urban weekly #68

The Best Product Engineering Org in the World - This is a transcript of my keynote presentation for the Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo conference on January 8th, 2025. engineering

27 Fundamental Techniques for Software Architects - Discover essential techniques for software architects to design modern systems, align with business goals, and manage stakeholders effectively. engineering

ANNOUNCE pig: The Postgres Extension Wizard - Enter Pig, a Go-based package manager built to tame Postgres and its ecosystem of 340+ extensions in one fell swoop. postgres

Why aren't we all serverless yet? - Discussing serverless serverless

Nix - Death by a thousand cuts - Experience of a user trying to get using Nix OS linux

How not to learn Rust - I've seen too many good programmers struggle learning Rust, or even give up. Here are the mistakes I've seen which may make you fail at learning Rust. I hope this list will help you avoid them. rust

Refactoring with Codemods to Automate API Changes - Practival examples given with jscodeshift engineering

I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too - I waste too much time scrolling through social media. It's bad for my health, so why do I keep doing it? rss hot

werk - werk is a simplistic build system, similar to make, and a command runner, similar to just. It tries to be very easy to use, and religiously portable. tools

Notion Faces - New year, new faces. avatar

Dockview - Zero dependency Docking Layout Manager. Supports Vanilla TypeScript, React and Vue. ui hot

txtlog - Txtlog.net is an easy to use text log tools

Flexoki - An inky color scheme for prose and code. colors

vite-plugin-mkcert - Use mkcert to provide certificate support for vite https development services. vite

GPU Glossary - Everything you need to know about GPUs gpu, glossary

FFmpeg By Example - FFmpeg By Example is a documentation website to showcase all the unique and different ways to use FFmpeg. ffmpeg

Motion Primitives - UI kit to make beautiful, animated interfaces, faster. Customizable. Open Source. ui, animations

Dust - A more intuitive version of du in rust linux, tools hot

Git Diagram - Turn any GitHub repository into an interactive diagram for visualization in seconds. github, visualization

The UX of login codes - I could do a deep dive into the UX of login codes, but I’ll do my best to keep it short. If your product texts/emails login codes, the experience better be amazing. login, ux

Software Folklore - Sometimes bugs have symptoms beyond belief. This is a collection of such stories from around the web. bugs

1-bit daily - Daily Pixel Art Challenge art

Clean up HTML Content for Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Readability.js - Scraping web pages is one way to fetch content for your retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) application. But parsing the content from a web page can be a pain. content