urban weekly #77

Building Websites With LLMS - And by LLMS I mean: (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(S). animations

Local-First & Ejectable - An important requirement to ensure you can fully access your data in cloud apps forever is making the backend sync server available for local self-hosting. That's what EJECTABLE apps are about. local-first, ejectable hot

How GitHub engineers learn new codebases - Strategies to quickly get up to speed, whether you’re a seasoned engineer or a newcomer to the field. learning, codebases hot

Sync Engines are the Future - The modern browser is an OS. Modern web app is a distributed app. So any web app developer is facing a well-known, well-understood, notoriously hard problem: syncing data. local-first

Oxlint Beta - We are thrilled to announce that Oxlint is now in beta release, after more than a year of development by the community! linting, rust hot

React Trends in 2025 - Every year I discuss the most important trends in the world of React. react

Runtime compatibility - Display APIs compatibility across different JavaScript runtimes. The data is retrieved from runtime-compat-data, based on MDN's format. runtime, compatibility hot

The Great ESLint v9 Migration Adventure - A Developer's Survival Guide eslint

How I’ve run major projects - An attempt to describe my playbook for when I’m being intense about project management. projects, engineering hot

Docs - A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales. Built with Django and React. Opensource alternative to Notion or Outline. docs, collab

Easing Wizard - CSS easing functions made easy css, animation

uchu - the color palette for internet lovers colors

Protect.js - Encrypt and protect data using industry standard algorithms, field level encryption, a unique data key per record, bulk encryption operations, and decryption level identity verification. encryption, security

OTPAuth - One Time Password (HOTP/TOTP) library for Node.js, Deno, Bun and browsers. otp, authentication

oRPC - Typesafe APIs Made Simple apis, typescript

git-who - Git blame for file trees git, blame

Bright - React Server Component for syntax highlighting react, highlighting

GIMP 3.0 Released - At long last, the first release of GIMP 3.0 is here! gimp hot

Konva - Konva.js is an HTML5 Canvas JavaScript framework that extends the 2d context by enabling canvas interactivity for desktop and mobile applications. canvas, animation hot

bknd - Lightweight Firebase/Supabase alternative built to run anywhere — incl. Next.js, Remix, Astro, Cloudflare, Bun, Node, AWS Lambda & more. frameworks

Special HTML Symbols - Explore and copy a wide range of HTML symbols to enhance your designs, improve readability, and add unique characters to your projects symbols, html

FarbVélo - FarbVélo (Swiss-German for color bicycle) is a playful color picking tool. colors

hey - HTTP load generator, ApacheBench (ab) replacement benchmarking, load-testing

Make Bookmarklets - Easily create bookmarklets bookmarklets

HPKV - High Performance Key-Value Store kv, persistence hot

Creating Animated Accordions with the Details Element and Modern CSS - Accordions are everywhere these days. GitHub has them on their home page right now. Figma ships them, too. I've implemented so many custom accordions that I can't count them. css hot

How to get deep traces in your Node.js backend with OTel and Deno - One important facet of running production software is observability—monitoring logs, traces, and metrics so you can identify and fix issues quickly. deno, opentelemetry

A Deep Dive into the Inline Background Overlap Problem - A tweet by Lucas Bonomi got me thinking about this problem: how to get a semitransparent background following some inline text with padding, but without the overlap problem that can be seen in the image below. css