urban weekly #11

A deep dive into CPU requests and limits in Kubernetes - CPU requests and limits, if you want to learn more about it, read it. k8s

You are never taught how to build quality software - Talk about money! qa

Mistral AI, a Paris-based OpenAI rival, closed its $415 million funding round - Valuated at roughly $2 billion ai, mistral

10 GitHub Repos to Improve as a Backend Engineer - Good list nodejs, backend

Under Pressure: Benchmarking Node.js on a Single-Core EC2 - Detailed insights about hammering a nodejs app nodejs, ec2

Bash One-Liners for LLMs - Nothing to add... bash, ai, llm

Announcing Million 3.0 - Next major version of Million.js million.js

Every engineer should understand git reflog - Didn't know it exists ;) git

Announcing SvelteKit 2 - Next major version of SvelteKit svelte

Should you add screenshots to documentation? - Pros and cons for using screenshots in your docs. screenshots, docs

Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer - COBOL!!! cobol

Deleting 50,000 Lines of Code in 3 Days - One of the most joyful tasks in software engineering: deleting code code

pypush - Cross-platform iMessage POC iMessage

All my favorite tracing tools: eBPF, QEMU, Perfetto, new ones I built and more - Great article on tracing tools tracing

10 hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software engineer job - Super nice read job

You don't need JavaScript for that - Super nice article, there's also a native element for a color picker. javascript, html, css

CSS-peeps - Notion like avatar in CSS css, avatars

esm.sh - Fast smart global esm cdn esm, cdn

npm Downloads - Nice tool to check how often versions of npm packages have been downloaded. npm, stats

Rot - Future Proof Secrets Management. secrets

huh - A simple, powerful library for forms and prompts in the terminal cli, terminal

Screely - Upgrade screenshots screenshots

SecureAI Tools - Private and secure AI tools for everyone's productivity. ai

Name Checker - Find out if your project name is taken names

Croner - Schedule jobs in node nodejs, crons

Nuekit - Static site generator websites

Freepik Pikaso - AI drawing ai

Color Lisa - Color palette masterpieces colors

seroval - Stringify JS values javascript

Spacetime - date/time library with a nice landing page! javascript, date, time

AutoAnimate - Add motion to your apps with a single line of code. animations

GitHut 2.0 - A small place to discover languages in Github languages, github

Avartion - Notion-like avatars avatars

Why carousels don't work - Rethinking the Carousel: A User Experience Perspective carousel

The 14 Worst Fonts in the World - I like Comic Sans ;) fonts

trending.design - The best design inspiration on X trends

DS events - Design events summarized events

Who is responsible for the impact of innovative products? - How can it be that a) all products are designed, b) designers want to create something good for the world and c) so many products are total garbage? responsibility

How design works at Supabase - I always like to read such insights. supabase

Learn Morse Code - Little nice website morse

Procedural Planets - Implemented with three.js javascript, three.js

SVG Tutorial - Learn to code SVG images step by step in HTML css, html

Making SVG Loading Spinners: An Interactive Guide - Something everyone needs spinner, svg

Node.js, TypeScript and ESM: it doesn't have to be painful - Thanks Alejandro! nodejs, typescript, esm

You can use mask-composite and some JavaScript to create this pointer proximity following glow border - Thanks jhey! css

A beautiful bit of TypeScript to turn an array into a keyed object - Thanks @mattpocockuk! typescript

You can use custom properties to control motion rate in your transitions and animations - Thanks @jh3yy! css

TIP: add the `data-1p-ignore` attribute to your input field to disable 1Password on it ✖︎ - Thanks Flavio! html, 1password

Prompt engineering - Good introduction in the OpenAI docs ai, prompts