urban weekly #7

67 Weird Debugging Tricks Your Browser Doesn't Want You to Know - A list of useful, not-obvious hacks to get the most out of your browser’s1 debugger. Assumes an intermediate-level-or-higher understanding of the developer tools. debugging

HTML First - It's like going back to the roots html

5 Skills the Best Engineers I Know Have in Common - Obvious, but good! skills

URL explained - The Fundamentals - Differences between URI, URL, URN, and URC. url

READme or READ-meh? 4 Tips & Tools to engage - Good tips! readme

The Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS - I love these insights saas, tech

Inside OpenAI: How does ChatGPT Ship So Quickly? - Since it arrived a year ago, ChatGPT has been shipping at breakneck speed. ai, openai

Node.js CLI Apps Best Practices - The largest Node.js CLI Apps best practices list nodejs, cli

Four Kinds of Optimisation - Good read! optimisation

My Journey to 3x Faster Builds: Trimming Barrel File Imports - Optimize your imports! imports

Google Search will let you leave and read ‘Notes’ on web pages - Sticky notes everywhere ;) google

Wasm By Example - Hands-on introduction to WebAssembly wasm

A faster web in 2024 - Good views! web, 2024

Vite 5.0 is out! - Next major version of Vite! vite

Prettier 3.1: New experimental ternaries formatting and Angular control flow syntax! - New minor version of prettier prettier

Navigating around in your shell - If you're using the shell, read this blog post. shell

Planning for unplanned work - All about the intro and outro of unplanned work. planning

Introducing Pitch 2.0: The future of visual business - Pitch is such a wonderful tool, now with AI pitch, ai

The Architecture Behind A One-Person Tech Startup - Super nice, very smart! saas

How to scale a large codebase - Good advices by Vercel, lots of things I'm personally also do since ages. Nevertheless a good read! structure, codebase

Traits I Value - by the CTO of Meta traits

deck.gallery - We curate nicely designed decks, slides, keynotes, guidelines — or whatever you call them. slide decks

usehooks-ts - React hook library, ready to use, written in Typescript. react, typescript

draw-a-ui - Draw a mockup and generate html for it tldraw, ai, html, tailwind

wavefront - Typeface for rendering waveform/data fonts, charts

Loro - Make your app state synchronized and collaborative effortlessly. Powered by CRDTs (Conflict-free replicated data type). Built for local-first software. crdt, loro

Recraft - Generative AI for professional design images, ai

getmac - Get the mac address of the current machine you are on via Node.js nodejs, mac

GPT Crawler - Crawl a site to generate knowledge files to create your own custom GPT from a URL ai, gpt, crawler

xmind copilot - Mindmaps with AI ai, mindmaps

react-datasheet-grid - An Airtable-like / Excel-like component to create beautiful spreadsheets. react, table, grid

Plasmic - Plasmic is an open-source platform for building production-grade apps, websites, and content incredibly fast, without compromise. Integrate with existing codebases. Break through the low-code ceiling. no-code

visx - visx a collection of expressive, low-level visualization primitives for React visualization

perfect-freehand - Super nice small app to quickly draw something images, vector, svg

ribbon-shapes - Get a CSS-only Ribbon Shape made with a single-element and customizable using CSS variables. css, ribbon

bug - A new way of working with Protocol Buffers. proto buffers

denoKV - A self-hosted backend for Deno KV deno

Plasmo - The Browser Extension Framework browser extensions

Screenshots to Code - Drop in a screenshot and convert it to clean HTML/Tailwind/JS code ai, code, screenshots

draw my ui - That's really really cool - use tldraw to draw a UI, set your OpenAPI key and see how it becomes real. ai, tldraw

vercel style guide - prettier, eslint und typescript config from vercel prettier, eslint, typescript

SVG Company Logos - A free collection of popular SaaS company logos in SVG format. Copy to your clipboard or download in SVG format. svg, logos

knock - Knock is flexible, reliable notifications infrastructure that's built to scale with you. notifications

Storefront - We curate the best digital storefronts on the internet. websites

HTMLrev - 1000+ free HTML templates websites, templates

Performing a Web Accessibility Audit - We all know accessibility is critical, but where to start? An audit will point you in the right direction. a11y

Nyan cat coworker - Nyan cat!!! meow

Glowy Border Shimmer Button - Looks hot! css, javascript

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Published on 2023-11-19, 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.