urban weekly #102
weekly tech news so you don't have to read all the internet
Good to know
11 best open-source web crawlers and scrapers in 2024 - A good list of srapers to consider if you're in the need of one. scrapers
Leaving Stripe - Working at stripe stripe, career 🔥
Y Combinator Application Guide - Advice on the YC application from YC alum yc
Grok API Public Beta - Starting today, developers can build on our Grok foundation models using our newly released API. grok, ai
I've had a change of heart regarding employee metrics - Manager giving up on metrics leadership
Please just stop saying just - Observing the same, and I'm one of those doing it as well some times. But Scott is right here, it shouldn't be used in any case. engineering
Always Be Launching - Because tbh no one gives a shit about your new product, anyway products
What are the odds? - Do you worry about UUID collisions? Your data center is more likely to be destroyed in a nuclear strike. Prioritize what matters. uuids
Monorepo - Our experience - Nine months ago, we switched to a monorepo. Here I describe our experience with the switch so far. monorepo
What's a Single-Page App? - The web development community talks a lot about single-page apps, but are we all on a single page? spa 🔥
JavaScript's ??= Operator: Default Values Made Simple - A guide to using ??= in JavaScript to handle null and undefined values elegantly javascript, operators
Hacking cars in JavaScript - Running replay attacks in the browser with the HackRF hacks
7 simple habits of the best engineers I know - How great software engineers maintain outperformance engineering 🔥
Read it! Read it! Read it!
How to become a more effective engineer - The importance of soft skills, implicit hierarchies, getting to “small wins”, understanding promotion processes and more. career, engieering 🔥
Code and Tools
NocoDB - NocoDB allows building no-code database solutions with ease of spreadsheets. databases
Cash - An absurdly small jQuery alternative for modern browsers. dom, javascript
pqoqubbw/icons - an open-source collection of smooth animated icons for your projects icons
Someday - Free to host and open-source cal.com / calendly alternative built on Google-Apps-Script for Gmail users. Built with modern technologies like React, TypeScript, Shadcn/UI, and Vite. calendar, calendly
CSV SQL Tool - Run SQL queries on CSV files directly in your browser. No data leaves your browser. csv, sql
HTML to React & Figma by Magic Patterns - Chrome Extension to convert what you find on any website into a React component. react, chrome
NPM Chart - Search for a package to see its download stats over time. npm, stats
yauzl - yet another unzip library for node nodejs, zip
Click to Component - Option+Click React components in your browser to instantly open the source in VS Code react 🔥
skellyCSS - A light-weight CSS framework to quickly implement skeletons into your projects. skeletons
npmpackage.info - Discover detailed information about npm packages. npm 🔥
BemiDB - Postgres read replica optimized for analytics analytics
varse - A fast application config manager config
Draw.Audio - Draw.Audio is a free musical sketch-pad for exploring ideas in sound. It was made using the Web Audio API. audio
React GJS Renderer - A React renderer for the Gnome JS. It provides components and methods allowing to use React to build native Gnome GTK applications. react, gnome
World in Dots - Create vector dotted maps with custom options and download them as SVG or PNG files maps 🔥
All about Design
Designing For Gen Z: Expectations And UX Guidelines - There are many myths revolving around Gen Z and how they use tech. Time to take a look at actual behavior patterns that go beyond heavy use of social media. ux 🔥
Design Principles - An open source collection of Design Principles and methods. principles
Fun
Interview gone wrong - How Python can confuse us ;) python, interview 🔥
Tutorials
Animation in the browser console - Use of svg animations as background console, svg 🔥
HLS Video Transcoder - Streaming video on Cloudflare R2 cloudflare
How to Create an AI-Powered Newsletter Aggregator with React and AI Agents - Get started with AI agents in this practical tutorial and learn to build an AI-powered newsletter aggregator using React and KaibanJS. ai, kaibanjs
Generating Random Mazes with JavaScript - I didn’t get a chance to hit the pumpkin patch this year, so I missed out on seeing any corn mazes. To make up for it, I decided to make some mazes of my own! Being a programmer, I over-engineered it and built a random maze generator! maze
Videos
Atlas Goes Hands On - The interesting part is that Atlas is acting completely autonomously. robots 🔥
Published on 2024-11-11, 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.
