urban weekly #102
weekly tech news so you don't have to read all the internet
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The Architect's Guide to Micro-Frontends - A Deep Dive into Module Federation with React and Angular micro-frontends, react Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them) - I've built 12+ production AI agent systems across development, DevOps, and data operations. Here's why the current hype around autonomous agents is mathematically impossible and what actually works in production. ai, agents
Nobody Knows How To Build With AI Yet - The future of software development might just be jazz. Everyone improvising. Nobody following the sheet music. ai, engineering
Announcing SecretSpec - Declarative Secrets Management secrets, management 🔥
So many ranges, so little time - A cheatsheet of animation-ranges for your next scroll-driven animation animations, scroll
Frontend Performance Checklist - Our Frontend Performance Checklist is a comprehensive, platform-agnostic guide that enumerates key front‑end best practices and optimizations for maximizing website speed and efficiency. performance, checklist
Encrypting Files with Passkeys and age - Cool approach. encryption, passkeys 
Celebrating 20 years of MDN - This month, we're celebrating a big anniversary: 20 years of MDN. mdn 🔥
I Was Wrong About How I Spend My Coding Time - After tracking my own coding patterns for weeks, I discovered I was completely wrong about how I spend my time. Here's what the data revealed. engineering
Leading your engineers towards an AI-assisted future - It's about adopting AI in your engineering org. ai, engineering 🔥
Reanimated 4 Stable Release — the Future of React Native Animations - Next major release of Reanimated react
Storybook bloat? Fixed. - How we cut Storybook’s bundle size in half storybook 🔥
Faster Type-Aware Lint Rules - Biome vs. Oxlint linting, performance 
It’s time for modern CSS to kill the SPA - Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites. spa, css
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A Friendly Introduction to SVG - SVGs are one of the most exciting technologies we have access to in-browser. We can do so many cool things with SVG. It’s an absolutely critical part of my toolkit. svgs 🔥
Code and Tools
Subreply - Tiny, but mighty social network. social 
ccusage - A CLI tool for analyzing Claude Code usage from local JSONL files. claude, cli
LiftKit - Components from design to production ui
PogoCache - Fast caching software with a focus on low latency and cpu efficiency. cache 🔥
npq - safely install npm packages by auditing them pre-install stage npm, security
fluent-state - Fluent, reactive & immutable local state management for React. react, state
yt-transcriber - TUI app- Give it a YouTube URL and you get a transcription with possible speaker identification and optional summary or translation, all thanks to open-source AI tooling and my lack of enough free time to watch content-sparse YouTube videos youtube, ai, transcription
GrowField - A tiny, dependency-free JavaScript module for making textarea elements grow with their content. textarea 🔥
MCP UI - SDK for UI over MCP. Create next-gen UI experiences! mcps
tsbro - TypeScript for the Browser. No tooling, no build step, simply works. typescript
Asciinema - Record and share your terminal sessions, the simple way. terminal, recording 🔥
Tachi Code - A simple editor for raw text files based on the Monaco editor editors
theProtector - Linux Bash Script for the Paranoid Admin on a Budget - real-time monitoring and active threat response security, bash
Reagraph - Reagraph is a high-performance network graph visualization built in WebGL for React. network, visualization Gitleaks - Find secrets with Gitleaks secrets, git 🔥
Tattoy - A text-based compositor for modern terminals terminal, compositor
Tutorials
A Full Code Agent in 200 Lines - Here’s How ai, agents
Videos
Offline-first Architecture - How to survive without the internet? local-first
Next-Level Features Every Web Dev Should Know - Learn all the new features! css, html 🔥
Published on 2025-07-28, 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.
