urban weekly #79

React 19.1.0 - Introduction of Owner Stack! react

Is Vite faster than Turbopack? - tldr: it depends ;) vite, turbopack

Talking To Your Mailserver Is Not as Hard as You Think! - Learning how the IMAP protocol actually works imap

The manager I hated and the lesson he taught me - How a tough manager changed my approach to leadership (and why I’m grateful now) leadership, engineering

How to work in tech when your job isn't safe - Stop doing unpaid work & work like mad on crucial projects, then rest engineering

[email protected]: Now the Default on npm with LTS Timeline - It's happening! express

5 GitHub Actions every maintainer needs to know - With these actions, you can keep your open source projects organized, minimize repetitive and manual tasks, and focus more on writing code. github, ci

Making Makefiles for fun and profit - Make is a 48-year-old build automation tool that's still incredibly useful today. This post explains how Makefiles work, why they're awesome despite their cryptic syntax, and shows practical examples for modern development workflows. make

The WebAIM Million - The 2025 report on the accessibility of the top 1,000,000 home pages a11y, report

The Pragmatic Open Source Contributor - A cookbook to contribute to open source software. oss

Stacked PRs: Code Changes as Narrative - Stacked PRs work so well because they allow developers to construct a narrative with their PRs prs, engineering

The 13 software engineering laws - Hyrum's law, Conway’s law, Zawinski's law, and 10 others. engineering

Why I stopped using AI code editors - I chose to make using AI a manual action, because I felt the slow loss of competence over time when I relied on it, and I recommend everyone to be cautious with making AI a key part of their workflow. ai

React Email 4.0 - A completely new set of tools to help you build better emails. emails

xan - The CSV magician csv

SVGFM - A node graph builder for SVG filters svg

TailwindFlex - Tailwind CSS Components Library tailwind

Illustrations SaaS UI - 220+ Illustrations for Your Design Systems and Docs illustrations

Web SVG - Web SVG Images: Everything you need for your digital craft & design projects. Find free SVG icons, SVG animations, and SVG tutorials to get you going. svgs

Flexile - Payroll & equity for everyone. equity, payroll

svggles - Interactive illustrations made easy svgs

The Return of the UX Generalist - AI advances make UX generalists valuable, reversing the trend toward specialization. Understanding multiple disciplines is increasingly important. career

How to set up TypeScript with Node.js and Express - Pretty basic but useful! nodejs, express, typescript