Array.where() for javascript javascript
CSS Nano - Plug in cssnano into your build step for modern CSS compression. css, compression
Chris Titus Tech's Linux Utility - Chris Titus Tech's Linux Toolbox - Linutil is a distro-agnostic toolbox designed to simplify everyday Linux tasks. linux, tools
Nano-Spawn - Tiny process execution for humans - a better child_process nodejs
Tough Cookie - RFC6265 Cookies and CookieJar for Node.js cookies
FarmHash - Node.js implementation of FarmHash, Google's family of high performance hash functions hashing
rainfrog - a database management tui for postgres databases, cli
deck.gl - WebGL2 powered visualization framework visualizations 🔥
Dev Utilities - Jam exists to make developers lives easier. Here are fast, free, open source, ad-free tools. tools
FortuneSheet - A drop-in javascript spreadsheet library that provides rich features like Excel and Google Sheets spreadsheets
fast-dotproduct - dotProduct(vectorsA, vectorsB) in JIT-optimized JavaScript, WebAssembly/WASM using SIMD vector instructions. pthread, WebGPU, WebGL, WebNN experiments. calculations
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Read Easier With our Free Font fonts
Electrico - A Lightweight Electron App Container nodejs, rust
SideKick - Bare metal to production ready in mins; your own fly server on your VPS. infra 🔥
ts-remove-unused - Remove unused code from your TypeScript project tools 🔥
All about Design
Loading & progress indicators — UI Components series - Engage users and enhance waiting experiences with these simple recommendations. ux 🔥
Fun
Comic Mono - A legible monospace font... the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood. fonts
Tutorials
CSS display contents - Learn how to use display contents to build more fluid layouts. css
Videos
From Node.js to Deno: How It All Began - After your enthusiastic feedback on our Node.js documentary, we’re excited to present a special feature on Deno! Created by Ryan Dahl and Bert Belder, the innovative minds who contributed A LOT to Node.js (hell one even created Node.js), Deno represents a new chapter in the world of JavaScript runtimes. In this short documentary, we explore the origins of Deno, the motivations behind its development, and the valuable lessons learned along the way. deno
The Best Programmer I Know - GOTO 2024 engineering 🔥
Published on 2024-09-23, 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.
