urban weekly #90

Anthropic: How we built our multi-agent research system. - OK, I'm sold on multi-agent LLM systems now. agents

The State of Engineering Leadership in 2025 - 600+ engineering leaders have shared their insights on how their roles are evolving! engineering, leadership

Beware The URL Type-Safety Iceberg - Type-safe URL state is only the visible part. There are more dangers below. urls, state

The 25 Micro-Habits of High-Impact Managers - Sharp folks from across the First Round community share the small habits that great managers do, including delivering feedback with care, opening up about failure, and sending praise up the chain. leadership 🔥

Lessons From 9 More Years of Tricky Bugs - Grouped in Coding, Testing, and Debugging. engineering, best-practices 🔥

Astro Integrations Explained - If you’ve ever used Astro, you will no doubt have come across Astro’s integration system. You can think of integrations like plugins: They’re pieces of code that add new functionality and behavior to your project. astro

Redis 8.0 - Next major version of Redis redis

Animating zooming using CSS - transform order is important… sometimes css, zoom

How the Google Cloud Outage Crashed the Internet - On June 12, 2025, a significant portion of the internet experienced a sudden outage. gcp, outage

What I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was Getting Into ARIA - Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) is an inevitability when working on web accessibility. That said, it’s everyone’s first time learning about ARIA at some point. aria

1fr 1fr vs auto auto vs 50% 50% - Are these columns the same? css, grid 🔥

Goodbye Upgrade Fatigue — How Cursor Upgraded Our Storybook in Just 2 Hours! - Upgrading dependencies is the kind of task everyone tries to avoid — especially when it involves a library like Storybook, known for frequent updates and breaking changes. cursor, ai

Reactivity is easy - Reactivity as a concept seems to be still misunderstood in the React ecosystem, and I wanted to provide a write-up of how we solved that problem in the MUI X Data Grid. react

Performance and Stress Testing in Node.js - In this article, you'll learn about stress and performance testing, why they're important, the best tools available, and how to use them in Node. nodejs, testing

How I Dropped the Production Database on a Friday Night - The case for moving fast and breaking things (before your competitors kill you) databases, incidents 🔥

The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles - Keynote for AI Engineer World's Fair llms, ai

Exploring JavaScript - ES2025 Edition javascript, typescript

The Brute Squad - Part 1 is tough: The Death of the IDE ai

What Would a Kubernetes 2.0 Look Like - Wish list for k8s 2.0 k8s

Things to avoid in JavaScript - Many inexperienced (or even not so) frontend and backend developers do mistakes which can lead to bugs or reliability issues. Here I am going to list the things that should probably be avoided to reduce the risk of errors. javascript 🔥

Path to CSS Shape - Convert SVG path data to CSS shape() function. css, svgs

Agent Rules - Rules and Knowledge to work better with agents such as Claude Code or Cursor ai, llms, agents

MCP Index - An ever growing list of open source MCP servers mcp

Glassmorphism CSS Generator - Get started with this free CSS generator based on the glassmorphism design specifications to quickly design and customize the style properties. css, glassmorphism

Things - Thiings is a growing collection of 2800+ free AI-generated 3D icons. icons

Canine - Power of Kubernetes, Simplicity of Heroku k8s, hosting 🔥

Motia - Unified Backend Framework for APIs, Events, and AI Agents ai, apis, events

Figlet.js - A FIG Driver written in JavaScript which aims to fully implement the FIGfont spec. figlet, fonts

Universal Rules Template for AI Coding Assistants - Elevate vibe coding to vibe engineering: Get consistent Github Copilot custom instructions, Cursor custom rules, Roo Code rules, Cline rules, Windsurf rules across AI assistants via a universal, managed template. Features vibe coding memory bank & best practices for large codebases. ai, rules

lstr - A fast, minimalist directory tree viewer, written in Rust. cli, tools

Eleventy LibDoc - An Eleventy starter project to craft slick and responsive documentation docs

GenKit - An open source framework for building AI-powered apps with familiar code-centric patterns. Genkit makes it easy to develop, integrate, and test AI features with observability and evaluations. Genkit works with various models and platforms. ai

darkmodejs - Utility package for managing Dark Mode on the web themes

Unregistry - Push docker images directly to remote servers without an external registry docker

One - One is a new React framework - target web and native with a single Vite plugin and fully shared code, so you can ship cross-platform nearly as easy as single-platform. framework, react

hurl - Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text. http 🔥

tiff - TIFF image decoder written entirely in JavaScript image

Harper - Offline, privacy-first grammar checker. Fast, open-source, Rust-powered grammar, checker 🔥

You're not a front-end developer until you've... - Do the Quiz! quiz 🔥

Building an Infinite Marquee Along an SVG Path with React & Motion - Learn how to create an infinite marquee that follows a custom SVG path using React and Motion. animations

Learn Makefiles - With the tastiest examples makefiles 🔥

The Creator of Hono on Bringing It to Node.js - In this session, I will talk about how we adapted Hono to run on Node.js, improved its performance, and the possibility that we will support Connect-compatible middleware. hono, nodejs

Being An Awful Leader In A Few Easy Steps - At JOTB25 leadership 🔥

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Published on 2025-06-23, last updated on 2025-08-25 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.