urban weekly #10

The 500 Highest Paying Companies (for Software Engineers) - The top 500 highest paying companies based on median software engineer total comp on levels.fyi as of 12/1/23. jobs

A Tech Conference Listed Fake Speakers for Years: I Accidentally Noticed - For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent software engineers representing Coinbase and Meta as featured speakers. When were they added and what could have the motivation been? fake, conference

What happens when cookie banners are poorly designed? - An examination of cookie popups and why they should be designed cookies

Spotify jumps after saying it will cut 17% of workforce — read the full memo from CEO Daniel Ek - That's about 1500 jobs spotify

How Google takes the pain out of code reviews, with 97% dev satisfaction - A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique), AI-powered improvements, and recent statistics google review

Are Passkeys really the beginning of the end of passwords? I certainly hope not! - Opinion about passkeys, essentially it's about a lock-in to an OS passkeys

Getting better feedback on your work - Feedback is important feedback

Leading Successful Product Teams - 17 tipps teams, collab

Examples of Great URL Design - If you struggle with good url design, check this blog post. urls

12 lessons from 5 years of running a tech meetup - Great lessons! meetups

Firefox on the brink? - The Big Three may effectively be down to a Big Two, and right quick. firefox

What is JWT? - New to JSON web token? Read this. jwt

Introducing StyleX - StyleX takes the developer experience of CSS-in-JS libraries and uses compile-time tooling to bridge it with the performance and scalability of static CSS. react, css

Astro 4.0 - Next major release of Astro astro

JSONB has landed - More performant json functions for SQLite dbs sqlite, json

How to Build a Personal Brand as a Developer - Why more and more developers are investing in building a strong personal brand? The benefits may worth the trouble! personal brand

Bring code from other platforms into the browser - wasm ftw! wasm

vitest 1.0.0 - Major release of vitest! vitest

Storybook 7.6 - Minor release of Storybook storybook

Introducing the ngrok JavaScript SDK - Oh, that's neat for a lots of use cases! ngrok, javascript

The Complete Puppeteer Cheatsheet - The overview I was always looking for. puppeteer

I replaced npm, yarn and nvm with pnpm - Did the same some months ago, didn't regret! pnpm

Engineers' Guide to Feedback - Nothing really new, but a good sumup from my PoV feedbacks

Mounting git commits as folders with NFS - Nice hint how to go through your git commits git

PocketBase - Open Source backend for your next SaaS and Mobile app in 1 file backend, saas

lemon squeezy - Payments, tax & subscriptions for software companies payment, subscriptions

quicktype - JSON to (TypeScript) structs typescript

SVG viewBox - A creative coding lesson. How the SVG ViewBox works svg

Onsites.fyi - Learn from hundreds of real tech interview experiences! interviews

type hero - Connect, collaborate, and grow with a community of TypeScript developers. typescript

lowstorage - Simple, zero-dependency, object pseudo-database for Cloudflare Workers using R2 bucket. cloudflare, r2, databases

Flair.ai - The AI design tool for product photoshoots ai, images

unsloth - 5X faster 50% less memory LLM finetuning ai, llm

tldts - JavaScript Library to extract domains, subdomains and public suffixes from complex URIs. tlds, domains

Loco - The one-person framework for Rust for side-projects and startups rust, framework

Rive - Build interactive animations that run anywhere ai, images, animations

Pravatar - Avatar placeholders avatars

Emoji Cloud - A gateway to vector emojis emojis, vector

UI Skeleton Gallery - A free customizable collection of SVG skeleton loader UI elements for design wireframes & mockups. skeletons

TSDiagram - Automatically create diagrams from you interfaces. typescript

culori - Color functions for JavaScript javascript, colors

perfume.js - Web performance library for measuring all performance vitals metrics javascript, performance

standard-webhooks - The Standard Webhooks specification webhooks

Three Decades of HTML - Really? Already three decades? Time flies... html

CSS Wrapped: 2023! - There was lots of traction in css this year! css

UI Library - Lots of references to cool tools ui, links

Patterned.ai - Create nice patterns with AI ai, patterns

fleece - A fast JSON compatible alternative json

Winglang - Wing combines infrastructure and runtime code in one language, enabling developers to stay in their creative flow, and to deliver better software, faster and more securely. infra

done - Self-hosted message queue for Deno Deploy deno, queue

Design Systems Database - All the big design systems design systems

How did I get here? - See all the network points you used to get to this site. network

Timenames - Timenames provides you with a unique name for each second of the day. names

Linux is getting its own Blue Screen of Death - Oh dear /o\ linux, windows

You can create these landing page effects with CSS scroll-driven animations and zero JavaScript 🔥 - Thanks @jh3yy! css

On-Scroll Sliced Text Animation - A scroll-triggered sliced text animation, where segmented elements reunite while scrolling. css

Making noisy SVGs - Adding noise texture with only code svgs