urban weekly #66

How I run LLMs locally - A HN user asked me0 how I run LLMs locally with some specific questions, I'm documenting it here for everyone. llms

Ten things in tech I found joy in during 2024 - Neil Brown posted about what brought him joy in computers and the Internet this year. I agree that it could be a cathartic exercise among the gloom and doom, so I thought I’d give it a shot as well. recap

People who are going to change the world - Including links to personal websites a twitter profile. people

My default apps of 2024 - Last year I was the 27th of four hundred and freaking eight people to write about their default apps, and I though it would be fun to turn this into a tradition and revisit the list to see if anything has changed since last year. engineering

Bun and S3 - Bun gets first-class support for S3. Upload, download, stream, and presign with 0 dependencies bun, s3 🔥

What Is a dependency? - For whatever reason, I’ve been thinking about dependencies lately. dependencies, engineering

If You Don’t Like Sales, Don’t Start a Company - Get comfortable with this reality. startups

Passkey technology is elegant, but it’s most definitely not usable security - Just in time for holiday tech-support sessions, here's what to know about passkeys. passkeys

Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases - Large established codebases are very different to side projects. engineering

What Will Happen In 2025 - 13 predictions by avc predictions

How To Manage Flaky Tests - Many projects suffer from the problem of flaky tests: tests that pass or fail non-deterministically. These cause confusion, slow development cycles, and endless arguments between individuals and teams in an organization. tests, engineering

I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps, and I can’t stop - How I tackled takeout, spices, and meal ideas with spreadsheets and Glide. apps

Notes on the new Deepseek v3 - Is it truly better than GPT-4o and 3.5 Sonnet? llms

Scaling from a Billion to a Million to One - Success leads to on-premise demands sometimes. engineering, startups

How I Use Claude - Claude is Anthropic’s AI, like ChatGPT but more capable. I was a casual user until the 23 October release (informally “Claude 3.6”), when it crossed a quality threshold I didn’t even know was there. It is really, really good. I have been using it a lot more since, and I got curious as to how much more. ai

Rules for Writing Software Tutorials - Most software tutorials are tragically flawed. docs, tutorials

The Productivity apps I use in 2024 - Always worth it reading these kind of lists like this one from Cassidy Williams productivity 🔥

Formatting dates and times in JavaScript with Temporal and the Internationalization API - The Temporal API is a much improved successor to the much-hated JavaScript Date object. .toString() returns Temporal dates and times in the ISO 8601 format. javascript, dates

Motion examples - Great if you want to start with motion! animations

Software Design is Knowledge Building - I think every software engineer knows a similar story. Very well written and on point! engineering 🔥

Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite - 24 insane facts! sqlite 🔥

Watcher - Minimal open source Screen-Time Tracker for Linux tracking, linux 🔥

Roadmap UI - Composable React components for building interactive roadmaps. ui

FooAPI - Dummy data for your projects, fast and simple. Users, products, posts, comments and more! api, fake-data 🔥

Tork - A distributed workflow engine workflows

Wirehook - No-nonsense stateless webhook tester webhooks 🔥

CodeGate - CodeGen Privacy and Security ai

API Parrot - API Parrot is the tool specifically designed to reverse engineer the HTTP APIs of any website. scraping, http

Pixels Market - 15,000+ free illustrations to power up your designs gallery

Zasper - Supercharged IDE for Data Science ide

BenchJS - Browser-based JavaScript benchmarking tool. javascript

tailwindcss-motion - tailwindcss-motion is a Tailwind CSS Plugin made at RomboHQ. It’s a simple, yet powerful, animation library with a simple syntax. tailwind 🔥

Midscene - Automate browser actions, extract data, and perform assertions using AI. It offers JavaScript SDK, Chrome extension, and support for scripting in YAML. ai, scraping 🔥

Best Data Visualization Projects of 2024 - Many datasets were analyzed and many charts were made this year. If I liked a project, it was on FlowingData. But only a handful can be the best. These are my favorite data visualization projects from 2024. visualizations

Building scalable ML workflows - Using Tork as workflow engine. tork, machine-learning

5 great design films you should watch right now - Epic and influential designers, both real and imagined, hit the screen. design 🔥

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Published on 2025-01-06, 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.