urban weekly #102
weekly tech news so you don't have to read all the internet
Good to know
Poison everywhere: No output from your MCP server is safe - Never blindly use any MCP server! mcp, security
MCP vs API - Comparison of MCP and API mcp, api
Field Notes From Shipping Real Code With Claude - Vibe Coding Isn’t Just a Vibe ai, vibe-coding 🔥
Self-Host & Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own - A personal journey. personal, self-hosting 🔥
AI Coding Agents - Tracking the performance of the various coding agents. ai, performance
LLMs are cheap - You get 1M tokens for cents for some LLMs. llms, costs 
One Man Armies - Great list of outstanding people. inspiration, performance 🔥
Real-world engineering challenges: building Cursor - Cursor has grown 100x in load in just a year, sees 1M+ QPS for its data layer, and serves billions of code completions, daily. A deepdive into how it’s built with cofounder, Sualeh Asif cursor
Upcoming JavaScript Features You Should Know About - Some great new features coming to JavaScript. javascript, features 🔥
Making eyesite - I wanted Apple Vision Pros, but I don’t have $3,500 in my back pocket. So I made Apple Vision Pros at home. eyes, javascript
EU launches EU-based, privacy-focused DNS resolution service - DNS4EU, an EU-based DNS resolution service created to strengthen European Union’s digital sovereignty, has become reality. dns, eu Announcing Multigres - Vitess for Postgres postgres, databases
How to Design APIs for an AI World - A thorough analysis of how AI changes what is needed from a good API, with real-world examples + some speculations about the future. apis, ai, design 🔥
Yes, Sentry has an MCP Server (...and it’s pretty good) - MCP server for your Sentry integration. mcp, sentry
Is All Micromanagement Bad? Here's How the Best Startup Leaders Balance Details and Delegation - Founders and execs from Apple, Rippling, Carta and more share their strategies for altitude shifting as a manager. leadership
Announcing Oxlint 1.0 - The first stable version Oxlint has been released! linters 
pnpm 10.12 Introduces Global Virtual Store and Expanded Version Catalogs - pnpm 10.12.1 introduces a global virtual store for faster installs and new options for managing dependencies with version catalogs. pnpm 🔥
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It’s The End Of Observability As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - How AI is chaging how we analyze data. observability, ai 🔥
Code and Tools
container - A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It's written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon. containerization
Listmonk - High performance, self-hosted, newsletter and mailing list manager with a modern dashboard. Single binary app. newsletters 🔥
sapiens.website - A curated collection of unique individuals across the internet, giving everyone a chance to be seen, appreciated, and connected. gallery
CoverDrop - Blowing the whistle through a news app messaging
Obra Icons - A simple, consistent set of icons, perfect for user interfaces. icons
Orange ORM - The ultimate ORM for Node and Typescript orm, databases 
tz-lookup - JavaScript Library for Timezone Lookup by Location timezone, javascript 🔥
Fulldev UI - The Astro UI library to build content sites astro, ui 🔥
SmoothUI - SmoothUI is a collection of beautifully designed components with smooth animations built with React, Tailwind CSS, and Motion ui, tailwind, motion, react Spark - An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for THREE.js 3d, threejs
Somo - A human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring on Linux. linux, monitoring
Line Numbers - A web component to add line numbers next to various HTML elements tools
Chatterbox - SoTA open-source TTS tts, speech, ai
ICONIC - A developer-oriented library of sleek, bubble-shaped skill icons designed for GitHub READMEs, portfolios, and resumes. icons
Fun
Locked - Crack the code before your opponent. Two players. Four digits. One winner. Enter the real-time code-breaking battle. games
DeskHog - DeskHog is an open-source, 3D printed, palm-sized slice of developer joy posthog
Tutorials
Mastra Course - Learn how to build agents mastra, ai, agents
3D Cube With CSS - This is not only a great tutorial, but also a great article! 3d, css 🔥
Scroll-Driven Letter Grid - Nice effect! css, scrolling
Printing the web - Making webpages look good on paper printing
Published on 2025-06-16, 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.
