urban weekly #102
weekly tech news so you don't have to read all the internet
Good to know
Why are big tech companies so slow? - Big tech companies spend a lot of time and money building things that a single, motivated engineer could build in a weekend. engineering
How I Got Exploited At My First Startup - 11 months in The Side Hustle From Hell startups 🔥
How To Get Good at Strategy - Quick pointers for improving your strategic thinking as a leader strategy, leadership
How I'm Posting This Article Using Model Context Protocol (MCP) - Nice future ahead of us ;) mcp, ai
Storybook 9 is now in beta - Try the future of UI testing today ui, storybook
The Hidden Cost of AI Coding - tldr: lack of joy ai, engineering
From 0 to 10K Stars - How Open SaaS became the Free Boilerplate Devs Love oss
How I Created Perfect Wiki and Reached $250K in Annual Revenue Without Investors - In this article, I want to share how the idea came about, the mistakes I made, how I found my first customers, and how I gradually grew to a steady income of $250,000 a year over five years. startups
A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers - I store a lot of data in SQLite databases on remote servers, and I often want to copy them to my local machine for analysis or backup. sqlite, databases
A weekly mind meld - Writing to your team every week is a great way of building trust, calling out what's importantly, and letting people get to know you better. leadership 🔥
225. Systems Ideas that Sound Good But Almost Never Work— Let's just… - Some engineering patterns that sound good but almost never work as intended engineering
GSAP is now 100% FREE! - Thanks to Webflow GSAP is now 100% FREE including ALL of the bonus plugins like SplitText, MorphSVG, and all the others that were exclusively available to Club GSAP members. gsap 🔥
Converting values to strings in JavaScript - Converting values to strings in JavaScript is more complicated than it might seem. javascript
Read it! Read it! Read it!
The One-Person Framework in practice - How I built a seven-figure business with Rails business, engineering 🔥
Code and Tools
TmuxAI - AI-Powered, Non-Intrusive Terminal Assistant ai, cli
web-eval-agent - An MCP server that autonomously evaluates web applications. mcp, ai
mini-img-editor - Online webgl photo editor with effects, filters and cropping images 🔥
Flow Fields Pattern Generator - Generate flow fields patterns design, art
Website Headlines - Home of the internet's finest website headlines. gallery
Seyfert - the black magic Discord framework discord
Javascript Font Picker - An open source, free (as in beer), versatile, flexible and lightweight Javascript Font Picker Component for System fonts, Google fonts and custom (woff/ttf) fonts. fonts
bhvr - A monorepo template using Bun, Hono, Vite, and React framework, bun, hono, vite, react 🔥
Design Tokens Name Generator - Create consistent and scalable design token naming conventions for your design system design-tokens
Draggable Carousel - Carousel component with draggable functionality. carousel, draggable
LightUp - AI Insights Without Ever Leaving the Page chrome-extension
Context7 - Up-to-date documentation for LLMs and AI code editors docs, mcp, ai 🔥
Gemini Coder - Non-agentic 100% free & open source coding tool for AI-assisted programming. gemini, ai, vscode
All about Design
How to Stop People from Skipping Your Onboarding - Users land in your product, already confused. Not because your UX is broken—but because they skipped the onboarding copy you intentionally added. ux, onboarding 🔥
Good vs Great Animations - This article is a collection of practical tips to help you go from good to great animations. design, animations 🔥
The Future of Web Design - Will We Even Recognize It in 100 Years? design
Fun
Passport Photos - Not related to webdev at all, but it's a great photo series. passport 🔥
Tutorials
Blob shape with hover effect - Use the new shape() and create a cool CSS-only blob shape. css
It’s School time! Adventures in hacking kindle - Learn how to hack a Kindle and access its content. hacking, kindle
Turn any git repo into llm readable format - This post explains how to go through all files of a repo and put it into a readable format for large language models. llm, git, repo
Videos
Vite and the future of Frontend Tooling - The creator of VueJS and Vite will update us whats new on Vite, and give us more information about the future of Frontend Tooling. vite
Published on 2025-05-05, 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.
