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 hot

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 hot

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 hot

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

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

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 hot

Tork - A distributed workflow engine workflows

Wirehook - No-nonsense stateless webhook tester webhooks hot

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 hot

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 hot

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 hot