urban weekly #102
weekly tech news so you don't have to read all the internet
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Map of Github - 400k projects visualized on a map github
State of Node.js Performance 2024 - This article exclusively compares Node.js versions without drawing parallels to other JavaScript runtimes. The intent is to highlight the platform's internal progress—its performance gains, regressions, and the factors driving these changes. nodejs, performance
15 Best Leadership Books - That made a better leader from me. leadership 🔥
Founder Mode and the Art of Mythmaking - What a read! rant, airbnb
After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code. - And by all, I mean everything: core product, failed pivots, miscellaneous scripts, deployment configurations, marketing website, and more. Hopefully the codebase is interesting or potentially helpful to somebody out there! startups
Warp for Windows - The modern terminal for developer productivity is coming to Windows soon. Be the first to know when it’s available to download. terminal, windows
State of JavaScript 2024 - Results are out! javascript 🔥
CSS Wishlist 2025 - CSS Wishlist time! css
Git - Beyond the Basics - Useful advanced git (and github) commands git
Read it! Read it! Read it!
React Like a Pro - 10 Things I Regret Not Knowing Earlier react, performance 🔥
Some of My Favorite Things – Postgres Queries - Very useful sql queries to check your postgres database. postgres 🔥
Code and Tools
nuqs - Type-safe search params state manager for React frameworks - Like useState, but stored in the URL query string. react 🔥
OG Image Maker - Template-based og image creator. images
SVG Repo - 500.000+ Open-licensed SVG Vector and Icons svgs, icons
Hero Patterns - A collection of repeatable SVG background patterns for you to use on your web projects. svgs, patterns
Background Image Remover - Upload your image and let our AI remove the background instantly. Perfect for professional photos, product images, and more. ai, background-remover, images
bolt.diy - Prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack web applications using any LLM you want! ai, llm
Leapcell - Build, Deploy, and Scale Your Applications with Ease. Experience Serverless Web Hosting, Serverless Redis, Asynchronous Tasks, and Robust Observability—all in one seamless platform. infra, serverless
IsometricShot - Create Isometric Screenshots images, isometric 🔥
OpenAuth - Universal, standards-based auth provider. auth
Genezio - Experience the autoscaling of near-zero latency serverless without rewriting your code. infra, serverless
PixiJS - Create beautiful digital content with the fastest, most flexible 2D WebGL renderer. images, webgl
Arcjet JS - Bot detection, rate limiting, email validation, attack protection, data redaction for Node.js, Next.js, Deno, Bun, Remix, SvelteKit, NestJS. headers, http
yadm - Yet Another Dotfiles Manager dotfiles
Musoq - SQL Syntax without any database search, sql
Superhero - Curated collection of beautiful website hero sections. hero, ui, gallery
JerryScript - Ultra-lightweight JavaScript engine for the Internet of Things. javascript, iot
Base UI - Unstyled UI components for building accessible web apps and design systems. ui
Vivus - JavaScript library to make drawing animation on SVG svgs 🔥
ni - Use the right package manager npm
Groq Appgen - Build a micro-app at Groq speed groq, ai 🔥
All about Design
Why I’m excited about text-box-trim as a designer - Json writes about the possibilities of text-box-trim in future! css
Logo Artists Reinterpreted 38 Of The Most Recognizable Logos With A Single Unbroken Line - French designer Stephane Leopold, co-founder of Loooop Studio, reimagines iconic logos in his project *One Line Famous Logos*, using a single, unbroken line to distill their essence. logos 🔥
Hackernews
SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs? - LLMs are becoming a part of software engineering career. ask-hn
Fun
Douglas Crockford Is Not Your Dad - I know what you've been told. Douglas Crockford said that JSON can't have comments. And you accepted that. Understandable mistake; we've all been there. json 🔥
Library of Babel - At present it contains all possible pages of 3200 characters, about 10^4677 books. characters
Tutorials
Build an API to Keep Your Marketing Emails Out of Spam - Use Apache SpamAssassin to check your email content. emails, spam
Videos
Getting to Two Million Users as a One Woman Dev Team - Brighton Ruby startups 🔥
Published on 2024-12-23, 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.
