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urban weekly #73

urban weekly #73

Good to know

Create contextual console loggers - Use different console loggers for different contexts. logs
Small Tech - I frequently see debates about whether it's better to be a cog at a giant semi-monopoly, or to take investment money in the hopes of one day growing to be head cog at a giant semi-monopoly. career
To avoid being replaced by LLMs, do what they can't - It’s a strange time to be a software engineer. Large language models are very good at writing code and rapidly getting better. llms, engineering
ESLint now officially supports linting of CSS - Taking our next step towards providing a language-agnostic platform for source code linting. eslint, css
Astro 5.3 - Next minor release of Astro astro
My LLM codegen workflow atm - tl:dr; Brainstorm spec, then plan a plan, then execute using LLM codegen. Discrete loops. Then magic. llm
Parsing JSON in 500 lines of Rust - Let Krish guide you through how to build a json parser in Rust. rust
How I Migrated from WordPress to Astro - I migrated my blog from WordPress to Astro in 3 days! astro

Code and Tools

Typia - Super-fast/easy runtime validators and serializers via transformation typescript, validators hot
Awesome CursorRules - A curated list of awesome .cursorrules files cursor
Video Compressor - Compress videos right in the browser by up to 90% for free. No upload needed. compression, videos
fixi.js - fixi.js is an experimental, minimalist implementation of generalized hypermedia controls html
Scira - Scira (Formerly MiniPerplx) is a minimalistic AI-powered search engine that helps you find information on the internet. Powered by Vercel AI SDK! Search with models like Grok 2.0. ai, search
Create React App for TanStack Router - Create-tsrouter-app is drop-in replacement for create-react-app that builds TanStack Router based SPA applications react, tanstack, vite
reactbits - Hand-picked animated components collection for creative developers react, ui, components hot
LaLoka Layouts - Useful layouts for Tailwind CSS tailwind
RelaGit - The elegant solution to graphical version control. git
TypeConf - A Typescript tool to write configs with types. Manage your configs as code. Remove type errors, make configs easily shareable. Tool is installable via NPM, can be adopted incrementally! typescript, config

Fun

The 88x31 GIF Collection - A collection of 4540 classic 88x31 buttons from the 1990s, 2000s, and today in GIF format. gifs

Tutorials

Creating a Fun CSS Party Popper Animation - Learn how to create a custom loading animation. css, animations
Anchoreum - A game for learning CSS anchor positioning css
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Published on 2025-02-24, last updated on 2025-02-20 by Adam
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Adam Urban

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.