urban weekly #56

The future of Postgres? - Postgres and its great extensions will shape the future. databases

Software Engineer Titles Have (Almost) Lost All Their Meaning - Examining the Devaluation of Software Engineer Titles and Its Impact on Tech Industry Integrity engineering

Unlocking the Power of JSON Patch - JSON Patch is a standardized format defined in RFC 6902 for describing how to modify a JSON document. It was created to address the need for a simple, efficient, and standardized way to apply partial updates to resources, especially over HTTP. json

Promise.try() - New experimental function. javascript

How to fork - Best practices and guide git, forking

Introducing Express v5: A New Era for Node.js Framework - Finally the official blog post about express v5 express

State of the software engineering job market in 2024 - A deep dive into job market trends, the companies and cities hiring the most software engineers, growth areas, and more. Exclusive data and charts engineering 🔥

How we built a new powerful JSON data type for ClickHouse - JSON has become the lingua franca for handling semi-structured and unstructured data in modern data systems. Whether it’s in logging and observability scenarios, real-time data streaming, mobile app storage, or machine learning pipelines, JSON’s flexible structure makes it the go-to format for capturing and transmitting data across distributed systems. json

What docs as code really means - What does docs-as-code really mean beyond the ability of building the docs from text files and versioning them using git? docs

Results of State of CSS 2024 - See the survey results. css

Help us choose the final syntax for Masonry in CSS - I like how they want to get the community involved. css, masonry

Next.js 15 - Next major release of Next.js nextjs

WebStorm and Rider Are Now Free for Non-Commercial Use - We’re excited to announce a change in our licensing model that we believe will benefit the developer community – WebStorm and Rider are now free for non-commercial use! webstorm

Smarter than 'Ctrl+F' - Linking Directly to Web Page Content text-fragments 🔥

Do's and Don'ts of Commenting Code - What are the best (and worst) comments you can write in code, particularly when working on a project with a team including more developers? This article will show you what’s good (and what’s not!) so you can embrace best practices for commenting. comments, engineering

Chakra v3 - Next major release of the popular UI components ui

Some important learnings from my 20 years of engineering life - Ten learnings about engineering engineering 🔥

Why I’m skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in “faster” languages - It's about performance, contributions and debuggability tools 🔥

Spare Cores - Harnessing the compute resources of the cloud to optimize efficiency and costs of batch and service tasks. costs, cloud 🔥

Wireit - Wireit upgrades your npm/pnpm/yarn scripts to make them smarter and more efficient. npm, scripts 🔥

Tailwind Gradient Generator - Effortlessly generate and customize gradients with user-friendly tools. Just select, copy, and paste the code—your Tailwind Gradient Generator does all the hard work for you! Perfect for vibrant designs. tailwind, gradients

vacuum - vacuum is the worlds fastest OpenAPI 3, OpenAPI 2 / Swagger linter and quality analysis tool. Built in go, it tears through API specs faster than you can think. vacuum is compatible with Spectral rulesets and generates compatible reports. swagger, openapi

Vale - A markup-aware linter for prose built with speed and extensibility in mind. linter

Civet - A TypeScript superset that favors more types and less typing typescript

Color Thief - Grab the color palette from an image using just Javascript. Works in the browser and in Node. colors

Rust Web Framework - Comprehensive framework for building web applications in Rust. rust

ryde - ryde is a single person, single file web framework for rust rust

Khoshnus - Craft Beautiful Handwritten SVG Text Animations svg

Toolpad - Full stack components and low-code builder for dashboards and internal apps. react

GenAIScript - Automatable GenAI Scripting ai

Medusa - The world's most flexible commerce platform. ecommerce

match-sorter - Simple, expected, and deterministic best-match sorting of an array in JavaScript matching

Vizzu - Library for animated data visualizations and data stories. charts, animation

Rsbuild - The Rspack-based build tool. It's fast, out-of-the-box and extensible. tools

Awesome Docs - A crowdsourced, open-source gallery for high-quality dev docs. docs

ApiHub - Your own API Hub to learn and master API interaction. Ideal for frontend, mobile dev and backend developers. apis

The biggest font trends to look out for in 2025 - From a sans-serif backlash to neo-retro revivals, our experts predict a diverse typographic landscape for the coming year. fonts

UX is a joke, and it’s inexcusable - Designer Mathew Wilson on why we should worry that bad user experience has become a punchline. ux 🔥

new CSS logo? - Nice to see the discussion and proposals about a new CSS logo css

Why does man print gimme gimme gimme at 00:30? - Nice easter egg in man command - unfortunately already removed. cli

Is my blue your blue? - Check how you see blue and green. colors 🔥

Web3 Is Going Just Great - Best known for puncturing blockchain/crypto hype with her Web3 Is Going Just Great project, writer/researcher Molly White believes a better web is possible. web3

Writer/Researcher - Writer/researcher Erin Kissane is working to build better and safer networks for collective survival, with efforts including the COVID Tracking Project, a powerful 40,000 word analysis of Meta’s role in the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar, and current research into the culture and governance of the next wave of social networks. covid

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Published on 2024-10-25, 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.