urban weekly #82

My Backend Stack Is Just TypeScript + Postgres. Here’s Why That’s Enough - Most people overthink their backend way too early. You start building a new product and suddenly you’re researching Kafka, Redis, background workers, message queues, analytics pipelines, caching layers, and five microservices. But if you're being honest, you probably don’t need most of that. typescript, postgres

Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding - Claude Code is a command line tool for agentic coding. This post covers tips and tricks that have proven effective for using Claude Code across various codebases, languages, and environments. ai, claude

Better error handling - This blog posts suggests using go-style tuple responses for error handling go, errors

How I use Kate Editor - I wanted to go over my workflow with it, why I like it so much and hopefully get more people to try it out. kate, editor

Managing Underperformers - Kind managers address underperformance early and accurately. leadership 🔥

7 Phrases I use to make giving feedback easier for myself - Here are phrases I often use when sharing feedback because it makes it easier for me to speak openly and quickly, and encourages my recipient to take action. feedback

Dependency-free Command-Line Apps powered by Node.js core modules - Argument parser, console text styler, logs. nodejs, core-modules 🔥

The Best Node.js Observability Tools in 2025 - N-Solid vs New Relic, Datadog, and More monitoring

Hyperwood - Open Source Furniture furniture 🔥

Tailwind vs Linaria: Performance Investigation - Investigating performance of Tailwind vs Linaria frameworks, with a focus on initial load and interaction performance. tailwind, linaria

Newfangled Browser Alternatives - What browsers are out there besides the big three? browser, alternatives

What Is llms.txt, and Should You Care About It? - Developers and marketers are being told to add llms.txt files to their sites to help large language models (LLMs) understand their content. But what exactly is llms.txt, who’s using it, and—more importantly—should you care? llms

YAGRI - You are gonna read it engineering

React Labs - View Transitions, Activity, and more react

How I write my blogs in Obsidian and publish instantly - Nice workflow to write and publish blogs in Obsidian and publish instantly. obsidian, hugo, cloudflare

On expressions' reordering in Postgres - Let's discuss micro-optimisations postgres, sql

On loyalty to your employer - Criteria for evaluating loyalty to your employer. engineering, career

Hiring Great People - Look for curiosity hiring, engineering

A Decade of SolidJS - The Journey of SolidJS and some learnings by the creator. solidjs, oss

Time Travel with JavaScript - Using a powerful animation trick to create a 3D split flap display javascript, animation 🔥

Leading From The Front - Don't look back. leadership 🔥

@mcp-it/fastify - Automatically generate MCP tools from your Fastify API routes. mcp, fastify

MCP Containers - Containerized versions of hundreds of MCP servers mcp

tweakcn - A visual no-code theme editor for shadcn/ui components shadcn-ui

Sidekick (Beta) - Your agentic CLI developer ai

Font Tester - Pick fonts for your website withiout breaking your head. Test fonts on live websites fonts

zodest - Modern Zod-based CLI builder, fully type-safe, super lightweight and flexible. cli, zod

RampenSau - Color palette generation function using hue cycling and simple easing functions. colors

Nerdlog - Fast, remote-first, multi-host TUI log viewer with timeline histogram and no central server log, cli

AutoKitteh - Durable workflow automation in just a few lines of code workflow, automation

European alternatives for digital products - We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products. saas 🔥

Rowboat - AI-powered multi-agent builder ai, agents

Spectacle - A React-based library for creating sleek presentations using JSX syntax that gives you the ability to live demo your code. react, presentations

React Three Map - Use React and Three.js inside Mapbox and Maplibre map, three.js

SolidStart - The Solid app framework solidjs

Legend List - A high-performance list component for React Native react-native, list

Moose - The developer framework for your data & analytics stack analytics 🔥

tsdown - The elegant bundler for libraries powered by Rolldown bundler, libraries

zev - A simple CLI tool to help you remember terminal commands ai, cli 🔥

node-mlx - Machine learning framework for Node.js. machine-learning

Colanode - Open-source and local-first Slack and Notion alternative that puts you in control of your data collaboration

p5.js - p5.js is a client-side JS platform that empowers artists, designers, students, and anyone to learn to code and express themselves creatively on the web. It is based on the core principles of Processing. graphics, processing

Design Isn’t Dead. You Sound Dumb - The problem of clueless critics, inflated egos, and AI panic design 🔥

Fun fatigue – is formality returning in branding? - Amid faltering public trust and a flood of AI slop, Mother Design's Alec Mezzetti asks if brands are abandoning the informal aesthetics of the mass casual era. design

CSS Hell - 15 unimaginably torturous CSS puzzles css 🔥

CSS view-timeline shine effect - Pretty cool scroll effect css

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Published on 2025-04-28, 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.