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urban weekly #62

urban weekly #62

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Kubernetes on Hetzner - How I cut infrastructure costs by 75% and increased compute by 2x. k8s, kubernetes, hetzner hot
15 Lessons From 15 Years of Indie App Development - The first lesson is my favorite. indie
The design of getting hired - On knowing your audience, clarity over cleverness, and why slow is smooth resumes, applications
Undici v7 is here - Major release of the popular http client nodejs, http
How GenAI is reshaping tech hiring - Large language models are forcing tech hiring managers to adapt software engineering interview processes, fast. We look into how this is happening, and what to expect in the near future interviews
Egoless Engineering - Very interesting read! engineering
How To Improve INP: React - In-depth article on which patterns can be uses to improve Interaction-to-Next-Paint (INP) when using React. react, inp, performance
Astro 5.0 - Next major release of Astro has landed! astro hot
Don't Fuck With Scroll - Ten reasons not to change the regular scroll behavior. scrolling
Why we switched to Astro (and why it might interest you) - Story about migrating from Next.js to Astro. astro
How to Grow Professional Relationships - Tejas shares his spectrum how he measures professional relationships. engineering, collaboration
The Cloud Container Iceberg - This guide serves two purposes: to showcase the surprising breadth of container options available today, and to help you understand the full spectrum of choices – from practical to very experimental. containers
React v19 - Next major release of React react hot
CSS Wrapped 2024 - Chrome and CSS in 2024 journeyed through the forest, over the mountains, and across the seas... css
Why Do Open Source Applications Often Have Less Polished UIs Than Commercial Software - Open-source applications play a critical role in technology, offering powerful tools, innovation, and community-driven development. However, many users have noticed that the user interfaces (UIs) of open-source software often lack the polish and finesse of their commercial, closed-source counterparts. oss
The next platform - As someone who has built a career on Kubernetes, I'm always thinking about what "the next platform" is (for job security purposes). platform, k8s
Introducing the Prompt Engineering Toolkit - A framework to get accurate and relevant outputs from LLMs. llms, ai
The Cold Email Handbook - Playbook for cold outbound emails. marketing

Read it! Read it! Read it!

If Not React, Then What? - Frameworkism isn't delivering. The answer isn't a different tool, it's the courage to do engineering. frameworks, react hot

Code and Tools

Steel - Open Source Browser API for AI Agents & Apps. Steel Browser is a batteries-included browser instance that lets you build automate the web without worrying about infrastructure. ai, api, browsers
Glyph Neue - Beautiful icons icons
LaTeX.css - LaTeX.css is a CSS library that makes your website look like a LaTeX document css
SeekStorm - sub-millisecond full-text search library & multi-tenancy server in Rust search, rust
Perfectionist - Take Your Code to a Beauty Salon code, beautifier
Skia Canvas - A GPU-accelerated 2D graphics environment for Node.js canvas, nodejs
Legend State - Legend-State is a super fast and powerful state library that enables fine-grained reactivity and easy automatic persistence state, react
Feather Icons - Simply beautiful open source icons icons
giscus - A comments system powered by GitHub Discussions. Let visitors leave comments and reactions on your website via GitHub! Heavily inspired by utterances. comments, github hot
react-verification-input - Customizable, masked input for React. react, component
React Bluesky Embed - Embed Bluesky UI into your application like posts, comments, and profiles react, component, bluesky
Tailwind Colors - All the Tailwind CSS colors in a handy cheatsheet with hex, hsl and rgb values. colors, tailwind
Kinesis.js - A library that offers a suite of components to create engaging animations and transformations based on user interactions like mouse movements, scroll events, and even audio input. animations
Spark UI - Experience The Magic Of Animated Components. Crafted With Vue, TypeScript, TailwindCss And Vueuse Motion ui hot
Markwhen - Make a cascading timeline from markdown-like text. Supports simple American/European date styles, ISO8601, images, links, locations, and more. markdown, timeline
Outerbase Studio - A lightweight Database GUI in your browser. It supports connecting to Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite. databases
Surreal Cloud - The Cloud for everyone infra, cloud hot
Radon IDE - Radon IDE is a VSCode and Cursor extension that turns your editor into a fully featured IDE for React Native and Expo. ide
Linkify - JavaScript plugin for finding links in plain-text and converting them to HTML <a> tags. javascript, links
Checkmate - Checkmate is an open-source, self-hosted tool designed to track and monitor server hardware, uptime, response times, and incidents in real-time with beautiful visualizations. monitoring
Browser Sandboxing - An online browser sandbox, also known as an online URL sandbox, lets you securely and safely open a website that you don't trust in a browser that runs in an isolated environment outside of your network. security, sandbox hot
BoldSign - Easily collect legally binding eSignatures online from our app or yours. An enterprise-grade electronic signature application and API with all the bells and whistles at an affordable price. signatures
Agree.com - Securely send and sign any agreement with AI-powered workflows, free e-signature, automated invoicing, and integrated payments. signatures

All about Design

The File Folder Structure Every Designer Needs - Keep it clean. files hot

Tutorials

Creating a TypeScript CLI for Your Monorepo - Useful tool to get quick access to recurring actions. cli, typescipt
Frosted Glass from Games to the Web - Create a nice blur effect. css

Videos

Building advanced workflows with AWS Step Functions (API402) - AWS re:Invent 2024 aws, workflows
One Framework To Rule Them All: Faster Websites With Astro - Presented at All Things Open 2024 astro hot
London TypeScript Community Meetup - All four great talks. typescript
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Published on 2024-12-09, last updated on 2025-01-17 by Adam
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Adam Urban

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.